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G. (Guy) Chantepleure
1870–1951
A French novelist and travel writer who published under a masculine pen name, she built a long career that stretched from the 1890s into the mid-20th century. She is especially remembered for "Ma conscience en robe rose," an early success that brought her literary recognition.
4 Audiobooks
Les ruines en fleur
by G. (Guy) Chantepleure
Sattuma ja rakkaus
by G. (Guy) Chantepleure
La passagère
by G. (Guy) Chantepleure
Ma conscience en robe rose
by G. (Guy) Chantepleure
About the author
Born Jeanne-Caroline Augusta Violet Dussap in Paris on February 1, 1870, she wrote under the names Guy Chantepleure and Guy de Chantepleure. Her work included both novels and travel writing, and she remained active across a remarkably long period of French literary life.
She is best known for Ma conscience en robe rose (1895), which received a Montyon Prize in 1896. Reference sources also identify her as the wife of diplomat Edgar Dussap, a detail that helps explain the broader international and observational side of her writing.
She died in Mayenne on June 26, 1951. Though not as widely read today as some of her contemporaries, she left behind a substantial body of fiction and nonfiction that reflects the interests of a prolific French author and traveler.