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Pacault was the daughter of a rhetoric professor,[1] Désirée Pacault was born in Beaune on the 11th pluviôse of the Year 6.[2]
Based at the Hôtel d'Aligre, at 123 rue Saint-Honoré in Paris, in 1825 she sold the book Le Participe français mis à la portée de tous les âges, written by the schoolteacher A. Riby.[3] and reissued in 1829[4] She obtained a bookseller's patent on 18 July 1828 and published in 1831 the prospectus Écho littéraire, album poétique.[5]
Member in 1831 of the Athénée des arts, sciences et belles lettres de Paris, in 1832 of the Société d'enseignement universel, she intervened on 29 October 1832 during a literary evening of the Athénée des arts to read one of her texts entitled "L'Inspiration".[6]
In 1837, she wrote a poem in honour of the marriage of Duke of Orléans and Hélène of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.[7] In December, she replaced Théodore Poupin as editor-in-chief of La Capricieuse, journal des modes parisiennes, where she gave more space to reviews of shows.[8] In 1838, she was a literary critic for the magazine La France littéraire.
Member in 1839 of the academies of sciences in Vienna and of letters in Florence,[9] in 1840 of the Academy of Sciences of Siena (first female member), in 1846 of the Society of Artist Musicians of Paris,[2] she obtained in 1842 a silver medal from the Society Racinienne[10] for a cantata in honour of Racine.[11]Freemason, she set some of her poems to music, such as "C'était les ciels", which she dedicated to the lodge Les Amis fidèles de l'Orient de Paris.[12]·[13] She also composed art songs ("mélodies" on poems by Alphonse de Lamartine and Jean Reboul.[2]
An ode to Luís de Camões that she wrote, set to music by George O'Kelly, was sung at a literary and artistic festival organized in Paris on 10 June 1880, for the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of the Portuguese poet.[14][15]
