author
Paule Régnier
1888–1950
A quietly powerful French novelist, she won major literary prizes in the 1920s and 1930s and became best known for fiction shaped by introspection, solitude, and spiritual tension.
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La vivante paix
by Paule Régnier
About the author
Born in Fontainebleau on June 19, 1888, Paule Régnier was a French writer whose full name was Paule Joseph Marie Eugénie Charlotte Régnier. She published novels, journals, and other writings, and built a reputation for deeply inward, emotionally searching work.
Her career brought notable recognition from the Académie française. La Vivante Paix received the Prix Balzac in 1924, Heureuse faute won the Prix Paul Flat in 1929, and L'Abbaye d'Évolayne earned the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1934.
Régnier died in Meudon on December 1, 1950. Though she is less widely known today than some of her contemporaries, her books continue to attract readers interested in elegant French prose and novels that explore inner life with unusual seriousness.