G. (Guy) Chantepleure

Born Jeanne-Caroline Augusta Violet Dussap in Paris on February 1, 1870, she wrote under the pen name Guy Chantepleure, sometimes also Guy de Chantepleure. She became well known in France for novels that were widely read in the early 1900s, and she is especially remembered for Ma conscience en robe rose, which received a Montyon Prize from the Académie française.

She was also a traveler as well as a novelist. Married to Edgar Dussap, a French diplomat, she wrote about the places she visited and turned those experiences into travel books and memoir-like works, adding a broader, worldly note to her fiction.

Chantepleure died in Mayenne on June 26, 1951. Though not as famous today as she once was, her work offers a lively glimpse of popular French writing from the Belle Époque and the decades that followed.