| Louise de Courville | |
|---|---|
| Born | Louise Anne Marie Rondel August 25, 1860 Avignon, France |
| Died | February 23, 1937 7th arrondissement of Paris, France |
Louise de Courville, born Louise Rondel in Avignon on August 25, 1860, and died in Paris on February 23, 1937, 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. She was also the cousin of Auguste Rondel. In 1886, she married Count Maurice de Courville (1860–1944), a military engineer and director of the Schneider factories, responsible for manufacturing heavy artillery for the French army.
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. She was described as a “woman of social and networking prowess."
Alongside the Marquise de Mac Mahon, she worked to mobilize sections of royalist women and played an active role in establishing the Institut d'Action française. She was named secretary of the Dames royalistes (Royalist Ladies' Committee). Her dedication served as an inspiration for “her son Xavier and her two sons-in-law, Jean Rivain and Pierre Gilbert, who were among the leading militants of Action Française."
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
References
- Act of death (with birth date and place) in Paris, no. 319, view 3/31.
- Courville, retrieved 2022-02-13
- ^ Collectif (10 May 2019), L'Action française au féminin : Réseaux et figures de militantes au début du XXe siècle, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, ISBN 978-2-7574-2123-9, retrieved 2022-02-13
- Giraudoux, Jean (11 October 2005), Cahiers n°32, Grasset, ISBN 978-2-246-78814-0, retrieved 2022-02-13
- Eugen Weber (1964), L'Action Française, Paris: Stock, p. 56, ISBN 2-01-016210-2