author
V. (Victor) Margueritte
1866–1942
Remembered for the scandal and success of La Garçonne, this French novelist wrote boldly about modern life, gender, and social rules. His work stirred public debate and helped make him one of the best-known literary voices of early 20th-century France.
2 Audiobooks
La garçonne
by V. (Victor) Margueritte
Femmes nouvelles
by Paul Margueritte, V. (Victor) Margueritte
About the author
Born in Blida, Algeria, on December 1, 1866, Victor Margueritte was a French novelist and dramatist, and the younger brother of writer Paul Margueritte. He first pursued a military career before leaving the army in the 1890s and turning fully to literature.
He wrote both on his own and with his brother, but he is best known today for La Garçonne (1922), a hugely successful and controversial novel that challenged social expectations around women, sexuality, and independence. The book caused such an uproar that Margueritte was stripped of the Légion d'honneur soon afterward.
Margueritte was also associated with feminist and pacifist causes, and his public life reflected the same willingness to question convention that shaped his fiction. He died in Monestier, Allier, on March 23, 1942.