Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau

Sibylle Aimée Marie- Antoinette Gabrielle de Riquetti de Mirabeau, the Countess de Martel de Janville ( born August 16, 1849 at the castle Coëtsal Plumergat, in the department of Morbihan, Brittany, † June 28, 1932 in Neuilly -sur- Seine) was a French writer, who published their works under the pseudonym of " Gyp ".

She was daughter of Count Mirabeau, Joseph- de Riquetti Arundel (1820-1860), and the Countess de Gonneville ( 1827-1903 ).

1869 Sibylle married Count Roger de Martel de Janville. She was the mother of three children.

Your salon in Neuilly -sur -Seine attended among others Robert de Montesquiou, Marcel Proust, Edgar Degas, Maurice Barres, Anatole France, Paul Valery, Alphonse Daudet and Jean -Louis Forain.

Gyp wrote many novels, mostly satirical content. Their political views were influenced extremely conservative. She hated Republicans and Jews. So they welcomed favorably the conviction of Alfred Dreyfus. Your first article was published in February 1877 in La Vie Parisienne, a little later in La Revue des Deux Mondes. From 1880, her novels were published in book form under the cover name " Gyp ". Overall, she wrote 120 novels.

Bibliography

• Silverman, Willa Z.: The Notorious Life of Gyp - Right -Wing Anarchist in Fin -de- Siècle France. Oxford University Press, New York 1995, ISBN 978-0-19-508754-3
• Olivier de Brabois: Gyp Comtesse de Mirabeau Martel 1849-1932. Publibook, 2003, ISBN 978-2748315929

• Literature ( French)
• Author
• Frenchman
• Born in 1849
• Died in 1932
• Woman