Louis de Robert
Louis de Robert (born March 5, 1871 in Paris , † September 27, 1937 in Sannois , Val-d'Oise ) was a French writer who won the Prix Femina in 1911 .
Life
He fell in love with Jeanne Humbert, who was thirty years his junior, and married her on November 8, 1928 in the town hall of Sannois . She survived him for more than half a century and published her autobiography Le cœur a ses raisons in 1986 with Vanity Press. During the Dreyfus affair he befriended Émile Zola and advocated the revision of the process.
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His most famous novel, Le Roman du Malade , appeared as a serial in Le Figaro and was then published as a book by the Éditions Fasquelle. The novel received the Prix Femina in 1911. Authors such as Maurice Barrès , Anna de Noailles , Robert de Montesquiou and Colette admired the work, which was also awarded the prize of the Académie française .
As a regular contributor to The Journal with Jules Renard , Alphonse Allais and Octave Mirbeau , he was the first reader of excerpts from Marcel Proust's book Du côté de chez Swann ; he got his friend Proust to shorten the text.
literature
Le Roman du malade , Éditions Larousse - Vienna: [Manzsche Verlh.], Vienna 1922 (Éditions Larousse; 22)
Literature on Louis de Robert
- Philippe de Robert, Louis de Robert, témoin de son temps (1871–1937), [2] (last accessed on August 26, 2019)
Web links
Literature by Louis de Robert in Worldcat: [3]
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Robert, Louis de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1937 |
| Place of death | Sannois , Val-d'Oise |