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Marie-Anne de Bovet
1855–1943
A French novelist, journalist, and essayist, she wrote with energy and range across fiction, travel writing, and literary criticism. Her long career stretched from the late 19th century well into the 1930s, reflecting both the literary world of the Belle Époque and the political tensions of her time.
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Après le divorce
by Marie-Anne de Bovet
About the author
Born in Metz in 1855, Marie-Anne de Bovet was a French woman of letters who also wrote under the name "Mab." She published widely as a journalist and critic, contributing to major newspapers and reviews, and later became known as the Marquise de Bois-Hébert after her marriage.
Her writing career was remarkably productive. From the 1890s through 1930 she published dozens of novels, alongside travel writing and other nonfiction, and she was still producing work in the mid-1930s when she was around eighty. Sources also describe her as a feminist and a patriot, suggesting a writer closely engaged with the public debates of her era.
Today, she is remembered as a versatile French author whose work moved between storytelling, commentary, and observation. That mix gives her books a strong sense of the world they came from, while also showing the determination of a writer who kept publishing across several decades.