Marie Régnier

French writer (b. 1840, d. 1887)

Marie Régnier (July 11, 1840 in Paris – March 18, 1887 in Paris) was a French writer; a friend of Gustave Flaubert, she exchanged many letters with him.

She wrote under the penname of Daniel Darc.^[1]

Life

Born Marie-Sidonie Serrure, she married in 1861 Raoul-Emmanuel Régnier, a doctor, and went to live with him at Mantes-la-Jolie; she came back to live in Paris in 1881.^[2]^[1]

She was a regular contributor to the daily newspaper Le Figaro.^[1]

Works

Une aventure d'hier (1870) (under the pen name Daniel Darcey) (Paul Ollendorff, 1885)
Revanche posthume (1878)
Les Rieuses (Comédie) (1878 [1886])
La Princesse Méduse (Paris, 1880), with illustrations by Félix Régamey and his brother Frédéric Régamey

Un duel de salon
Les folies de Valentine (drama) (1880)
Le Péché d'une vierge (1881)
La couleuvre (1882)
Petit Bréviaire du Parisien, dictionnaire humoristique (1883)
Voilà le plaisir, Mesdames (Short stories) (1883)
Voyage autour du bonheur (1884)
Canifs et contrat (Short stories) (1884)
Sagesse de poche, maximes et pensées
Joyeuse Vie. Polygamie parisienne (1886).
Les femmes inquiétantes et Les maris comiques. Suivis de Les anges du foyer, with illustrations by Godefroy (1886)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c P. Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle : français, historique, géographique, mythologique, bibliographique.... T. 17 Suppl. 2, s.v.
^ G. Flaubert, Œuvres complètes (2014), p. 6687.