Hermine Lecomte du Nouÿ

Hermine Lecomte du Noüy ( Oudinot; pen names, L'auteur d'Amitié amoureuse and Pierre Guérande; Paris, 1854 - Paris, 1915) was a French writer.

Early life Hermine-Augustine-Eugénie Oudinot was born on 10 March 1854 in Paris. Her father was the stained glass painter . Her sister, , was a novelist and playwright. She later lived in her private mansion at 30 Boulevard Flandrin in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, which has since been destroyed.

In the 1870s, she married , an architect in the service of the Romanian government and restorer of the church of Curtea de Argeș. Their son was Pierre Lecomte du Noüy.

Hermine Lecomte du Noüy died in her hometown on 18 June 1915.

Selected works

L'Erreur d'aimer (The Mistake of Loving) (1893), with preface by Marcel Prévost Steeple-chase, scènes de la vie mondaine en un acte (Steeplechase, scenes from worldly life in one act) (1896), play written with Suzanne Reichenberg Amitié amoureuse (Amorous Friendship) Calmann-Lévy, 1896 Désobéissance criminelle (Criminal Disobedience), Hachette, 1899 L'amour est mon péché (Love is my sin), Calmann-Lévy, 1899 Le Doute plus fort que l'amour (Doubt stronger than love), Calmann-Lévy, 1900 Mater dolorosa (Mother of pain), Calmann-Lévy, 1901, with Maurice de Waleffe Maudit soit l'amour (Cursed be love), Calmann-Lévy, 1901, with Maurice de Waleffe Hésitation sentimentale (Sentimental hesitation), Calmann-Lévy, 1902 En regardant passer la vie (Watching life go by), Paul Ollendorff, 1903, with Henri Amic La Joie d'aimer (The Joy of Loving), Calmann-Lévy, 1904, with Henri Amic Les serments ont des ailes (Oaths have wings), Calmann-Lévy, 1904, with Henri Amic Jours passés (Days gone by), 1908], with Henri Amic L'amour guette (Love is lurking), 1908, with Jean de Fossendal La Route interrompue (The Interrupted Road), Pierre Lafitte, 1910, translation in collaboration with B. Mayra