"Colette Colette (; Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French mime, actress, journalist and novelist, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Colette was widely known for her 1944 novella ""Gigi"" (1944), which subsequently was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name. The writer was the subject of numerous biographies, songs, and films, including 2018's ""Colette"". Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born on January 28, 1873, to war hero and tax collector Jules-Joseph Colette and his wife Adèle Eugénie Sidonie (""Sido""), ""née"" Landoy, in the village of"
"poverty and oblivion in Paris in 1917. Georges de Peyrebrune Mathilde-Marie Georgina Élisabeth de Peyrebrune (also known as, George de Peyrebrune or Georges de Peyrebrune, and Judicis de la Mirandole; pseudonyms Hunedelle, Marco, and Petit Bob; 18 April 1841 – 1917) was a key French proto-feminist Belle Époque writer of popular novels. She was ""one of the most widely read women in France"", and one of the country's most popular women novelists. Born in Pierrebrune, a hamlet of Sainte-Orse, Dordogne in 1841, she transformed ""Pierrebrune"" to ""Peyrebrune"", making it her family name. She was the daughter of Françoise Thérèse Céline"
"Marius Gabriel Marius Gabriel (born 13 November 1954 in Mafikeng, South Africa) is a historical novelist. He is the author of The Redcliffe Sisters series, The Designer, The Ocean Liner, The Parisians and a number of other bestsellers. He has homes in Cairo and Lincolnshire. In 2018, he and Kerry Wilkinson became the first men using their own names to win a RoNA Award in the organisation's 58-year history. Gabriel won for his historical novel, The Designer. Marius Gabriel Cipolla studied Shakespeare in the University of Newcastle in northern England. To finance his postgraduate research, he began writing romance fiction."
"Georges de Peyrebrune Mathilde-Marie Georgina Élisabeth de Peyrebrune (also known as, George de Peyrebrune or Georges de Peyrebrune, and Judicis de la Mirandole; pseudonyms Hunedelle, Marco, and Petit Bob; 18 April 1841 – 1917) was a key French proto-feminist Belle Époque writer of popular novels. She was ""one of the most widely read women in France"", and one of the country's most popular women novelists. Born in Pierrebrune, a hamlet of Sainte-Orse, Dordogne in 1841, she transformed ""Pierrebrune"" to ""Peyrebrune"", making it her family name. She was the daughter of Françoise Thérèse Céline Judicis and Georges Johnston, a wealthy local"
"He sold his first novel to Mills & Boon, published in 1983 under the female pseudonym Madeleine Ker. He left his academic pursuits to become a full-time writer. Marius Gabriel Marius Gabriel (born 13 November 1954 in Mafikeng, South Africa) is a historical novelist. He is the author of The Redcliffe Sisters series, The Designer, The Ocean Liner, The Parisians and a number of other bestsellers. He has homes in Cairo and Lincolnshire. In 2018, he and Kerry Wilkinson became the first men using their own names to win a RoNA Award in the organisation's 58-year history. Gabriel won for"
"Sophie Ristaud Cottin Sophie Cottin (22 March 1770 - 25 August 1807) was a French writer whose novels were popular in the 19th century, and were translated into several different languages. Born Marie Sophie Ristaud (sometimes spelt Risteau) in March 1770 at Tonneins, she was not yet twenty when she married her first husband, Jean-Paul-Marie Cottin, a banker. She wrote several romantic and historical novels including ""Elizabeth; or, the Exiles of Siberia"" (""Elisabeth ou les Exilés de Sibérie"" 1806), a ""wildly romantic but irreproachably moral tale"", according to Nuttall's Encyclopaedia. She also published ""Claire d'Albe"" (1799), ""Malvina"" (1801), ""Amélie de"
"Anne Golon Anne Golon (17 December 1921 – 14 July 2017) was a French author, better known to English-speaking readers as Sergeanne Golon. She was most known for a series of novels about a heroine called Angelique. Born Simone Changeux in Toulon, a port in south-eastern France, was the daughter of Pierre Changeux, a scientist and a captain in the French Navy. She was interested in painting and writing from early childhood and published her first novel, ""The Country from behind my Eyes"", when she was 18 under the pen name Joëlle Danterne. During World War II she travelled via"
"Fortuné du Boisgobey Fortuné Hippolyte Auguste Abraham-Dubois (11 September 1821 – 26 February 1891), under the ""nom de plume"" Fortuné du Boisgobey, was a French novelist. Fortuné du Boisgobey was born at Granville (Manche), and graduated from the Lycée Saint-Louis. He served as paymaster to the Army of Africa through several campaigns in Algeria from 1844 to 1848. His parents were wealthy, yet at forty or upwards, he took to writing. In 1843, using the name Fortuné Abraham-Dubois, he made his literary debut in the ""Journal d'Avranches"" with a series entitled ""Lettres de Sicile"" recounting a voyage he had taken"
