Marie de Régnier

Marie de Régnier (; 20 December 1875 – 6 February 1963), also known by her maiden name Marie de Heredia or her pen-name Gérard d'Houville , was a French novelist and poet, and closely involved in the artistic circles of early twentieth-century Paris.

Biography Marie de Heredia was the second of three daughters of Cuban-born French poet José-Maria de Heredia, and from an early age she mixed with many writers and artists who came to her father's house, including Leconte de Lisle, Anna de Noailles, Paul Valéry, Pierre Louÿs and Anatole France.

Her private life was somewhat convoluted. She married poet Henri de Régnier, but had a long-term relationship with Pierre Louÿs, who was probably the father of her son Pierre de Régnier (1898–1943). She also took several other lovers, including Edmond Jaloux, Jean-Louis Vaudoyer, Gabriele D'Annunzio (during his exile in Paris from 1910 to 1914), and dramatist Henri Bernstein. Her association with openly lesbian colleagues also led to rumours about her own sexuality. ). She later said her use of a pen-name was a way of distancing herself from her more famous husband and father, In 1918 she was the recipient of the Académie française's inaugural Grand Prix de Littérature, awarded for her fiction, and in 1958 she was also given the Académie's Grand Prix de Poésie for her poetic oeuvre – to this day the only woman to have received both awards. Esclave, 1905 Le Temps d'aimer, 1908 Le Séducteur, 1914 Jeune Fille, 1916 Tant pis pour toi, 1921 Le Roman des quatre, 1923 (written in collaboration with Paul Bourget, Henri Duvernois and Pierre Benoit) Le Chou, 1924 Vingt poèmes, 1925 L'Enfant, 1925 La Vie amoureuse de l'Impératrice Joséphine, 1925 Clowns, 1925 Paris et les voyages, 1925 Chez le magicien, 1926 Proprette et Cochonnet, 1926 Opinions candides, 1926 Je crois que je vous aime... Sept proverbes, 1927 Esclave amoureuse, 1927 La Vie amoureuse de la Belle Hélène, 1928 Le Diadème de Flore, 1928 Le Charmant Rendez-Vous, 1929 Les Rêves de Rikiki, 1930 Les Poésies, 1931 L'Impératrice Joséphine, 1933 Peau d'âme, 1935 Le Temps d'aimer, 1935 Enfantines et Amoureuses, 1946