| Surname | Benoît | |
| First Name | Antoinette | |
| Gender | female | |
| Place of birth | Geneva | |
| Place of death | Geneva | |
| Year of birth | 1787 | |
| Year of death | 1845 | |
| Profession | governess | |
| Religion | Protestant | |
| Place(s) of activity | Geneva, Lausanne | |
| Century | 19 | |
| Biographical information |
Daughter of Jean-André-Marc Benoît and Catherine-Pernette De Lord. Following her mother's death she worked in Lausanne (1812 to 1819) as governess to the family of César Constant de Rebecque. In 1823 she married Bernard Naef and gave birth to a son, Eugène-François-Bernard. |
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| Title | Recueil des journaux de Mlle Benoist | |
| Genre / Art |
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| Additional genre details | Educational record | |
| Period writen | 6 June 1812 - 11 April 1819 | |
| Period covered | 6 June 1812 - 11 April 1819 | |
| Format / Language | Autograph, French | |
| Physical description | 12 notebooks 12.5 x 20 cm, between 108 and 182 pages a notebook, the last one numbers 140 pages but only 125 are written. |
| Content | Like her predecessor, Clémentine Witel, Antoinette writes every evening an account of what her pupil Cécile did during the day. As such, her diary records their lessons, games, visits, social interactions, parties, walks, dances etc. In this way it provides a lot of information about the daily life and education of a young woman at the beginning of the nineteenth century. |
| Place of deposit | ACV |
| Classification | P Constant Ci 1 |
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| Transcription | |
| Restrictions | |
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| Secondary litterature |
Moret Petrini Sylvie, "Expérimenter la tenue d’un journal 'éducatif', Mademoiselle Wittel et le journal de Cécile Constant", ZAK, Band 67, Heft 4, 2010, p. 296-302. "Entre 'jeu de poupée' et 'petite société', l’enfance de Cécile Constant sous les yeux de ses gouvernantes", Annales Benjamin Constant, n° 34, 2009, p. 175-190. "Le 'journal de Cécile Constant' : miroir d’une éducation éclairée dans l’élite vaudoise au début du XIXe siècle", Revue historique vaudoise, t. 117, 2009, p. 75-87. |
| Other sources | Contract and reference letter (ACV, P Constant Ci 2-4). |
| Related documents |
Diary of Cécile Constant (1809-1811) |
| Author | SMP |
