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Biography
Anne de Tourville (26 August 1910, Bais, Ille-et-Vilaine – September 2004, Bais) was a 20th-century French woman of letters.
Biography
The daughter of Jean de Tourville and Marie Lesage de la Haye, she spent her childhood in Morieux then at Saint-Servan. Around 1966, she settled in Dinard where she did not leave until the late 1990s to return to her native village. She lived there peacefully until her death in September 2004 by the children of friends who helped her and her family during the Second World War.
Her novels, rural as "Jabadao", which earned him the Prix Femina, or maritime as "Matelot Gaël", are set in a Brittany half real and half dream.
Writing was not her only talent because she exposed her miniature paintings at the Salon des artistes français.
Works
- 1944: Les gens de par ici, Prix interallié de Bretagne
- 1951: Jabadao, éditions Delamain et Boutelleau, Prix Femina
- 1953: Matelot Gaël
- 1958: Femmes de la mer