Louis de Robert

Louis de Robert (; 5 March 1871, Paris – 27 September 1937) was a French writer; he won the Prix Femina in 1911.

Biography Robert became friends with the writer Émile Zola during the political scandal Dreyfus affair and took a stand for the revision of the trial.

A regular collaborator in The Journal, with Jules Renard, Alphonse Allais, Octave Mirbeau, he was the first reader of the proofs of the 1913 novel Swann's Way by his friend Marcel Proust and dissuaded Proust from shortening it.

Robert's novel Le Roman du malade, serialized in Le Figaro newspaper and then published by the , won the 1911 Prix Femina. The novel was admired by the writers Maurice Barres, Anna de Noailles, Robert de Montesquiou and Colette.

He won the prize of the Académie Française.

Personal life Having fallen in love with Jeanne Humbert, thirty years younger, they married at the town hall of Sannois on 8 November 1928. She survived him for more than half a century and published her autobiography, Le cœur a ses raisons, in 1986, on vanity press.

Works

1894: Un tendre 1896: Papa 1896: Fragiles. 1897: The Eternal Enigma Yvette Guilbert, New York City 1898: La Première Femme 1900: La Reprise 1901: Le Mauvais Amant 1901: Le Partage du cœur 1911: Le Roman du malade (winner, Prix Femina) 1912: L'envers d'une courtisane 1918: Le Prince amoureux 1921: Réussir 1921: Reconnais-toi 1922: Silvestre et Monique 1924: Paroles d'un solitaire 1925: Octavie 1925: Comment débuta Marcel Proust, lettres inédites 1925: Le Préféré 1926: Le Roman d'une comédienne 1927: Le Supplice des bourgeois de Premz 1927: Ni avec toi, ni sans toi 1928: Souvenirs sur Edmond Rostand 1930: De l'amour à la sagesse, suivi de Réflexions sur Marcel Proust 1931: La Rose et le cyprès 1932: Journal d’un mari 1933: Tragédie du désir 1936: Trop belle

Posthumous Lettres à Paul Faure, 1898–1937, 1943