Gomez, Marie‐Angélique Poission, dame Gabriel de

Gomez, Marie‐Angélique Poission, dame Gabriel de (1684–1770),
French writer. Married to an impoverished Spanish nobleman, she tried to live by her pen and published more than 50 volumes, including poetry, a play, and particularly novels. Her frame narrative Les Journées amusantes (Amusing Days, 1722–31) is unusual in that its storytellers are intent not so much on displaying their worldly graces as their bookish erudition through their tales and games. One of the tales in this collection, Histoire de Jean de Calais (Story of Jean de Calais, 1723) rewrites the folkloric tale type AT 506A.

Lewis C. Seifert