Louisa Henrietta de Rivarol
Louisa Henrietta de Rivarol born Louisa Flint (1749 – 1821) was a French translator of Scottish descent. Life Rivarol was born in 1749 in Remiremont. Her father, Mather Flint, was a Scot who had emigrated to France when he was eleven with his uncle George Flint. George was a well known printer and writer loyal to the Jacobite cause. He settled in Paris in 1734 and around the time of her birth and later published books about English grammar and language guides. In 1780 she married the French writer and translator Antoine de Rivarol. He claimed to be an aristocrat. She had herself translated a number of works. She translated a Shakespearean play including some notes by Samuel Johnson. Johnson had written to her on 31 March 1769 in French to thank her for the nice things she had said about him. The play may have been the Merchant of Venice. Johnson mentioned his friend Sir Joshua Reynold and his sister. Sir Joshua Reynolds was in Paris later that year and he went to see her parents. Antoine Rivarol abandoned her after a short relationship which resulted in the birth of a son, Raphael. To her husband's embarrassment, Lespagnier, a