A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Villeneuve, (Susan de)
VILLENEUVE (SUSAN DE), Daughter of Gaspard de Villeneuve, Baron des Arcs, in Provence; married, 1575, Pompey de Grasse, a zealous Royalist.
After his death, she defended her castle courageously against the Duke of Savoy, for three days, and then gave it up only on condition it should not be demolished. She was greatly embarrassed in her circumstances, and obliged to earn by her pen those indulgences which fortune had denied her. She was a romance writer of some talents; she died 1755. The following are her works:
1, Le Phenix Conjugal, 12 mo. 1753; 2, La Jeune Américaine, ou Les Contes Marins, 12 mo. 4 vols. 1743; 3, Les Contes de cette Année, 12 mo. 1744; 4, Les Belles Solitaires, 12 mo. 3 vols. 1745; 5, Le Beau-frere Supposé, 12 mo. 4 vols. 1752; 6, La Jardinière de Vincennes, ou les Caprices de l'Amour et de la Fortune, 12 mo. 5 vols. 1753; 7, Le Juge Prevenu, 12 mo. 1754; 8, Mesdemoiselles de Marsange, 12 mo.; 9, Anecdotes de la Cour d'Alphonse XI. du Nom, Roi de Castille, 12 mo. 4 vols. 1756; 10, L'Homme Heureuse.