Paule Joseph Marie Eugénie Charlotte Régnier (19 June 1888 in
Fontainebleau (
Seine-et-Marne
Seine-et-Marne () is a department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. Named after the rivers Seine and Marne, it is the region's largest department with an area of 5,915 square kilometres (2,284 square miles); it roughly covers its ...
) – 1 December 1950 in
Meudon
Meudon () is a municipality in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is in the département of Hauts-de-Seine. It is located from the center of Paris. The city is known for many historic monuments and some extraordinary trees. One of t ...
(
Hauts-de-Seine) was a French writer, laureate of the
Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
Le Grand Prix du Roman is a French literary award, created in 1914, and given each year by the Académie française. Along with the Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French litera ...
in 1934.
Biography
Paule Regnier grew up in Versailles, where her father, a career officer, had been sent in 1890, and where he left his family when the obligations of the military profession caused him to change his residence. After the death of her father in 1902, her mother moved with her and her two older sisters to Paris. After the marriage of these, Paule Regnier remained alone with her mother until the death of the latter in 1926.
Works
*1913: ''Octave''
*1924: ''La Vivante Paix''
*1929: ''Heureuse Faute''
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*1919: ''Marcelle, faible femme''
*1930: ''Le Roi Mage de Maillezais''
*1931: ''Petite et Nadie''
*1933
''L'Abbaye d'Évolayne''
– Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
Le Grand Prix du Roman is a French literary award, created in 1914, and given each year by the Académie française. Along with the Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French litera ...
*1936: ''Cherchez la joie''
*1941: ''Tentation''
*1942: ''L'Expérience d'Alain''
*1945: ''Ce qui fait le bonheur''
*1946: ''L'Aventure d'Hermione Capulet''
*1947: ''La Face voilée'', essay on pain, followed by ''Plaintes dans la nuit''
*1949: ''Les Filets de la mer''
;Posthumous publications
*1953: ''Journal'', foreword by
*1956: ''Fêtes et Nuages'', chronique d'une enfance
*1956: ''Lettres''
References
External links
Paule Régnier
on the site of the Académie française
Paule Régnier
on Éditions Gallimard
Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003 it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles.
Founded by Ga ...
Paule Régnier
on ''Nuit Blanche''
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20th-century French non-fiction writers
20th-century French women writers
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners
People from Fontainebleau
Writers from Versailles
1888 births
1950 deaths
1950 suicides
Suicides in France