Agnès de La Gorce (February 8, 1895,

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— July 7, 1976,

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) was a French writer and historian.

Biography

Agnès de La Gorce is the daughter of the historian and academician

Pierre de La Gorce Pierre de La Gorce (19 June 1846, Vannes – 2 January 1934) was a French magistrate, lawyer and historian, as well as a member of the Académie française. He wrote books about the Second French Republic, the Second French Empire and the Fren ...

, to whom she dedicated a work in 1948, and of Marie Mailhard de la Couture; she is the aunt of the journalist and historian Paul-Marie de La Gorce. In 1959, after having been distinguished several times by the

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, she received the Gustave Le Mallais-Larivière prize for her works. She was a member of the

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jury from 1945 until her death in 1976.

Publications

* ''Robert Hugh Benson, prêtre et romancier, 1871-1914'', Paris, Plon, 1928, 301 p. (Juteau-Duvigneaux award from the French Academy in 1929) * ''Les douloureux débuts de Francis Thompson'', 1931 * ''Un pauvre qui trouva la joie. Saint Benoît Labre'', 1933 * ''Francis Thompson et les poètes catholiques d’Angleterre'', Paris, Plon, 1933, 261 p. (Bordin award from the French Academy) * ''Wesley, maître d'un peuple (1703-1791)'', 1940 (Eugène Carrière award from the French Academy in 1941) * ''Saint Benoît Labre : le pèlerin de la joie'' , Paris, Éditions franciscaines, 1946 ; traduction en anglais : ''Saint Benedict Joseph Labre'' (trad. Rosemary Sheed), New York, 1952 * ''Une vocation d’historien : Pierre de La Gorce'', Paris, Plon, 1948, 225 p. * ''Camisards et dragons du Roi'' , Paris, Albin Michel, 1951, (Albéric-Rocheron award from the French Academy) * ''Le vrai visage de Fénelon'', Paris, Hachette, 1958 * ''Sainte Chantal'', Tours, Mame, 1961, 97 p.

References

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