Lucie Boissonnas
Lucie Boissonnas (née, Bessirard de La Touche; pen name, Mme. B. Boissonnas; 20 April 1839 - 3 May 1877)[1] was a 19th-century French writer. She was the recipient of the Montyon Prize in 1874 for Une famille pendant la guerre (1873). Boissonnas died in 1877.
Lucie Boissonnas | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lucie Sophie Catherine Bessirard de La Touche 20 April 1839 Paris, France |
| Died | 3 May 1877 Arcachon, France |
| Pen name | Mme. B. Boissonnas |
| Occupation | writer |
| Language | French |
| Nationality | French |
| Notable works | Une famille pendant la guerre |
| Notable awards | Montyon Prize |
| Spouse |
Jean-Baptiste Boissonnas
(m. 1858) |
| Children | 6 |
Biography
Lucie Sophie Catherine Bessirard de La Touche was born in Paris, 20 April 1839.[1] She was the daughter of Charles-Alexandre Bessirard de La Touche, director of the Société des Papeteries du Marais et de Sainte-Marie.
In 1858,[2] she married the Parisian banker Jean-Baptiste Boissonnas (1822-1897), with whom she had four sons and two daughters. Among her children were the diplomat and businessman, Jean-Baptiste Boissonnas (1870-1953), father of Éric Boissonnas, and the pastor Georges Boissonnas (1865-1942). She is the great-grandmother of Sylvina Boissonnas. Her husband was the brother of pastor Louis-Octave Boissonnas, as well as from the same family as the photographer, Frédéric Boissonnas.
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Boissonnas published two books with Hetzel editions; both used the name, "Mme. B. Boissonnas". The first, Une famille pendant la guerre (1873), was an epistolary account of her family's experience during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. She received the Montyon Prize in 1874 for this work.[3] The second, Un Vaincu (1875), was written when she was already suffering from tuberculosis, was a biography of General Robert E. Lee, whose daughters she knew.
She died 3 May 1877, of tuberculosis at the age of 38, in Arcachon.[1]
Awards
- 1874, Montyon Prize[3]
Publications
- 1873, Une famille pendant la guerre, Hetzel Ed.
- 1875, Un Vaincu, Hetzel Ed.
References
- "Registres paroissiaux et d'état civil (1538-1935)". Archives départementales de la Gironde (in French). Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- Selon l'état-civil reconstitué de la ville de Paris.
- "Lucie Bessirard de La Touche ou Madame B. de La Touche Boissonnas (1839-1877) - Prix de l'Académie, 1874, Prix Montyon, Une famille pendant la guerre (1870-1871)". www.academie-francaise.fr (in French). Académie française. Retrieved 19 January 2022.