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Anne Marie Nouel de Tourville de Buzonnière, who wrote as Anne de Tourville (26 August 1910 – September 2004), was a 20th-century French woman of letters.
''Mer et Littérature, quand un bateau porte le nom d'un livre''
20th-century French women writers 20th-century French non-fiction writers Prix Femina winners Writers from Brittany People from Ille-et-Vilaine 1910 births 2004 deaths {{France-writer-stub
Anne Marie Nouel de Tourville de Buzonnière, who wrote as Anne de Tourville (26 August 1910 – September 2004), was a 20th-century French woman of letters.
Biography
The daughter of Jean de Tourville and his wife Marie née Lesage de la Haye, she was born in the village ofBais, Ille-et-Vilaine
Bais (; br, Baez; Gallo: ''Baès'') is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. The writer Anne de Tourville (1910–2004), winner of the 1951 Prix Femina, was born in Bais.
Population
Inhabitants of B ...
, and spent her childhood in Morieux
Morieux (; br, Morieg; Gallo: ''Morioec'') is a former commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Lamballe-Armor.Saint-Servan
Saint-Servan (often abbreviated as St. Servan; br, Sant-Servan) is a town of western France, in Brittany, situated 2 miles from the ferry port of Saint-Malo. It is renowned for its shops and restaurants.
History
In June 1758, during the Seven Ye ...
. Around 1966, she settled in Dinard
Dinard (; br, Dinarzh, ; Gallo: ''Dinard'') is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department, Brittany, northwestern France.
Dinard is on the Côte d'Émeraude of Brittany. Its beaches and mild climate make it a holiday destination, and this ...
, which she did not leave until the late 1990s to return to her native village. She lived there peacefully until her death in September 2004 in Vitré in the home of the children of friends who had helped her and her family during the Second World War.
Her novels, with rural settings such as "Jabadao", which earned her the Prix Femina
The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine '' La Vie heureuse'' (today known as '' Femina''). The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. They reward French-language works writte ...
, or maritime settings such as "Matelot Gaël", are set in a Brittany half real and half imagined.
Writing was not her only talent: she exhibited her miniature paintings at the Salon des artistes français
The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...
.
Works
*1944: ''Les gens de par ici'', Prix interallié de Bretagne *1951: ''Jabadao'', éditions Delamain et Boutelleau, Prix Femina *1953: ''Matelot Gaël'' *1958: ''Femmes de la mer''Bibliography
* ''Anne de Tourville, ou le magique sillage de son rêve'', ''Le Pays de Dinan''. Patrick Delon. Tome XIV. Bibliothèque municipale. Dinan. 1994. * ''La Mort en Bretagne chez Pierre Loti et Anne de Tourville'', ''Mémoires de la '' CXXIX, 2000, pp. 123–135. * ''"Jabadao" d'Anne de Tourville: la genèse d'un roman authentiquement breton'', ''Revue française'' n°12, December 2001, pp. 55–68.External links
''Mer et Littérature, quand un bateau porte le nom d'un livre''
20th-century French women writers 20th-century French non-fiction writers Prix Femina winners Writers from Brittany People from Ille-et-Vilaine 1910 births 2004 deaths {{France-writer-stub