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Olga de Pitray
1835–1909
Born into the famous de Ségur family, this French writer carried on a lively literary tradition with stories, memoirs, and books for younger readers. Her work offers a warm glimpse of family life, faith, and the values of 19th-century France.
2 Audiobooks
Voyages abracadabrants du gros Philéas
by Olga de Pitray
Les enfants des Tuileries
by Olga de Pitray
About the author
Olga de Pitray, born Olga de Ségur in 1835, was a French writer and the daughter of Sophie Rostopchine, better known as the Comtesse de Ségur. She grew up at the Château des Nouettes in Normandy, in a family deeply connected to French literary and religious life.
Writing under the name Olga de Pitray after her marriage to Émile de Simard de Pitray, she published fiction as well as intimate family recollections. Among the works linked to her are Mon bon Gaston, a memoir about her brother Gaston de Ségur, and Ma chère Maman, devoted to her mother. Her books are often associated with the moral and family-centered spirit that also shaped her mother's well-known writing for young readers.
Library and reference sources identify her as a woman of letters active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some sources give her death year as 1920 rather than 1909, so that detail appears to be recorded inconsistently.