Gabrielle Soumet

Gabrielle Soumet was born on March 17, 1814, in Paris.{{cite book |last1=Gubernatis |first1=Angelo De |title=Dictionnaire international des écrivains du jour |date=1888 |publisher=L. Niccolai |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dWQ9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47 |access-date=14 September 2024 |language=fr |chapter=Altenheim (Gabrielle Soumet dame Beuvain d')}} {{Source-attribution}} Her father was Alexandre Soumet, a poet and playwright well known in the 19th century. She showed a great inclination for poetry from an early age.

In 1834, she married Beuvain d'Altenheim,{{cite web |title=À propos de Louise Gabrielle Soumet, fille d'Alexandre Soumet et de Madame Blondel de la Rougerie - Christine Belcikowski |url=http://belcikowski.org/PluXml/article424/propos-louise-gabrielle-soumet-fille-alexandre-soumet-et-madame-blondel-rougerie |website=belcikowski.org |access-date=14 September 2024}} who was born in Altenheim.

In 1838, she wrote Les nouvelles succursales (Nouvelles subsidiaries), which she had almost all written as a young girl, and which she signed Gabrielle d'Altenheim, the name by which she is exclusively known.

On April 24, 1841, she had the Gladiateur : tragédie en 5 actes (Gladiator : tragedy in 5 acts) performed at the Comédie-Française; it was written by her in collaboration with her father. It was performed the same evening as Le Chêne du Roi (The King's Oak), a historical comedy in one act by the latter. These two plays had the same critical success and were printed under the title: Une soirée au théâtre français (An evening at the French theater). In 1844, she wrote Jane Grey: tragédie en cinq actes et en vers (Jane Grey, a tragedy in five acts and in verse) with her father which was presented at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe on March 5, 1844.{{cite book |last1=Gallet |first1=Damien Colas |title=« Aux sources du personnage de Norma », Bollettino del centro belliniano di studi, 1 (2015), 5-37 |publisher=Bollettino del centro belliniano di studi |page=52 |url=https://www.academia.edu/20136907 |language=fr}} Subsequently, she mainly wrote collections of poems. After 1844, Soumet wrote nothing more for the theatre.

She published a certain number of works among which are included: "Berthe Bertha", poem, 1843; Récits de l'histoire d'Angleterre depuis Jules-César jusqu'à nos jours première (Stories of the history of England from Julius Caesar to the present day), first edition 1856, 4th, 1879; Récits de l'histoire de Rome payenne (Stories of the history of pagan Rome), 1856; les Marguerites de France (The Marguerites of France), 1858; les Deux frères (The Two Brothers), 1858; les Quatre siècles littéraires (The Four Literary Centuries), 1859, 4th ed. 1869; and Anecdotes édifiantes (Edifying Anecdotes), 1875. She kept in her portfolio, in addition to several pieces by her father and herself, a translation into verse of Nuits d'Young (Young's Nights), and a study on the Jacquerie.

Committed to the feminist newspaper La voix des femmes, she signed with the initials "G.S.", which drew criticism for wanting to usurp George Sand's fame.{{cite book |last1=Maillard |first1=Firmin |title=La légende de la femme émancipée : histoires de femmes, pour servir à l'histoire contemporaine / Firmin Maillard |date=1886 |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2029840 |access-date=14 September 2024 |language=fr}} She was a member of the Women's Club created by Eugénie Niboyet.

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• Les Filiales, collection of poems, 1836
• Le Gladiateur, tragedy, with Alexandre Soumet, 1841
• Le Clône du roi, with Alexandre Soumet, 1841
• Jane Grey, tragedy, with Alexandre Soumet, 1844
• Berthe Bertha, poem, 1843
• Le siècle de Lamartine, 1848
• Récits de l'Histoire d'Angleterre, 1856
• Les Marguerite de France
• La Croix et la Lyre, 1858
• Les Quatre Siècles littéraires, 1859
• Récits de l'Histoire d'Espagne, 1865
• Dieu pardonne, 1871
• Journal des jeunes personnes

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