"Ewelina Hańska Eveline Hańska (Ewelina, née Rzewuska, 6 January c. 1805 – 11 April 1882) was a Polish noblewoman best known for her marriage to French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Born at the Wierzchownia estate in Volhynia, (now Ukraine) Hańska married landowner Wacław Hański (Wenceslas Hanski) when she was a teenager. Hański, who was about 20 years her senior, suffered from depression. They had five children, but only a daughter, Anna, survived. In the late 1820s, Hańska began reading Balzac's novels, and in 1832, she sent him an anonymous letter. This began a decades-long correspondence in which Hańska and Balzac"
"consider a literary career. The 1925 book ""In Tahiti"", written in Russian and published in Leningrad, was based on these letters. She published two further novels in Russian, ""Wild Strawberry"" (1926) and ""Camouflage"" (1928), both published in Moscow. In 1928 Elsa met French writer Louis Aragon. They married and stayed together for 42 years. She influenced Aragon to join the French Communist Party. Triolet and Aragon fought in the French Resistance. In 1944 Triolet was the first woman to be awarded the Prix Goncourt. She died, aged 73, in Moulin de Villeneuve, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, France of a heart attack. In 2010,"
"at the cynicism and atheism in ""La Peau de Chagrin"" and its negative portrayal of women. His response was to place a classified advertisement in the ""Gazette de France"", hoping that his anonymous critic would see it. Thus began a fifteen-year correspondence between Balzac and ""the object of [his] sweetest dreams"": Ewelina Hańska. Ewelina (""née"" Rzewuska) was married to a nobleman twenty years her senior, Marshal Wacław Hański, a wealthy Polish landowner living near Kiev. It had been a marriage of convenience to preserve her family's fortune. In Balzac Countess Ewelina found a kindred spirit for her emotional and social"
"She debuted as a writer at the age of 14. Married the first time in 1799, she divorced the next year and upon the death of her mother moved to Paris, where she worked as a correspondent for several German papers. From 1803 to 1807 she edited her own ""Französische Miszellen"" (""French Miscellanea"") journal, commenting on political issues, which earned her trouble with the ubiquitous censors. In Paris she befriended Friedrich Schlegel's wife Dorothea, who introduced her to the French orientalist Antoine-Léonard de Chézy. In 1805 they married and Helmina subsequently gave birth to two sons: the later author Wilhelm"
"confirmed the rumor of his paternity. However, the link was only confirmed in 1946, when Maria's grandson Charles du Fresnay told French journalist and historian Roger Pierrot that Marie's nickname used to be ""Maria"". Maria Du Fresnay Marie Du Fresnay, aka Maria du Fresnay, née Daminois, was a French writer, born in 1809 and deceased in 1892. She was the mistress of Honoré de Balzac, to whom she gave a daughter, Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay (b. 4 June 1834), the only child of the French author. Her own mother was the playwright and novelist Adèle Daminois. She's also the mother of"
"famous artists she had known: Nikolai Gumilyov , Georgy Ivanov , Osip Mandelstam , Zinaida Gippius , Dmitri Merezhkovsky , Andrey Bely and Ivan Bunin among others. These two books caused much controversy among the Russians in France but still ""might be regarded as a priceless document of the time, even if full of aberrations and frivolous twists of fantasy,"" according to poet and Russian poetry historian Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Her marriage to Georgy Ivanov, though it lasted 37 years, ""had little to do with the usual concepts of conjugal life,"" according to her biographer Ella Bobrova. An example of their"
"included numerous artists: writers, actors and musicians. Of Basque ancestry by his father, their surname originated in Hasparren, France, where their surname was spelled ""Samacoys"" at 18th century. He is known as a novelist, he also wrote about 12 theater pieces, including ""Les Bouffons"", created by Sarah Bernhardt, and is author of musical livrets and opera comic musics, tales and fantaisists poems. He wrote ""L'Arche de Noé"" (1911), a book of poems about animals, and ""La Française"" (1915), military march with Camille Saint-Saëns for the music. At 65, on 15 December 1931, he married Marie Thérèse Ozanne in Versailles. During"
"Justine Lévy Justine-Juliette Lévy (born 27 September 1974) is a French book editor and author. Lévy is the eldest daughter of Isabelle Doutreluigne and French philosopher, writer, and intellectual, Bernard-Henri Lévy. Her 1995 debut novel """"Le Rendez-vous"""" (""The Rendezvous"") was translated from French into English and published in the United States in 1997. On September 21, 1996 she married Raphaël Enthoven, the son of her father's best friend, Jean-Paul Enthoven, who left her for model and singer, Carla Bruni (who is now married to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy). She wrote a novel whose story paralleled her own life. The"
