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Madame de Salm-Dyck

  • “We like to moralize when we are old because it makes a merit of many deprivations which have become a necessity.”

    • Madame de Salm-Dyck,
    • in J.R. Solly, A Cynic's Breviary ()

Madame de Salm-Dyck, French writer, women's rights activist

(1767 - 1845)

Full name: Constance-Marie de Théis, princess de Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck. Also known as Constance Pipelet, la comtesse de Salm-Dyck.