Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier née Zofia Tyzenhauz (; 1790 – 28 May 1878) was a Polish-Lithuanian novelist, writing in French. She was a daughter of and Marianna Przezdziecka,. In 1818, she married Antoine Louis Octave de Choiseul-Gouffier, a French count, whose father emigrated during the French Revolution, and owner of Plateliai manor. She became one of the first female writers in Lithuania, after Ursule Radziwill and Ona Radziwill-Mostowska. Her novels, mostly historical, are inspired from the lives of women in contemporary Lithuanian nobility. She was buried on cemetery des Champeaux in Montmorency.
Publications Le Polonois à St. Domingue ou La jeune Créole, Warsaw, 1818 Barbe Radziwill. Roman historique, Paris, 1820 Vladislas Jagellon et Hedwige, ou la réunion de la Lithuanie à la Pologne. Nouvelle historique, Paris, 1824 Le nain politque. Roman historique, Paris 1827 Mémoires historiques sur l'empereur Alexandre et la cour de Russie, Paris 1829 Halina Ogińska ou les Suédois en Pologne, Paris 1839 Réminiscences sur l'empereur Alexandre Ier et sur l'empereur Napoléon Ier, Paris, 1862
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