Marie Régnier

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
Illustration by Félix et Frédéric Régamey from Daniel Darc's book, La Princesse Méduse (Paris, 1880)

References

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

Bibliography

  • Émile Gérard-Gailly, Flaubert et Daniel Darc (1934) (22p.) (second edition in Le grand amour de Flaubert (1944), p. 229-256)
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