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

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Biography

Early life

Marie Gasquet was born in

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (; "Saint-Rémy of Provence"; Provençal dialect, Provençal: ''Sant Romieg de Provença'' and ''Sant Roumié de Prouvènço'' ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône Departments of France, department ...

Bouches-du-Rhône Bouches-du-Rhône ( ; , ; ; "the Mouths of the Rhône") is a Departments of France, department in southern France. It borders Vaucluse to the north, Gard to the west and Var (department), Var to the east. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the sout ...

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

Frédéric Mistral Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral (; , 8 September 1830 – 25 March 1914) was an Occitan writer and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the fresh origina ...

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, a friend of

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century a ...

'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