Marie Le Harivel de Gonneville
Marie Le Harivel de Gonneville, comtesse de Mirabeau (28 April 1827 – 8 March 1914) was a French writer.
Biography
She was born in Nancy, the daughter of Aymard Olivier Le Harivel de Gonneville, an officer in the Grande Armée and the son of a lieutenant of the King's police force from Caen, and Sophie Françoise Antoinette Fourier de Bacourt, the sister of the Count of Bacourt. She married the last Count of Mirabeau, Joseph-Arundel de Riquetti, grand-nephew of the famous tribune and ardent legitimist. They had a daughter, Sibylle Riquetti de Mirabeau, better known as Gyp. The couple separated shortly after her birth. The Countess de Mirabeau moved in with her parents in Nancy, in the family building on Place Carrière.
Widowed in 1860, she regained a more favourable social status than that of a separated wife and began to go out and entertain, much to her daughter's dismay. She also took up literature, publishing a number of novels, mainly out of necessity. The style of her feuilletons, published in La Vie parisienne and the Revue des deux Mondes, foreshadowed that of Gyp's novels.
She died in Mondeville, Calvados.
Works
Some of his works were published under the pseudonyms Jack Franck and Aymar de Flagy.
- Chut !!! (1860)
- Histoire de deux héritières (1864)
- Les Jeunes filles pauvres... Le Passé et l'avenir. Le Revenant de Mériadec. Marguerite d'Érigny (1866)
- Veillées normandes (1867)
- Hélène de Gardannes (1868)
- Le Baron d'Aché (1869; the book somewhat romanticizes the life of Viscount Robert François d'Aché and features Vaubadon castle)
- Prières et pensées chrétiennes (1870; with a letter by Félix Dupanloup)
- L'Été de la Saint-Martin. Nicole (1873)
- Maréchale Bazaine (1874)
- Jane et Germaine (1875)
- Péchés mignons (1881)
- L'Impératrice Wanda (1884)
- Hors du monde (1885)
- Le Crime de la rue Marignan (1889)
- Fredaines (1890)
- La Reine Nadège (1895)
- Cœur d'or (1896; published as a serial novel in Le Temps from 26 February 1896 to 5 April 1896)
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