Marie-Anne de Bovet
Marie-Anne de Bovet | |
|---|---|
| Born | 12 February 1855 |
| Died | 25 February 1943 (aged 88) |
| Occupation | Explorer, writer |
| Language | French English |
| Nationality | French |
| Citizenship | France |
| Spouse | Marquis de Bois-Hébert |
Marie-Anne de Bovet (12 February 1855 – 25 February 1943) was a French writer. From 1893 to 1930, she published 35 novels, in addition to other works. Her last work was written in 1935 when she was 80 years old.
Biography
Marie-Anne de Bovet was born in Metz, France. She was the daughter of General Bovet. She married the Marquis de Bois-Hébert but she wrote under her maiden name.
Her writing career began in 1889 by publishing travelogues. Her work appeared in several magazines and newspapers in French and English. She was bilingual. As early as 1888, Bovet frequented the salon of Juliette Adam. She wrote literary criticism in La Nouvelle Revue, and traveled to Ireland on behalf of La République Française, a Gambetta newspaper. She wrote for La Vie Parisienne and the feminist newspaper, La Fronde, founded in 1887 by Marguerite Durand. Here, her articles included "Housewife or Harlot" (9 December 1897), where she attacked Maupassant and Proudhon's speeches on women, and "The Eternal Feminine" (22 December 1897), where she rejected the categorization of women. Bovet protested against misogynist prejudice and defended women's intelligence. During the Dreyfus Affair, she wrote for La Libre Parole, a strongly anti-Semitic newspaper. Though she traveled widely, she wrote mainly on Ireland (three books) and Algeria; she also visited Scotland, Greece and Poland.
She published her last work, La Grande Pitié du Sahara, in 1935[1]. One year later, she sold her house in Gien and its furnitures, including numerous autographed first editions[2]. She spent time in Algiers in her later years, up to at least 1939[3]. Her last known address is in Neuilly-sur-Seine. She died in Villejuif hospital on 25 February 1943[4].
Awards
During her lifetime, she was selected for the Louise Bourbonnaud Prize, which was a cash award established in Paris by Bourbonnaud to be given annually to a French explorer.[5][6]
Selected works
Travelogues
- Lettres d’Irlande, Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1889
- Trois mois en Irlande, article illustré extrait du Tour du Monde, Hachette, 1891
- La Jeune Grèce, Société française d’édition d’art L.-H. May, 1897 - Prix Kastner-Boursault de l'Académie française.
- L’Écosse. Souvenirs et impressions de voyage, Hachette, 1898
- Cracovie, H. Laurens, Paris, 1910
- L’Algérie, E. de Boccard, Paris, 1920 - Prix Montyon de l'Académie française.
- Alger-Djelfa, Laghouat-Ghardaïa et l’Heptapole de M’Zab, Imprimerie Algérienne, 1924
- De Paris aux dunes du Souf et retour en vingt-et-un jours, Georges Lacan, 1924
- Monographie du tapis algérien'', édité par le Gouvernement général de l’Algérie, 1930
- Le désert apprivoisé, Randonnées au Sahara'', Nouvelles Éditions Argo, Paris, 1933 - Prix Montyon de l'Académie française.
- La Grande Pitié du Sahara, Plon, 1935
- Notice sur les tapis algériens et autres industries indigènes, Imprimerie E. Pfister, ?
Novels
- Terre d’Emeraude, Ollendorff, 1893
- Confessions d’une fille de trente ans, Lemerre, 1895
- Roman de femmes, Lemerre, 1896
- Confessions conjugales, Lemerre, 1896
- Partie du pied gauche, Lemerre, 1897
- Parole jurée, Lemerre, 1897
- Par orgueil, Lemerre, 1898
- Petites rosseries, Lemerre, 1898
- Pris sur le vif, Lemerre, 1899
- Marionnettes, Lemerre, 1899
- Courte folie, Lemerre, 1901
- Monsieur Victor, roman publié par Le Monde Moderne, Albert Quantin, Paris, 1901
- Maîtresse royale, Lemerre, 1901
- La Cadette, Armand Colin, 1901
- La Belle Sabine, Lemerre, 1902
- Ballons rouges, Lemerre, 1903
- Autour de l’étendard, Lemerre, 1904
- Ame d’Argile, Lemerre, 1904
- Contre l’impossible, Lemerre, 1905
- Plus fort que la Vie, Lemerre, 1905
- Noces blanches, Lemerre, 1906
- Le Beau Fernand, Hachette, 1906 - Prix Montyon de l'Académie française.
- La repentie, Lemerre, 1907
- Et l’Amour triomphe, Nilsson, 1907
- Après le Divorce, Lemerre, 1908
- La jolie Princesse, Lemerre, 1908
- La folle Passion, Lemerre, 1909
- La Dame à l’oreille de velours, Lemerre, 1911
- La Terre refleurira, Lemerre, 1913
- Le Fils de l’autre, Lemerre, 1914
- La Dernière de sa Race, Lemerre, 1924
- La Dame d’Antibes, Lemerre, 1927
- Veuvage blanc, édition de la Mode nationale, 1930
- L’Homme rouge'', Nilsson, date?
- Défends ta femme contre la tentation'', Nilsson, date?
References
- ^ Lançon, Daniel (2024). "Les femmes du Sahara algérien : Rencontres, représentations et discours dans les récits viatiques et de séjour féminins français (1860-1900)". Viatica. 11. doi:10.4000/viatica.3273.
- ^ "Marie-Anne de Bovet". Le Nouvelliste d'Indochine (in French): 2. 1936-09-05. Retrieved 2026-01-28.
- ^ "« Le Train pour Venise » à l'A.D.F." L'Écho d'Alger (in French): 4. 1939-03-23. Retrieved 2026-01-28.
- ^ "Transcription de l'acte de décès (avec date et lieu de naissance) à Villejuif, à la mairie de Neuilly-sur-Seine, n° 21, cote 1E_NUM_NEU_D1943_1, vue 4/22". Haut-de-Seine Archives (in French). Retrieved 2026-01-28.
- ^ Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York (Public domain ed.). American Geographical Society of New York. 1891. pp. 502–.
- ^ "The WS Society Annual Exhibition 2021 : Room 2". wssociety. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
Sources
- (in French) Marie Anne de Bovet, petite notice biographique, sans nom d’auteur, date et éditeur, numéro de notice : 107502526 à la BNUS
- (in French) Han Ryner, Le Massacre des Amazones : études critiques sur deux cents bas-bleus contemporains : Mesdames Adam, Sarah Bernhardt, Marie-Anne de Bovet, Bradamante, Jeanne Chauvin, Alphonse Daudet…, Paris, Chamuel, 19--?, p. 300