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
BornLucie Sophie Catherine Bessirard de La Touche
20 April 1839
Paris, France
Died3 May 1877
Arcachon, France
Pen nameMme. B. Boissonnas
Occupationwriter
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrench
Notable worksUne famille pendant la guerre
Notable awardsMontyon Prize
Spouse
Jean-Baptiste Boissonnas
(m. 1858)
Children6

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.

Une famille pendant la guerre, 1873
Un Vaincu, 1875

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

  1. "Registres paroissiaux et d'état civil (1538-1935)". Archives départementales de la Gironde (in French). Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  2. Selon l'état-civil reconstitué de la ville de Paris.
  3. "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.
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