{{Infobox writer | image = Lucille Franque - Messageot Charve Family.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = <small>In this painting, the artist, Lucile Messageot (top left, dressed in black) depicted herself with her mother Marie Françoise Clerc (1749-1825) (center, dressed in orange), and her second husband, Judge Claude Antoine Charve (standing, top right), her brother and sister from the first marriage, Xavier Messageot (1782-1844) (top center), and Fanny (bottom right, dressed in white). Bottom center, dressed in yellow, is the young Liberté, future wife of Charles Nodier.</small> | birth_name = Françoise-Cécile Messageot | birth_date = 22 November 1782 | birth_place = Lons-le-Saunier, Franche-Comté, France | death_date = {{d-da|1 April 1851|22 November 1782}} | death_place = Quintigny, Jura, France | occupation = Novelist | period = Early 19th-century | genre = Historical novels | movement = Sentimentalism | spouse = {{marriage|Anne-François Tercy|1814|1824|end=separated}} | relatives = {{hlist|Lucile Messageot (sister)|Marie Mennessier-Nodier (niece)|Charles Nodier (brother-in-law)}} }} '''Fanny Tercy''', {{nee}} '''Françoise-Cécile Messageot''' (22 November 1782, Lons-le-Saunier – 1 April 1851, Quintigny), was a 19th-century French historical novelist.<ref name="Samuels2018">{{cite book |last1=Samuels |first1=Maurice |title=The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France |date=6 August 2018 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-1-5017-2983-6 |page=154 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HJVlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA154 |access-date=20 August 2024 |language=en}}</ref> Along with Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, {{ill|Gabrielle de Paban|fr}}, Sophie Doin, and George Sand, Tercy embraced and transformed sentimentalism during the first half of the 19th century.<ref name="Hajek2017">{{cite web |last1=Hajek |first1=Anne Catherine |title=The Utility of Sentiment: Sentimentalism and Women Writers in Early Nineteenth-Century France - UWDC - UW-Madison Libraries |url=https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ANGEAHKJ2MH4M68R |website=search.library.wisc.edu |access-date=20 August 2024 |date=2017}}</ref>
==Biography== Françoise-Cécile (nickname "Fanny") Messageot, was born on 22 November 1782 in Lons-le-Saunier.<ref name="1frwp">{{cite web |title=Registre des baptêmes, mariages, sépultures de la paroisse Saint-Désiré de Lons-le-Saunier (2 janvier-décembre 1782), cote 3E/530 |url=https://archives39.fr/ark:/36595/l84pzswgk3t2/4c702f42-bb98-4669-be15-5a06750ea01f |website=archives39.fr |publisher=Archives départementales du Jura |access-date=20 August 2024 |language=fr}}</ref> She was the daughter of Jean Joseph Messageot, a cavalry officer who became a postmaster, and Marie-Françoise Clerc.<ref name="2frwp">{{cite book |last1=Monnier |first1=Désiré |title=Souvenirs d'un octogénaire de province / par Désiré Monnier |date=1871 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qrxPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA421 |pages=421–26 |access-date=20 August 2024 |language=fr}}</ref> She had an older sister, Lucile, who became a painter, and a twin brother, François-Xavier. Her mother remarried Claude-Antoine Charve, a judge at the Lons-le-Saunier court. From this second marriage, Louis, Tercy's half-brother, and Liberté-Constitution-Désirée (1790–1856), a half-sister who married Charles Nodier, were born. Tercy spent her childhood in Lons-le-Saunier.
Judge Charve was imprisoned in 1793 at the Cordeliers prison where he met Anne-François Tercy (1775–1841), playwright and "man of letters",<ref name="Weiss1991">{{cite book |last1=Weiss |first1=Charles |title=1834-1837 |date=1991 |publisher=Presses Univ. Franche-Comté |isbn=978-2-251-60420-6 |page=225 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MJgAO1FoL4C&pg=PA225 |language=fr}}</ref> also imprisoned; he was Fanny's future husband.<ref name="3frwp">{{cite news |title=Fanny Tercy, une romancière de Quintigny |url=https://www.leprogres.fr/jura/2013/10/26/fanny-tercy-une-romanciere-de-quintigny |access-date=20 August 2024 |work=www.leprogres.fr |date=26 October 2013 |language=FR-fr}}</ref> They married on 11 September 1814. After the wedding, the couple went to Paris and were very close to Charles Nodier. He encouraged Fanny Tercy to write. Unable to stand her husband any longer, she left him in 1824. To prepare for her ''La Dame d'Oliferne'' (1829), Tercy walked from the town of Arinthod to the old Oliferne castle.<ref name="2frwp" /> She regularly attended the salon held by Charles Nodier and met many writers of the time there: "... Fanny de Tercy, in her corner, had already finished her work: she would not stop knitting while Musset, Hugo, Vigny or Nerval were recounting their verses".<ref name="4frwp">Vartier, Jean, ''Fanfan-la-Conspiration ou La vie aventureuse de Charles Nodier'', Nancy, 1986 (in French)</ref>
==Later life and death== During the reign of Louis-Philippe, she obtained a pension of a "woman of letters".<ref name="2frwp" /> From 1839, Fanny Tercy returned to Quintigny, where she died on 1 April 1851.<ref name="5frwp">{{cite book |title=Registre des décès de la commune de Quintigny (1823-1852), cote 3E/6287 |publisher=Archives départementales du Jur |page=145 |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchives39.fr%2Fark%3A%2F36595%2F8vfjbsw3qmh4%2F38bd32bd-dc70-4377-83ae-f061882bcd39#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url |access-date=20 August 2024}}</ref>
== Selected works == * ''Deux nouvelles françaises'' : ''Marie Bolden, ou la Folle de Cayeux et Cécile de Renneville '', Paris, Th. Desoer, 1816 * ''Louise de Sénancourt '' Paris, Maradan, 1817{{efn|The name of the author is only very partially indicated; "Mme de T." author of Cécile de Renneville and Marie Bolden". Éric Paquin makes an analysis of this incomplete indication in his thesis of letters, from 1998, ''The feminine epistolary narrative at the turn of the Enlightenment and at the beginning of the 19th century (1793-1837): adaptation and renewal of a narrative form."''.}} * ''Isaure et Montigny'', Paris, 1818 * ''Six nouvelles'', 2 vol., Paris, Galliot, 1821 * ''L’Ermite du mont Saint-Valentin, ou Histoire des amours de la dame de Martigues et du chevalier Roger de Parthenay,'' 2 vol. Paris, Béchet aîné, 1821 * ''Contes moraux à l'usage des enfants'', Gallica, 1828 * ''La Dame d'Oliferne'', Paris, Levavasseur, 1829 * ''Chroniques franc-comtoises. La Tour de Dramelay'', Paris, C. Vimont, 1831 * ''Nouvelles chroniques francomtoises. Le Juif et la sorcière''. Paris, C. Vimont, 1833 * ''Historiettes et conversations morales, dédiées à Mennessier Nodier'', Paris, Dufey, 1834 * ''Chalain et les enfants de M. Aubert'', 1834 * ''Emmerande la bienheureuse'', 1834 * ''Pierre et Marcellin'', 1836
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