Madeleine Desroseaux is the

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of Florentine Monier (1873-1939), a Breton

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and

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Biography

Born in

Rennes Rennes (; ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in Northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the Brittany (administrative region), Brittany Regions of F ...

in 1873, she published poems very early in the local press. On February 4, 1895, she married in Rennes. The same year, in July, the couple founded ''Le Clocher Breton (The Breton Bell Tower)'', a bilingual literary journal which was published until 1915. Numerous artists and intellectuals of the country such as Loeiz Herrieu, Anatole Le Braz, Theodore Botrel, Alphonse de Chateaubriant, Charles Le Goffic or Jean-Pierre Calloc'h gathered around them. They were rewarded for the compilation of their writings by President

Raymond Poincaré Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré (; 20 August 1860 – 15 October 1934) was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1913 to 1920, and three times as Prime Minister of France. He was a conservative leader, primarily committed to ...

, on 6 July 1913. A publication of theirs, ''Poems of Brittany Times'' was crowned by the French Academy in 1930. From 1934, a regular collaboration with the ''Review of Two Worlds'' consolidated her fame.. Madeleine Desroseaux died in Lorient on May 3, 1939. M. Desroseaux and A. Degoul are buried in

Lorient Lorient (; ) is a town (''Communes of France, commune'') and Port, seaport in the Morbihan Departments of France, department of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in western France. History Prehistory and classical antiquity Beginn ...

, in Carnel cemetery.

References

1873 births 1939 deaths French women poets French women novelists Writers from Rennes French magazine founders {{France-poet-stub