Lucie Paul-Margueritte

Lucie Paul-Margueritte (9 January 1886 - 10 May 1955) was a French-language writer and translator. She was the recipient of the Legion of Honour as well as multiple awards from the Académie Française. She lived and worked with her widowed sister, Ève Paul-Margueritte.

Biography Lucie Blanche Paul-Margueritte was born 9 January 1886, in Paris. She was the daughter of Paul Margueritte, the niece of Victor Margueritte, and the granddaughter of General Jean Auguste Margueritte. Thanks to her father and her uncle, she became acquainted with Stéphane Mallarmé, Alphonse Daudet, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Louis Bertrand. She was well-traveled, visiting Algeria, Corsica, and Italy.

Paul-Margueritte began publishing in magazines at the age of eighteen. After three years of marriage, she divorced and thereafter lived with her widowed sister, Ève Paul-Margueritte. Together, they raised the latter's son, living from their writings. She translated many English novels, including Bram Stoker's Dracula. She served as director of the publication of Scène et monde: périodique illustré, publie des comédies, contes et poèmes tous les mois (Stage and World: illustrated periodical, publishing plays, stories and poems every month) from 1939 to 1944.

Like her sister, Paul-Margueritte was a member of the first women's gastronomic club, the "Club des belles perdrix".

Lucie Paul-Margueritte died in Paris, 10 May 1955.

Awards and honors Legion of Honour, 1930 Prix d’Académie, from the Académie Française, 1930 Prix du concours de la Chanson française for Premier amour, 1934 Prix Kornmann, Académie Française, 1941 Prix d’Académie, Académie Française, 1943 Prix d’Académie, Académie Française, 1944 Prix Jean-Jacques-Berger, Académie Française, for le guide Auteuil-Passy, 1947 Prix Georges-Dupau, Académie Française, 1950 Prix Alice-Louis-Barthou, Académie Française, 1954

Selected works Books

Paillettes, 1908 Les Colombes, A. Michel, 1915 Le Singe et son violon, 1918 "L'avertissement. Nouvelle", Le Gaulois du dimanche, 14 August 1920 Les Confidences libertines, 1922 La jeune fille mal élevée, 1922 El camino mas largo La lanterne chinoise, 1930 Le miroir magique: sur des thèmes chinois, vingt-six poèmes, 1932 L'Amant démasqué, 1933 Tunisiennes, 1937 Deux frères, deux sœurs, deux époques littéraires, 1951 (with Eve Paul-Margueritte) Auteuil et Passy, 1947 (with Eve Paul-Margueritte) En Algérie: enquêtes et souvenirs, 1948 L'Oncle Amiral: contes chinois, ca. 1955

Translations

Les Plans du Bruce-Partington, 1910; from The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, by Conan Doyle La Chasse à l'homme; from a story by E. Phillips Oppenheim Le Second Déluge, 1912 (with Ève Paul-Margueritte); from The Second Deluge, by Garrett P. Serviss La Belle aux cheveux d'or, 1912 (with Ève Paul-Margueritte); from a story by Alice and Claude Askew Sept belles pécheresses: Duchesse de Chateauroux, Duchesse de Kendal, Catherine II de Russie, Duchesse de Kingston, Comtesse de Lamotte, Duchesse de Polignac, Lola Montes, 1913 (with Ève Paul-Margueritte); from Seven splendid sinners, by W. R. H. ( (William Rutherford Hayes)) Trowbridge Vers les étoiles, 1914, (with Ève Paul-Margueritte); from Stairways to the Stars by Lilian Turner L'homme de la nuit, 1920 (with Ève Paul-Margueritte); from Dracula, by Bram Stoker A jolie fille, joli garçon. Le Procès des épingles d'or. Miroir de beauté. Les Amours de Mme Fleur. 1922; adapted from stories by Jingu qiguan Le Lama rouge, et autres contes, 1923 (with Tcheng-Loh), from 60 stories in Yuewei caotang biji (zh) (閱微草堂筆記), by Ji Yun El camino más largo, 1927; from Le Chemin des écolières, by Albin Michel Ts'ing Ngai ou Les plaisirs contrariés: conte chinois ancien adapté des Kin-kou-ki-kouan, 1927; from a story by Jingu qiguan Amour filial, légendes chinoises: les vingt-quatre exemples de piété filiale, 1929; French adaptation of Er shi si xiao (zh) (二十四孝) Chants berbères du Maroc, 1935; adaptation Proverbes kurdes, 1937 (preceded by a study on Kurdish poetry by Lucie Paul-Margueritte and the Emir Bedir Khan Beg, containing the translation of poems by Elî Teremaxî) La Folle d'amour, confession d'une chinoise du XVIIIe siècle, 1949 (adapted by Lucie Paul-Margueritte); from a story by Meng li Lo

Articles "Une audience de la reine Marie de Roumanie", 1926 "En Tunisie", Les Annales coloniales, 1938 "Dans le Djurjura", Scène et Monde, 1940

Plays Un bouquet perdu, comedy in one act, creation: Studio des Champs-Elysées, 1933 Le Hasard et les concubines, comedy in one act, creation: Studio des Champs-Elysées, 1933 Quand elles parlent d'amour, Théâtre Albert Ier (now, Théâtre Tristan-Bernard, 1934 Sylvette ou Sylvie?, comedy in one act with dances, created by Théâtre Comœdia, 1932