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Louise d' Alq
1840–1910
A journalist, editor, translator, and author of practical guides, Louise d’Alq brought literature and everyday education together in works for young readers, families, and society. Her influential writing on etiquette and her anthology of women writers made her a distinctive voice in French publishing at the turn of the twentieth century.
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About the author
Marie-Louise Alquié de Rieupeyroux, known by the pen name Louise d’Alq, was born in Paris on May 31, 1840, and died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on August 2, 1910. She worked as a journalist, editor, translator, and writer, with interests ranging from education and manners to literature for young people.
Louise d’Alq owned and directed the periodicals Les Causeries familières and Paris Charmant. Her many publications included Notes d’une mère, Le Maître et la maîtresse de maison, Le Nouveau Savoir-vivre universel, and the young-adult novels La Conquête de la liberté and L’Enfant recueillie.
Her Anthologie féminine, published in 1893, surveyed women writers, poets, and prose authors from the beginnings of the French language to her own time. The work earned the Prix Lambert in 1894, and she was also named an officer of the French public-education service.