Arvède Barine
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Arvède Barine was a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 writer and historian. Arvède Barine was the pseudonym of Mme. Charles Vincens, born Louise-Cécile Bouffé on 17 November 1840. She mostly wrote on the subject of women, but she also wrote about travel and the political issues of the day. She died on 14 November 1908.

Work

  • Translation of Tolstoy
    Tolstoy
    Tolstoy, or Tolstoi is a prominent family of Russian nobility, descending from Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy who served under Vasily II of Moscow...

    's "Souvenirs" (1886)
  • "Portraits de Femmes" (1887, 3rd. ed. 1902)
  • "Essais et Fantaisies" (1888)
  • "Princesses et Grandes Dames" (1890, 6th. ed. 1902)
  • "Bernardin de Saint-Pierre" (1891)
  • "Alfred de Musset
    Alfred de Musset
    Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle from 1836.-Biography:Musset was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris...

    " (1893, 3rd. ed. 1900)
  • "Louis XIV et la Grande Mademoiselle
    Anne, Duchess of Montpensier
    Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, known as La Grande Mademoiselle, was the eldest daughter of Gaston d'Orléans, and his first wife Marie de Bourbon. One of the greatest heiresses in history, she died unmarried and childless, leaving her vast fortune to her cousin, Philippe of...

    (1652-1693)" (1905)
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