"wife Christiane Motoret at Bal Bousca, one of the most famous Paris ballrooms at the time. She worked at the ""Pairie générale de la Seine"" and was an activist of the ""Confédération générale du travail"". With her, he won many dance competitions, leading to their marriage in February 1946. Their relationship inspired his novel ""L'Heureuse aventure"" (The Happy Adventure). He and Christiane divorced in May 1951. He then married Léna Botrel, the daughter of Théodore Botrel, who gave him a third son, François. That same year he won the ""Prix du roman populiste"" for his novel ""Une maison soufflée aux"
"still largely ignored, he advocated the work of El Greco. He wrote about the Le Nain brothers and Maurice Quentin de La Tour. He also had a brief affair in 1851 with Eveline Hańska, the widow of his friend Honoré de Balzac. He edited the periodical ""Le réalisme"" in 1856 and 1857. His novels, of which the best-known is ""Les bourgeois de Molinchart"" (1854), were among the earliest Realist works. In 1869 his book ""Les Chats"", a series of essays about cats including portrayals of cats by prominent artists of the time, was published by Librairie de la Société Botanique"
"he further studied literature at the University of Algiers and La Sorbonne, Paris, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on Denis Diderot, a French philosopher and writer. He married Assia Djebar, an Algerian filmmaker and novelist, in 1980; divorced in 2005. He was the director of the Abdelkader Alloula Foundation, which honors his brother Abdelkader Alloula, a notable playwright and stage director who was assassinated by members of Islamic Front for Armed Jihad. From 1999, he is the partner of the Belgian stylist Véronique Lejeune. Having become an editor in Paris in 1967, he continued writing poetry, essays on poetics,"
"She was also the 2012 winner of ""The Spirit of Everywoman Award"", awarded by NatWest. In 2013, she was named as one of publishing Top 100 most influential people by the ""Bookseller"" and one of London's 1000 most influential people in the arts by ""The Evening Standard"". She married Greg Dunk and has two now adult children, Martha and Felix. Her husband changed his name to Mosse when the couple married. In 1989, she and her husband bought a small house in Carcassonne in the Languedoc region of southwest France, the inspiration for her bestselling trilogy of historical timeslip novels."
"is a novelist. She has written seven novels. She has also co-written a children's book and a biography about her family. Schneider was the recipient of the Prix Anna de Noailles from the Académie française in 2002 for ""Fortune de mère"". Her 2014 novel, ""Avons-nous assez navigué"", is about an elderly woman who goes to the Palais Garnier to see ""Eugene Onegin"". There, she meets an old lover, Antoine, and tries to rekindle their romance. She lives in an apartment overlooking the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Dominique Schneidre Dominique Schneidre (born July 8, 1942) is"
"as a musician and a poet. On 8 May 1849, he married in Paris Claire d'Agoult (1830-1912), daughter of Marie d'Agoult (1805-1876), in literature Daniel Stern, of whom he had become a regular at the literary salon after meeting Honoré de Balzac in Dresden in countess Hanska's salon. For eight years he was an inspector of the Chemins de Fer du Nord. In 1857 he entered journalism and gave a large number of articles on agronomy and zootechnics in the ""Journal de l'Agriculture"" and in ""La Presse"". A pupil of Émile Baudement, he was a specialist in agricultural issues and"
"Angélique and the King Angélique and the King () is a 1959 novel by Anne Golon and Serge Golon, the second novel in the ""Angélique"" series. Inspired by the life of Suzanne de Rougé du Plessis-Bellière, known as the Marquise du Plessis-Bellière. The novel is set during the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678). Angélique's marriage to Jeoffrey de Peyrac is thought to be parallel to that of the daughter of Madame de Sévigné, Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné to the Comte de Grignan. There are some parallels between the career of Angélique's second husband, Philippe de Plessis du Bellière, and that of the historical"
"of the World: Journey into Russia"" in 1928; and a novel, ""The Soloist of His Majesty,"" in 1929. Her love life in the twilight of the Belle Epoque was no less eventful than her artistic career. She had relationships with various people such as painter Émile Bernard, writers Maurice Barres and Andre Germain, and a short-lived affair with American writer Natalie Barney. She married for the second time to Mexican economist and diplomat Makedonio Garza in 1922, and after living in Hamburg, Mexico, New York, Paris, Moscow, London, and Madrid, the couple settled in Mexico in 1934. The decline of"
"and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, and his lifelong companion, Simone de Beauvoir. It was also home to a large community of expatriate writers from around the world. Ernest Hemingway, hired as a foreign correspondent for the ""Toronto Star"", moved to Paris with his first wife Hadley in 1922 and made his first residence in a small upstairs apartment at 74 rue du Cardinal Lemoine. He remained until 1928, when he left with his second wife, Pauline. While there he wrote and published his first novel, ""The Sun Also Rises"". Others in the literary expatriate community included the poet Ezra Pound, the"
