Anna de Noailles

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Not to be confused with Anne de Noailles, Duke of Noailles or Anne de Noailles (1729–1794).
Anna de Noailles
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Anna, Comtesse de Noailles, 1922
Born Anna Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan
(1876-11-15)15 November 1876
Paris, France
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Paris, France
Resting place Père Lachaise Cemetery
Occupation Novelist, poet
Language French
Notable awards Commander of the Legion of Honor
Spouse Mathieu Fernand Frédéric Pascal de Noailles
Children 1

Anna, Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles (Anna Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan) (15 November 1876 – 30 April 1933) was a French writer of Romanian and Greek descent, a poet and a socialist feminist.[1]

Biography

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Personal life

Born Princess Anna Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan in Paris, she was a descendant of the Bibescu and Craioveşti families of Romanian boyars. Her father was Prince Grégoire Bibesco-Bassaraba, a son of Wallachian Prince Gheorghe Bibesco and Zoe Mavrocordato-Bassaraba de Brancovan. Her Greek mother was the former Ralouka (Rachel) Mussurus, a musician, to whom the Polish composer Ignacy Paderewski dedicated several of his compositions. Via her mother, Anna de Noailles was a great-great-granddaughter of Sophronius of Vratsa, one of the leading figures of the Bulgarian National Revival, through his grandson Stefan Bogoridi, caimacam of Moldavia.[2]

In 1897 she married Mathieu Fernand Frédéric Pascal de Noailles (1873–1942), the fourth son of the 7th Duke de Noailles. The couple soon became the toast of Parisian high society. They had one child, a son, Count Anne-Jules de Noailles (1900–1979).

Career

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Anna de Noailles, portrait by Ignacio Zuloaga, 1913

Anna de Noailles wrote three novels, an autobiography, and many collections of poetry. She had friendly relations with the intellectual, literary and artistic elite of the day including Marcel Proust, Francis Jammes, Colette, André Gide, Frédéric Mistral, Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Valéry, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Loti, Paul Hervieu, and Max Jacob.

A New York Times writer in 1929 wrote that she was "one of the finest poets of present-day France."[3]

She died in 1933 in Paris, aged 56, and was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. She was a cousin of Prince Antoine Bibesco and Princess Marthe Bibesco.

Portrait by Philip de László, 1913

In fine art

So popular was Anna de Noailles that various notable artists of the day painted her portrait, including Antonio de la Gandara, Ignacio Zuloaga, Kees van Dongen, Jacques Émile Blanche, and the British portrait painter Philip de László. In 1906 her image was sculpted by Auguste Rodin; the clay model can be seen today in the Musée Rodin in Paris, and the finished marble bust is on display in New York's Metropolitan Museum.

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    Anna, Comtesse de Noailles, 1914 by Jean-Louis Forain

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    Anna, Comtesse de Noailles, 1936 by James Vibert

Awards

Anna de Noailles was the first woman to become a Commander of the Legion of Honor, the first woman to be received in the Royal Belgian Academy of French Language and Literature, and she was honored with the "Grand Prix" of the Académie Française in 1921.[4]

Countess de Noailles served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919–1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.[5]

Writings

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  • Le Cœur innombrable (1901)
  • L'Ombre des jours (1902)
  • La Nouvelle Espérance (1903)
  • Le Visage émerveillé (1904)
  • La Domination (1905)
  • Les Éblouissements (1907)
  • Les Vivants et les Morts (1913)
  • Les Forces éternelles (1920)
  • Les Innocentes, ou La Sagesse des femmes (1923)
  • Poème de l'amour (1924)
  • L'Honneur de souffrir (1927)
  • Exactitudes, Paris (1930)
  • Le Livre de ma vie (1932)
  • Derniers Vers et Poèmes d'enfance (1934)

See also

Notes

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References

  • Benjamin, René (1928). Au soleil de la Poésie, Sous l'œil en fleur de Madame de Noailles. Paris: Librairie des Champs-Élysées.
  • Borély, Marthe (1939). L'émouvante destinée d'Anna de Noailles. Paris: Éditions Albert.
  • Broche, François (1989). Anna de Noailles. Paris: Robert Laffont.
  • Hanganu, George (1938). Les symphonies dans l'œuvre poétique d'Anna de Noailles. Cluj: Tipografia Lumina.
  • Nelly, Sanchez (2013). "Anna de Noailles, romancière de l'ennui," Eidôlon, No. 105, pp. 145–55.

External links

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  4. ↑ Catherine Perry, Sensual Deviations and Verbal Abuse: Anna de Noailles in the Critic's Eye, in Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr, Eds., A 'Belle Epoque'? Women in French Society and Culture 1890-1914. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2006, p.239.
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