"Lisa Gabriele Lisa Gabriele is a Canadian novelist, television producer and journalist. She was the show runner for ""Dragons' Den"". 2006-2012. Gabriele is the author of ""Tempting Faith DiNapoli"" and ""The Almost Archer Sisters"", both national bestsellers. 'Tempting Faith DiNapoli' will be developed as a TV series by Insight Productions. Her upcoming novel, The Winters, a reimagining of Daphne DuMaurier's ""Rebecca"", will be published in Canada and the U.S. in the fall of 2018. In February 2013, it was revealed on ""The Current"" that Lisa Gabriele is the true identity of the pseudonym L. Marie Adeline, author of the erotic"
"Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau Sibylle Aimée Marie-Antoinette Gabrielle de Riquetti de Mirabeau, Comtesse de Martel de Janville (16 August 1849 – 28 June 1932) was a French writer who wrote under the pseudonym Gyp. She was born at the château de Coëtsal near Plumergat, in the ""département"" of the Morbihan, in Brittany, her father, Joseph-Arundel de Riquetti, comte de Mirabeau, 1820–1860, being the great-grandson of Victor de Riquetti, marquis de Mirabeau (""Mirabeau Père""), noted 18th-century economist, and grandnephew of Honoré Mirabeau the celebrated revolutionary orator. In view of her later opinions, it is interesting to remember that Sibylle was actually"
"Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (28 November 1685 – 29 December 1755) was a French author influenced by Madame d'Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, and various précieuse writers. Villeneuve is particularly noted for her original story of ""La Belle et la Bête"", which is the oldest known variant of the fairy tale ""Beauty and the Beast"". Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve was born and died in Paris, but belonged to a powerful Protestant family from La Rochelle. She was the descendant of the notable Amos Barbot who was a Peer of France and a Deputy of the Estates General in 1614. His"
"http://www.lisagabriele.com https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090108.wbkarcher10/BNStory/globebooks/ http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/books/great_novel_full_of_surprises_full_of_love.html Lisa Gabriele Lisa Gabriele is a Canadian novelist, television producer and journalist. She was the show runner for ""Dragons' Den"". 2006-2012. Gabriele is the author of ""Tempting Faith DiNapoli"" and ""The Almost Archer Sisters"", both national bestsellers. 'Tempting Faith DiNapoli' will be developed as a TV series by Insight Productions. Her upcoming novel, The Winters, a reimagining of Daphne DuMaurier's ""Rebecca"", will be published in Canada and the U.S. in the fall of 2018. In February 2013, it was revealed on ""The Current"" that Lisa Gabriele is the true identity of the pseudonym L. Marie Adeline, author"
"and novels under the pen names Saintine, X.B. Saintine, Joseph Xavier Saintine, Xavier. X. B. Saintine Xavier Boniface Saintine (10 July 1798 – 21 January 1865) was a French dramatist and novelist. He was born Joseph Xavier Boniface in Paris in 1798. In 1823, he produced a volume of poetry in the manner of the Romanticists, entitled ""Poèmes, odes, épîtres"". In 1836 appeared ""Picciola"", a novel about the Count de Charney, a political prisoner in Piedmont, whose reason was saved by his cultivation of a tiny flower growing between the paving stones of his prison yard. This story is a"
"Gabriel de Lurieu Gabriel de Lurieu, real name Gabriel-Zéphirin Gonyn de Lurieu, (Paris, 28 October 1799 (7 brumaire year VIII) – Paris 5 February 1889 ) was a French author and playwright. He signed with Armand d'Artois and Francis de Lurieu under the collective pseudonym « Sapajou », and under « J. Gabriel », « Jules », « Gabriel Lurieu » and « Monsieur Sapajou ». His brother ""Jules""-Joseph-Gabriel Gonyn de Lurieu (1792–1869), with whom he is sometimes mistaken, was also a playwright. The son of a captain of Dragons from a family of the minor nobility (squire) of the"
"new lands of Colonial North America. Anne Golon Anne Golon (17 December 1921 – 14 July 2017) was a French author, better known to English-speaking readers as Sergeanne Golon. She was most known for a series of novels about a heroine called Angelique. Born Simone Changeux in Toulon, a port in south-eastern France, was the daughter of Pierre Changeux, a scientist and a captain in the French Navy. She was interested in painting and writing from early childhood and published her first novel, ""The Country from behind my Eyes"", when she was 18 under the pen name Joëlle Danterne. During"
"W. Z. Silvermann. At her father's request, the name on her birth certificate was revised to read ""Sibylle Aimée Marie Antoinette Gabrielle"". Sibylle's mother, the comtesse de Mirabeau, née de Gonneville (1827–1903) was also a writer, who contributed to Le Figaro. In 1869, Sibylle married count Roger de Martel de Janville, by whom she had three children. Gyp wrote humorous sketches and novels which brazenly denounced her own fashionable society as well as the French republic's political class. She hated republicanism, populist democracy, and party shenanigans; supported Boulanger; and was a fanatical anti-Semite & anti-Dreyfusard; in fact, while testifying at"
