Marie Gasquet (1872–1960) was a French regionist writer from

Provence Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bor ...

Biography

Early life

Marie Gasquet was born in

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (; Provençal Occitan: ''Sant Romieg de Provença'' in classical and ''Sant Roumié de Prouvènço'' in Mistralian norms) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Southern France. L ...

Bouches-du-Rhône Bouches-du-Rhône ( , , ; oc, Bocas de Ròse ; "Mouths of the Rhône") is a department in Southern France. It borders Vaucluse to the north, Gard to the west and Var to the east. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the south. Its prefecture and ...

in 1872. Her father, Marius Girard, was a Provençal poet. Her godfather was

Frédéric Mistral Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral (; oc, Josèp Estève Frederic Mistral, 8 September 1830 – 25 March 1914) was a French writer of Occitan literature and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel ...

Career

She moved to Paris where she worked for Flammarion and became a successful novelist. She was hailed as queen of the Felibrige in 1892.Biography from the Saint-Remy-de-Provence websit

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Personal life

She was married to

Joachim Gasquet Joachim Gasquet (31 March 1873 – 6 May 1921) was a French author, poet, and art critic. Biography Early life Joachim Gasquet was born in 1873 in Aix-en-Provence. Career He was an author, poet and art critic. He is best known for his writing a ...

, a friend of

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically d ...

's.Sidney Geist, ''Interpreting Cézanne'',

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, 1989, p. 2

/ref> She died in 1960.

Bibliography

*''Une Enfance provençale'' * ''Sainte Jeanne d'Arc ...'' * ''Ce que les femmes disent des femmes'' * ''Tante la Capucine'' * ''Une Fille de saint François'' * ''La Fête-Dieu'' * ''Capharnaüm'' * ''Le Métier de Pénélope'' * ''Sainte Bernadette de Lourdes'' * ''La vénérable Anne-Madeleine Remuzat''

References

1872 births 1960 deaths People from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence 20th-century French women writers 20th-century French novelists {{France-novelist-19thC-stub