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Colette Yver

コレット・イヴェール

Koretto Ivēru

Aliases: Antoinette de Bergevin

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1874-07-28 （Segré (Maine-et-Loire)）
Died
1953-03-17 （Rouen） age 78
Nationality
フランス人
Languages
French
Religion
Roman Catholic
Residence History
Segré → Rouen

Career

Occupations
writer, novelist
Active Years
1892-1953
Affiliations
Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen
Memberships
Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen

Awards

Prix Femina
1907
Work: Princesses de science
Organization: Prix Femina committee
Result: winner
Légion d'honneur
1931
Category: 騎士 (Chevalier)
Organization: French Government
Result: 受章

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Princesses de science

1907 novel

A book referring to the difficulties encountered by women in reconciling family and scientific careers.

women's rolesbalancing science and familyanti-feminism

Le Métier de Roi

1911 novel

Comment s'en vont les Reines

1916 novel

Bibliography

  • Princesses de science (1907)
  • Le Métier de Roi (1911)
  • Comment s'en vont les Reines (1916)
  • Les cousins riches (1919)
  • Dans le jardin du féminisme (1920)
  • Les Dames du Palais (1909)
  • Aujourd'hui... (1926)
  • La Bergerie (1928)
  • Les Cervelines (1908)
  • Femmes d'aujourd'hui (1929)
  • Vincent ou La Solitude (1931)
  • Le Vote des femmes (1932)
  • Un coin du voile (1912)
  • Les sables mouvants (1913)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
anti-feminist fictionintended for female audiencedepicting misfortunes of emancipated women
Recurring Motifs
misfortunes of emancipated womenimportance of home lifefailures of independent women

Legacy

Prolific writer representative of anti-feminist fiction under the Third Republic. Winner and long-time jury member of Prix Femina.

Trivia

  • Birth name Antoinette de Bergevin.
  • Sister Marguerite wrote children's tales under pseudonym 'Hélène Avril'.
  • Buried at cimetière monumental de Rouen.