Marguerite Bourcet

Marguerite Marie Bourcet (26 August 1899 – 18 June 1938) was a French writer.

Biography

Marguerite Bourcet was born at Dole, Jura, the daughter of Paul Bourcet (1874–1936) and Marie Louise Rosalie Bourdon (1871–1921). In October 1932, after taking part in a retreat for Catholic writers organised in Versailles by Father Bessières, she launched the Catholic Women Writers' Days alongside Berthe Bernage.

Her biography A Tragic Couple: The Duke and Duchess of Alençon (1939) was a phenomenal success, a bestseller that went through 181 editions and several translations. The Duchess of Alençon was the favourite sister of the Empress of Austria, Elisabeth of Wittelsbach (Sisi).

Marguerite Bourcet died of cancer in Paris at the age of 38. She is buried in the Vaugirard Cemetery (division 13).

Works

• L'Héritière de Ferlac (1922; illustrated by Ferdinand Raffin)
• L'Étoile de Navailles (1925; illustrated by Ferdinand Raffin)
• Toujours prêtes (1930; illustrated by Maurice Lavergne; preface by Antoine-Louis Cornette; awarded the Prix d'Académie by the French Academy in 1931)
• Le Cœur reste le même (1930; novellas)
• Miroirs du temps: psychologie de 80 ans d'expositions (1932)
• Le Jura (1934)
• Ils appelèrent la tempête (1934; awarded the Montyon Prize by the French Academy in 1935)
• La Belle Histoire du roi Albert (1935; illustrated by Roméo Dumoulin)
• Simples gens, simples histoires (1935)
• Un couple de tragédie: le duc et la duchesse d'Alençon (1939)
• Contes d'un temps passé (1946; preface by Jean-Marie Dufeil)
• "Le coeur qui étairt mort," Ecclesia, No. 12 (1950)

References

• Bouet, Lucienne-Ella (1950). "Marguerite Bourcet: Une vocation d'écrivain," Ecclesia, No. 16, pp. 113–16.
• Bouet, Lucienne-Ella (1952). La vie émouvante de Marguerite Bourcet. Paris: Bloud & Gay.
• D'Escola, Marquerite (1938). "Souvenirs de Marguerite Bourcet," Belle jeunesse, No. 46, p. 10.
• Jabouley, Michel-Ange (1964). "Une lauréate de l'Académie de Mâcon: Marguerite Bourcet," Annales de l'Académie de Mâcon, Vol. XLVII, pp. 52–59.
• Laurand, Luce (1965). "Les années mâconnaises de Marguerite Bourcet," Pays Bourgogne, No. 50, pp. 197–99.
• Parvillez, Alphonse de (1939). "La montée souriante de Marguerite Bourcet," Études, Vol. CCXL, pp. 234–44.

External links

• Works by Marguerite Bourcet at Gallica
• Works by Marguerite Bourcet at JSTOR
• Works by Marguerite Bourcet at Open Library