"de Bordeaux"", 1909 ; ""Le Chat botté, d'après Jean de La Fontaine"", 1909 ; ""Le Marchand de rêves"" , 1909. Gabriel Mourey Marie Gabriel Mourey (23 September 1865 – 10 February 1943) was a French novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, translator and art critic. Gabriel Mourey was born 23 September 1865 in Marseille, the son of Louis-Félix Mourey, a druggist, and Amélie-Madeleine Roche-Latilla. He began his career as a poet at the age of seventeen with the collection ""Voix éparses"" (1883) published in the Librairie des bibliophiles by Jules Rouam (Paris). In March 1884, he launched ""Mireille, revue des poètes marseillais"","
"Laure Conan Laure Conan, pen name of Marie-Louise-Félicité Angers, (9 January 1845 – 6 June 1924), is regarded as the first true French-Canadian female novelist. She was born in Murray Bay, Canada East (now La Malbaie, Quebec). Educated by the Ursulines, Laure wrote eleven books focussed largely on religion and family structure in Quebec, with a particular interest in exploring the minds of her characters. She also was a valued contributor to ""Le Journal de Françoise"", a bimonthly paper edited by Robertine Barry. Conan's best remembered book is ""Angéline de Montbrun"" (1884) and is possibly Conan's best psychological novel. She"
"first Georges-Michel, was written in 1923, published in 1929 and reprinted for the mass market (by Le Livre de Poche in 1976). Set in Montparnasse, it was based on the life of Modigliani (Modrulleau in the novel) and his mistress Jeanne Hébuterne (whose nickname ""Noix-de-Coco"" inspired the character of ""Haricot-Rouge"" in the novel) Michel Georges-Michel Michel Georges-Michel (3 November 1883 – 31 March 1985), was a French painter, journalist, novelist, and translator of English and American authors. He was born in Paris. Georges-Michel studied at Beaux Arts, a student of Othon Friesz and Dufy, and at l'École du Louvre. An"
"Gabrielle Suchon Gabrielle Suchon (December 24, 1632, Semur-en-Auxois – March 5, 1703, Dijon) was a French moral philosopher who participated in debates about the social, political and religious condition of women in the early modern era. Her most prominent works are the ""Traité de la morale et de la politique"" (Treatise on Morality and Politics) and ""Du célibat volontaire"" (On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen). Suchon is considered to be the first philosopher to produce a significant body of work dedicated solely to the topic of women. Suchon's writing is unique because she specifically addresses women, as opposed to most"
"through her mother to the brothers Pierre and Thomas Corneille. Bernard was precocious and began writing at a young age, earning praise from her cousin, the author and critic Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle. At eighteen, she left her home in Rouen to pursue a literary career in Paris. In 1685 at the age of twenty-three, she converted to Catholicism and was well enough known at that time to have received notice in the ""Mercure galant"" for her """"ouvrages galants"""". The romance ""Frédéric de Sicile"" (1680, by Pradon?) was attributed to her as well as her cousin's ""L'Ile de Bornéo""."
"novels as disturbing realities, and the attitude he adopts towards them is so matter-of-fact that the reader rapidly finds himself believing in them..."" Horror historian R.S. Hadji included Seignolle on his list of the greatest horror writers. He turned 100 in June 2017 and died in July 2018 at the age of 101. In November 2008 he received the Prix Alfred Verdaguer from the French Academy. A literary prize bearing his name recognizes the works relating to French folklore. It is awarded annually since 2004, in Épinal, at the Festival Imaginales. Claude Seignolle Claude Seignolle (25 June 1917 – 13"
"Gabrielle Wittkop Gabrielle Wittkop (née Menardeau) (1920-2002) was a French writer. She was born in Nantes. She married Justus Wittkop, a Nazi deserter, in Paris and moved with him to Germany in 1946 after the end of the Second World War. Her first book, on the German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann was published in German in 1966. Her first novel ""Le Necrophile"" (""The Necrophiliac"", 1972) was published in 1972 by Régine Desforges. She wrote several highly regarded novels and travelogues. She also contributed to the art pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. After her partner committed suicide, she wrote an account"
"Françoise Sagan Françoise Sagan (; 21 June 1935 – 24 September 2004) – real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as ""a charming little monster"" by François Mauriac on the front page of ""Le Figaro"", Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first – ""Bonjour Tristesse"" (1954) – which was written when she was a teenager. Sagan was born in Cajarc (Lot) and spent her early childhood in Lot, surrounded by animals, a passion that stayed with her throughout her life."
