Louise de Courville

Louise de Courville (née Rondel; 25 August 1860 in Avignon – 23 February 1937 in Paris) better known as Comtesse de Courville, was a French author of children's books and a militant of Action française.

Biography Born into a bourgeois family, Louise Rondel was the daughter of an engineer with the Ponts et Chaussées.

Passionate about literature, the Comtesse de Courville published several children's novels between 1896 and 1899. Concurrently, she hosted a salon at her apartment on the Rue du Cherche-Midi, where she became a close friend of Charles Maurras and Maurice Barrès.

Alongside the Marquise de Mac Mahon, she worked to mobilize sections of royalist women

Works 1896: Mademoiselle Edmonde 1897: Les Petits de Presle 1897: La Vieille 1898: Amitiés d’enfants 1898: Marmiton 1899: En fuite 1900: Histoires bretonnes ; Le Petit Ami des pauvres ; La Veuve Corr