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Faut pas jouer avec la douleur (1853) are among the best-known of her romances; and her dramatic pieces in prose and verse include L'Ecole des journalistes (1840), Judith (1843), Cleopatre (1847), Lady Tartufe (1853), and the one-act comedies, C'est la faute du mari (1851), La Joie fait peur (1854), Le Chapeau d'un horloger (1854) and Une Femme qui deteste son mari, which did not appear till after the author's death. In the literary society of her time Madame Girardin exercised no small personal influence, and among the frequenters of her drawing-room were Theophile Gautier and Balzac, Alfred de Musset and Victor Hugo. She died on the 29th of June 1855. Her collected works were published in six volumes (1860-1861).

See Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, t. iii.; G. de Molenes, "Les Femmes pokes," in Revue des deux mondes (July 1842); Taxile Delord, Les Matinees litteraires (1860); L'Esprit de Madame Girardin, avec une preface par M. Lamartine (1862); G. d'Heilly, Madame de Girardin, sa vie et ses oeuvres (1868); Imbert de Saint Amand, Mme de Girardin (1875).