Louise de Courville

Louise de Courville
Born
Louise Anne Marie Rondel

25 August 1860
Avignon, France
Died23 February 1937
7th arrondissement of Paris, France

Louise de Courville (née Rondel; 25 August 1860 in Avignon – 23 February 1937 in Paris)[1] better known as Comtesse de Courville, was a French author of children's books[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]

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.[3] She was described as a “woman of social and networking prowess."[3]

Alongside the Marquise de Mac Mahon, she worked to mobilize sections of royalist women[3] and played an active role in establishing the Institut d'Action française. She was named secretary of the Dames royalistes (Royalist Ladies' Committee).[3] 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."[5]

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

  1. ^ Act of death (with birth date and place) in Paris, no. 319, view 3/31.
  2. ^ Courville, retrieved 13 February 2022
  3. ^ a b c d e 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 13 February 2022
  4. ^ Giraudoux, Jean (11 October 2005), Cahiers n°32, Grasset, ISBN 978-2-246-78814-0, retrieved 13 February 2022
  5. ^ Eugen Weber (1964), L'Action Française, Paris: Stock, p. 56, ISBN 2-01-016210-2 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
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