"Maria Du Fresnay Marie Du Fresnay, aka Maria du Fresnay, née Daminois, was a French writer, born in 1809 and deceased in 1892. She was the mistress of Honoré de Balzac, to whom she gave a daughter, Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay (b. 4 June 1834), the only child of the French author. Her own mother was the playwright and novelist Adèle Daminois. She's also the mother of French knight Ange Du Fresnay and the ancestor of French writer and silent film director Guy Du Fresnay as well as of French contemporary essayist and economist Philippe Du Fresnay. Her life inspired Honoré"
"bicycle through France to Spain. She wrote using different pen-names, helped to create ""France Magazine"", and was awarded a literary prize for ""The Patrol of the Saint Innocents"". She was sent to Africa as a journalist, where she met Vsevolod Sergeïvich Goloubinoff, her future husband, Serge Golon. They collaborated on ""Angélique, Marquise of the Angels"" (1956), the first book in the series. The book was an overnight success. When originally published in France, the books were credited to Serge and Anne Golon, Anne being the author and husband Serge having done much of the historical research. The two names were"
"Le Contrat de mariage Le Contrat de mariage (English: ""A Marriage Contract"" or ""A Marriage Settlement"") is an 1835 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the ""Scènes de la vie privée"" section of his novel sequence ""La Comédie humaine"". Set in Bordeaux, it describes the marriage of a Parisian gentleman, Paul de Manerville, to the beautiful but spoiled Spanish heiress, Natalie Evangelista. Paul de Manerville is a gentleman born of wealth and nobility who decides, over the objections of his worldly friend de Marsay, to give up his elegant bachelor’s life and get married at"
"sister Lilya, who was married to Osip Brik. Ella was the first to translate Mayakovsky's poetry (as well as volumes of other Russian-language poetry) to French. In 1918, at the outset of the Russian Civil War, Ella married the French cavalry officer André Triolet and emigrated to France, where she changed her name to Elsa, but for years admitted in her letters to Lilya to being heartbroken. She later divorced Triolet. In the early 1920s, Elsa described her visit to Tahiti in her letters to Victor Shklovsky, who subsequently showed them to Maxim Gorky. Gorky suggested that the author should"
"de Balzac's most famous novel ""Eugénie Grandet"", which depicted in part her family, who was living at the time in the French city of Sartrouville. In 1833, as he revealed in a letter to his sister, Honoré de Balzac entered into a secret intrigue, with Marie (aka ""Maria"") du Fresnay, who was then 24. Her marriage to Charles Antoine Du Fresnay, son of Charles Du Fresnay, former mayor of Sartrouville (portrayed as ""Charles Grandet, nephew of the former mayor of Saumur"" in Eugénie Grandet) had been a failure from the start, with a 23-year age difference between them. In this"
"this category – including the similarly autobiographical ""Louis Lambert"" (1832) – it deals with philosophy and the supernatural. But it also provides a bridge to the realism of the ""Études des mœurs"" (""Study of Manners""), where the majority of his novels were located. The popularity of the novel extended to Ukraine, where a baroness named Ewelina Hańska read about Balzac's novels in newspapers she received from Paris. Intrigued, she ordered copies of his work, and she read them with her cousins and friends around Volhynia. They were impressed by the understanding he showed toward women in ""La Physiologie du mariage"","
"Angélique (novel series) Angelique (original Angélique) is a series of 13 French historical adventure books by the novelist duo Anne and Serge Golon. The first 10 books have been adapted into English while numbers 11-13 have not. Some of these books were then adapted into 5 popular movies. The eponymous protagonist is a 17th-century woman born into the provincial aristocracy in the west of France. In successive books she marries at a young age the romantic and talented Count of Toulouse; gets her domestic bliss destroyed when King Louis XIV has her husband executed on trumped up charges; descends into"
"to be able to compose poetry in it. In Paris sometime between 1800 and 1805, Friedrich Schlegel's wife Dorothea introduced him to the Wilhelmine Christiane von Klencke, called Hermina or Hermine, who, extremely unusually for the time, was a very young divorcée who had come to Paris to be a correspondent for German newspapers. In 1805 they married and Helmina subsequently gave birth to two sons: the author Wilhelm Theodor von Chézy (1806–1865) and Max von Chézy (1808–1846), who became a painter. However, the marriage was ultimately not a success, and the couple parted, although did not divorce, in 1810."
