Louise Swanton Belloc

Louise Swanton Belloc (1 October 1796 – 6 November 1881), née Anne-Louise Chassériau Swanton, was a French writer and translator of Irish descent best known for introducing a number of important works of English literature to France. She is also remembered as a strong proponent of women's education, and was awarded a gold medal by the Institut in her twenties for her literary accomplishments. Marc-Antoine Jullien de Paris, the distinguished founder of the Revue encyclopédique (for which Swanton wrote), once referred to her as "a young person of brilliant talents".