COTTIN, MARIE (called SOPHIE) (1770-1807), French novelist, née Risteau, was born in Paris in 1770. Elisabeth, ou les exiles de Siberie, her last and most famous tale, was published in i8o6. Its subject was treated later with an admirable simplicity by Xavier de Maistre. She died at Champlan (Seine et Oise) on April 25, 1807.
A complete edition of her works, with a notice by A. Petitot, was published, in five volumes, in 1817.