"Wierzchownia was isolated. Hańska was bored by visits to the court at St. Petersburg, and even more bored by noble guests in her own home. She found nothing in common with the ladies of high society, and longed for the stimulating discussions she had enjoyed with her brother Henryk. She spent her time reading the books her husband imported from faraway lands. One of the writers who most enchanted Hańska was the French novelist Honoré de Balzac. After laboring in pseudonymous obscurity for ten years, Balzac published ""Les Chouans"" (""The Chouans"") in 1829. A tale of star-crossed love amidst a"
"bring his career back from the brink. In an interview in 2001 he spoke of his admiration for performers like Johnny Hallyday and Jacques Brel, who committed totally, and quoted the author Louis-Ferdinand Céline: ""When I write, I put my balls on the table."" He married Irina Tarassov, an actress and writer, on 26 December 1979. They separated in 1998. (Irina has written about their life together in her book, ""Un jour, tout ira bien."") Having met Seny, an African widow, she and Jacques were about to start life together in Paris when he died in Evreux following a liver"
"of it in ""Hemlock"" (1988). She herself committed suicide in 2002, after she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Although popular in France and Germany, Wittkop's works are not widely available in English. ""The Necrophiliac"" was translated in a Canadian edition by Don Bapst in 2011. 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"
"Henry Gréville Henry Gréville (12 October 1842 in Paris – 1902), pen name for Mrs. Alice Durand, born Fleury, was a French writer. The daughter of a professor, she accompanied her father to St. Petersburg, studied languages and science and married Émile Durand, a French law professor at Petersburg, with whom she returned to France in 1872. Gréville had already published novels in St. Petersburg journals: ""A travers des champs"" and ""Sonia"", and continued her production in France, first with the novels ""Dosia"" (1876) and ""L'Expiation de Savéli"" (1876), depicting Russian society. ""Dosia"" was awarded the ""Montbon"" prize and saw"
"was admired by Maurice Barres, Anna de Noailles, Robert de Montesquiou and Colette. He won the Prix of the Académie française Fallen in love with the thirty years younger Jeanne Humbert, he married her at the town hall of Sannois on November 8, 1928. She survived him more than half a century and published her autobiography ""Le cœur a ses raisons"" in 1986, on vanity press. Posthumous Louis de Robert Louis de Robert (5 March 1871, Paris – 27 September 1937) was a French writer, winner of the prix Femina in 1911. He became friends with Émile Zola during the"
"of Carl Jung, describes his wife Emma Jung as bearing up nobly as her husband insisted that Toni Wolff become part of their household, saying that Wolff was ""his other wife"". The Russian and Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky lived with Lilya Brik, who was considered his muse, and her husband Osip Brik, an ""avant garde"" writer and critic. The writer Aldous Huxley and his first wife Maria engaged in a ""ménage"" with Mary Hutchinson, a friend of Clive Bell. From 1939, Erwin Schrödinger, his wife Annemarie Bertel, and his mistress Hilde March had a ""ménage à trois"". In 1963 the"
"Jacques (novel) Jacques (1833) is a novel by French author George Sand, née Amantine Dupin. The novel centers on an unhappy marriage between a retired soldier, aged 35 (Jacques), and his young teenaged bride, Fernanade. The novel is the first by Sand to be named after a male character. While previously, her novels had focused on female experiences within marriage, in ""Jacques,"" she turns her attention to describing a male partner in a marriage. The novel details how he feels about ongoing events in often painful detail. It has been suggested by some critics that the character of Jacques later"
"and Eugenia Delarova, were both ballet dancers. With his third wife, Tatiana Orlova, he had two children, a son, Lorca, and a daughter, Tatiania. He and Orlova divorced in 1968. He subsequently married Hannelore Holtwick, with whom he had two sons, Peter and Theodor, and made his home in Borken, West Germany, where he died on 15 March 1979. In 1968 Massine published his autobiography, entitled ""My Life in Ballet"". Massine was inducted into the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame in 2002. Léonide Massine Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin (), better known in the West by the French transliteration"