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Jeanne Leroy-Allais
1853–1914
A French writer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she is best remembered for books for young readers and for practical, moral writing aimed at family life. She also has a literary family connection as the sister of humorist Alphonse Allais.
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Marie-Rose au couvent
by Jeanne Leroy-Allais
About the author
Born in Honfleur in 1853 and dying there in 1914, Jeanne Leroy-Allais was a French woman of letters whose work circulated widely enough to be preserved by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and other literary archives.
She is associated above all with writing for children and young people, along with books concerned with education and domestic life. Her surviving bibliography shows a steady output across fiction and instructional works, including titles for younger readers and family audiences.
She is also often noted as the elder sister of Alphonse Allais. While that connection is part of how she is remembered today, her own body of work shows a writer with a distinct place in French popular and educational literature of her time.