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Noailles, Anna de (1876-1933). French poet and novelist, showing a clear affiliation to the Romantic mode of personal lyricism, with an immediacy of emotional response and an energetic flow of imagery. A celebratory ‘pantheistic’ conflation of Nature, the universe, and God informs Le Cœur innombrable (1901), Les Éblouissements (1907), Les Forces éternelles (1920), and Le Poème de l'amour (1925). The novels chart strong emotional impulses towards religious purity or physical passion: La Nouvelle Espérance (1903), Le Visage émerveillé (1904). She also wrote evocative autobiographical and travel sketches: De la rive d'Europe à la rive d'Asie (1913), Le Livre de ma vie (1932).

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Noailles, Anna Élisabeth de Brancovan, comtesse de (änä' ālēzäbĕt' də bräNkôväN' kôNtĕs' də nōī'), 1876-1933, French poet, daughter of a noble Romanian family. She was renowned for the brilliant gatherings at her home. Her turbulent romantic lyrics of love and nature, many of which appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes, were gathered in Le Cœur innombrable (1901), L'Ombre des jours (1902), and Poèmes d'enfance (1928). She also wrote short stories, sensuous novels including La Nouvelle Espérance (1903) and Le Visage émerveillé (1904), and an autobiography (1932).
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Anna, Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles (born Princess Anna Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan; 15 November 1876 – 30 April 1933 (56 years), was a romanian French writer.

Biography

Born in Paris and a descendant of the Bibescu and Craioveşti families of Romanian boyars, she was the daughter of Prince Grégoire Bibesco-Bassaraba, a son of Wallachian Prince Gheorghe Bibesco de Brancovan and Zoe Brâncoveanu. Her Greek mother was the former Ralouka (Rachel) Musuru, a well known musician, to whom the Polish composer Ignacy Paderewski dedicated several of compositions.

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).

Anna de Noailles wrote three novels, an autobiography, and many poems. 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, Paul Valéry, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Loti, Paul Hervieu, and Max Jacob.

So popular was Anna de Noailles that various notable artists of the day painted her portrait, including Antonio de la Gandara, Kees van Dongen, Jacques Émile Blanche, and the British portrait painter Philip de Laszlo. 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.

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.

She died in 1933 and was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Writings

  • 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)
  • Derniers Vers et Poèmes d'enfance (1934)

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