Max Du Veuzit

Born Alphonsine Zéphirine Vavasseur, she wrote under the name Max du Veuzit and became a well-known French novelist. Library and public-domain records identify her as Max Du Veuzit (1886–1952), and Project Gutenberg also lists the related name Alphonsine Simonet among her aliases.

She is remembered above all as a writer of popular fiction: sentimental, dramatic novels that were published in large numbers and found a broad audience. The surviving editions of her work show how visible she remained to readers, with titles such as L'Aumone, Paternité, Le Noël des Petits Gueux, and C'est la loi! still traceable through major library and public-domain collections.

Although concise biographical information is harder to pin down than her publishing record, the available sources make clear that Max du Veuzit built a substantial career and left behind a long shelf of widely read novels. For listeners who enjoy rediscovering overlooked bestselling authors, her work offers a window into the tastes and storytelling styles of popular French literature in the early 1900s.