Marie-Elisabeth Polier (1742-1817), known as the Chanoinesse of Heiliggrabben, was a Swiss journalist and translator.
Life
Marie-Elisabeth Polier was born in 1742 in Lausanne. She was the daughter of Georges Polier, a colonel in the service of Hanover, and bilingual in French and German. Her sister Jeanne-Louise-Antoinette (or Eléonore) Polier also pursued literary activity, as did two other cousins: Isabelle de Montolieu and Isabelle's sister Nanette.
Polier took up a religious vocation, as Chanoinesse (canoness) of the Reformed Order of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Prussia.
In the 1790s Polier edited the literary periodical Journal littéraire de Lausanne. (Sources vary as to the precise timespan of this editorship: either 1794 to 1798, or 1793 to 1800.)
