author
Jean de La Brète
1854–1945
A French novelist who wrote under a pen name, she became a major popular success with warm, witty stories aimed at young women. Her best-known book, Mon oncle et mon curé, won an Académie française prize and went on to be adapted for the stage and screen.
6 Audiobooks
Mon oncle et mon curé; Le voeu de Nadia
by Jean de La Brète
Un vaincu
by Jean de La Brète
Aimer quand même
by Jean de La Brète
Ames inconnues : Notes intimes d'un séminariste
by Jean de La Brète
Mi tio y mi cura
by Jean de La Brète
Badinage
by Jean de La Brète
About the author
Born Alice Cherbonnel in Saumur in 1858, she published as Jean de La Brète and built a wide readership with novels written especially for young women. Her work was known for its accessible style and broad popular appeal.
Her breakthrough came with Mon oncle et mon curé in 1889. The novel enjoyed exceptional bookstore success, received the Prix Montyon from the Académie française in 1890, and remained her most famous work.
She died in Cizay-la-Madeleine, Maine-et-Loire, on August 23, 1945. Today she is remembered as a widely read French popular novelist whose fiction connected strongly with generations of readers.