Anne-Marguerite Petit du Noyer

Anne-Marguerite du Noyer was an early 18th-century woman journalist. Her reports of the negotiations leading to the Peace of Utrecht were read all over Europe and admired for the distinction with which she reported on scandal and gossip. Born a Protestant, she converted to Catholicism in the years of the Huguenot persecution. In 1686 she married Guillaume du Noyer. In 1701 she converted back to Calvinism and had to leave France. She first moved to Geneva, then to The Hague. Among her famous visitors was Voltaire in 1713.