Paule Régnier

Paule Joseph Marie Eugénie Charlotte Régnier (19 June 1888 in Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne) – 1 December 1950 in Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine ) was a French writer, laureate of the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1934.

Biography Paule Regnier grew up in Versailles, where her father, a career officer, had been sent in 1890, and where he left his family when the obligations of the military profession caused him to change his residence. After the death of her father in 1902, her mother moved with her and her two older sisters to Paris. After the marriage of these, Paule Regnier remained alone with her mother until the death of the latter in 1926.

Works

1913: Octave 1924: La Vivante Paix 1929: Heureuse Faute 1919: Marcelle, faible femme 1930: Le Roi Mage de Maillezais 1931: Petite et Nadie 1933: L'Abbaye d'Évolayne – Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française 1936: Cherchez la joie 1941: Tentation 1942: L'Expérience d'Alain 1945: Ce qui fait le bonheur 1946: L'Aventure d'Hermione Capulet 1947: La Face voilée, essay on pain, followed by Plaintes dans la nuit 1949: Les Filets de la mer Posthumous publications 1953: Journal, foreword by 1956: Fêtes et Nuages, chronique d'une enfance 1956: Lettres