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Arvède Barine
1840–1908
A sharp-eyed French writer and historian, she built her reputation with lively studies of women, literature, travel, and public life. Writing under a pen name, she became a well-known voice in late 19th-century literary culture.
4 Audiobooks
Alfred de Musset
by Arvède Barine
Bernardin de St. Pierre
by Arvède Barine
Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, 1652-1693
by Arvède Barine
La Grande Mademoiselle, 1627-1652
by Arvède Barine
About the author
Born Louise-Cécile Bouffé in 1840, she wrote under the pseudonym Arvède Barine and was also known as Mme. Charles Vincens. She was a French writer and historian whose work ranged across biography, literary criticism, travel writing, and commentary on the issues of her day.
Her writing is especially associated with books about women and with studies of literary figures and imaginative literature, including authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and E. T. A. Hoffmann. Modern scholarship notes that her histories, biographies, and criticism were widely read in France and beyond during her lifetime.
Arvède Barine died in Paris in 1908. Though she is less widely known now than she was in her own era, her work still offers a vivid window into French intellectual life at the end of the 19th century.