"Victor Hugo Victor Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside of France, his most famous works are the novels ""Les Misérables"", 1862, and ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" (), 1831. In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as (""The Contemplations"") and (""The Legend of the Ages""). Hugo was at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement with his play ""Cromwell"" and drama ""Hernani"". Many of his works have inspired"
"topic of human rights""."" Gabrielle Suchon Gabrielle Suchon (December 24, 1632, Semur-en-Auxois – March 5, 1703, Dijon) was a French moral philosopher who participated in debates about the social, political and religious condition of women in the early modern era. Her most prominent works are the ""Traité de la morale et de la politique"" (Treatise on Morality and Politics) and ""Du célibat volontaire"" (On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen). Suchon is considered to be the first philosopher to produce a significant body of work dedicated solely to the topic of women. Suchon's writing is unique because she specifically addresses women,"
"Gabriel's Inferno Gabriel's Inferno is an erotic romance novel by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard. The story was first published in novel format in 2011 by Omnific Publishing, with further publishing rights to the series being purchased by Berkley Books. The work was first published on 4 September 2012, along with the second book in the series, ""Gabriel's Rapture"". The series has been compared to ""Fifty Shades of Grey"" because both originated as ""Twilight"" fan fiction, with the International Business Times reporting that ""Gabriel's Inferno"" differs in that it bears ""few similarities to the story"
"Gabriel Mourey Marie Gabriel Mourey (23 September 1865 – 10 February 1943) was a French novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, translator and art critic. Gabriel Mourey was born 23 September 1865 in Marseille, the son of Louis-Félix Mourey, a druggist, and Amélie-Madeleine Roche-Latilla. He began his career as a poet at the age of seventeen with the collection ""Voix éparses"" (1883) published in the Librairie des bibliophiles by Jules Rouam (Paris). In March 1884, he launched ""Mireille, revue des poètes marseillais"", with Raoul Russel, which had eight deliveries. For the Parisian publisher Camille Dalou, he published his first translation from English,"
"1795; others include ""The Abbey of Clugny"", ""The Mysterious Wife"", ""Anecdotes of the Altamont Family"", and ""Which is the Man?"" Her works include several translations from French, e.g. ""Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia"". The third edition of Chamber's ""Cyclopaedia of English Literature"" gave a disparaging assessment of her work: Elizabeth Meeke Elizabeth Meeke (13 November 1761–c. October 1826?) was a prolific English author, and the stepsister of Frances Burney. She wrote around 30 novels published by the Minerva Press during the late eighteenth and early 19th centuries, most under the name of Mrs. Meeke, some under the pseudonym Gabrielli,"
"Stendhal Marie-Henri Beyle (; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (; ), was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels ""Le Rouge et le Noir"" (""The Red and the Black"", 1830) and ""La Chartreuse de Parme"" (""The Charterhouse of Parma"", 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism. Born in Grenoble, Isère, he was an unhappy child, disliking his ""unimaginative"" father and mourning his mother, whom he passionately loved, and who died when he"
"Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé Philippe-Ignace-Francois Aubert de Gaspé, or simply Philippe Aubert de Gaspé (1814–7 March 1841) was a Canadian writer and is credited with writing the first French Canadian novel. Philippe-Ignace-Francois was tutored by his father Philippe-Joseph and studied at the seminary of Nicolet. He worked as a journalist at the ""Quebec Mercury"" and ""Le Canadien"". He was sentenced to a month in prison in November 1835 after clashing with Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, who had questioned his integrity. In February of the following year he unleashed a stink bomb of asafoetida at the National Assembly of Quebec. While"
"Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez née Poisson (22 November 1684 – 28 December 1770) was a French author and playwright. Madeleine-Angelique was born in Paris on 22 November 1684 to the actor Paul Poisson. Madeleine-Angélique married a Spanish nobleman, Don Gabriel de Gomez, thinking he was rich. When she discovered her husband was burdened with debt, she turned to writing as a hope to escape poverty. Her first a tragedy, ""Habis"", was released in 1714 to much critical appeal, being played at the Comédie-Française with a revival in 1732. Between 1722 and 1772, Gomez published eight editions of ""Les"
"""Corinne"". Benjamin Constant Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (; 25 October 1767 – 8 December 1830), or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss-French political activist and writer on politics and religion. He was the author of a partly biographical psychological novel, ""Adolphe"". He was a fervent liberal of the early 19th century, who influenced the Trienio Liberal movement in Spain, the Liberal Revolution of 1820 in Portugal, the Greek War of Independence, the November Uprising in Poland, the Belgian Revolution, and liberalism in Brazil and Mexico. Henri-Benjamin Constant was born in Lausanne to descendants of Huguenot Protestants who had fled from"