Anna de Noailles
Anna Élisabeth de Bibesco Brancovan, married. Comtesse de Noailles (* November 15, 1876 in Paris, † April 30, 1933 ibid ) was a French writer of Romanian origin who operated primarily as a poet.
Life
Anna Élisabeth de Bibesco Brancovan was the daughter of Moldavian prince Grégoire de Bassaraba Brancovan and apparently highly educated Greek- Helena Ralouka Musurus - Pasha. Her great-grandfather, Stefan Vogorides (Romanian: Ştefan Vogoride ), also Stephaniki, called In Samos, the year was 1821 governor (Romanian: caimacan ) the then under Turkish suzerainty of Principality of Moldavia, which was and 1845 independently to 1856 with the Principality of Wallachia merged with the Kingdom of Romania.
Anna grew up in the lap of their traditionally Francophile family in Paris and was taught exclusively by governesses and teachers with the help of her father's library. She was often present in the salon, her mother resulted in the palace of the Brancovans. Age of 13, she wrote passionate poems.
In 1897 she married in Paris from the French altadeliger family originating Mathieu Fernand Frédéric Pascal, Comte [ Count ] de Noailles ( 1873-1942 ). From the marriage, which by all accounts was happy, went forth a son, Anne Jules ( 1900-1979 ).
25 -year-old Anna de Noailles in 1901 published the first of a long series of volumes of poetry. The poet colleagues, especially to Marcel Proust, but also the composer Reynaldo Hahn and the actress Sarah Bernhardt were wowed by the imagery and the expressiveness of the poems, which, however, might correspond to very flowery style of the time for today's readers.
In the literary salon of the beautiful Comtesse soon reversed the intellectual elite of her era, including Francis Jammes, Paul Claudel, Colette, André Gide, Frédéric Mistral, Robert de Montesquiou, Paul Valéry, Jean Cocteau, Alphonse Daudet, Pierre Loti and Max Jacob.
From the early 1920s, she was tied up by a horrible disease increasingly to the bed and had to reduce their social activities radically. However, their creative power remained unbroken until her death in April 1933. Anna Élisabeth, Comtesse de Noailles was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Her heart was buried in the small cemetery of Amphion -les- Bains.