Lucie Boissonnas
{{Short description|French writer}}
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Lucie Boissonnas (née, Bessirard de La Touche; pen name, Mme. B. Boissonnas; 20 April 1839 - 3 May 1877){{cite web |title=Registres paroissiaux et d'état civil (1538-1935) |url=https://archives.gironde.fr/archive/resultats/etatcivil/n:89?RECH_unitdate_exacte=1877&RECH_acte_NMD%5B0%5D=Sepulture+ou+deces&rypo%5B0%5D=registre&type=etatcivil |website=Archives départementales de la Gironde |access-date=19 January 2022 |language=fr}} was a 19th-century French writer. She was the recipient of the Montyon Prize in 1874 for Une famille pendant la guerre (1873). Boissonnas died in 1877.
Biography
Lucie Sophie Catherine Bessirard de La Touche was born in Paris, 20 April 1839. She was the daughter of Charles-Alexandre Bessirard de La Touche, director of the Société des Papeteries du Marais et de Sainte-Marie.
In 1858,Selon l'état-civil reconstitué de la ville de Paris. she married the Parisian banker Jean-Baptiste Boissonnas (1822-1897), with whom she had four sons and two daughters. Among her children were the diplomat and businessman, Jean-Baptiste Boissonnas (1870-1953), father of Éric Boissonnas, and the pastor Georges Boissonnas (1865-1942). She is the great-grandmother of Sylvina Boissonnas. Her husband was the brother of pastor Louis-Octave Boissonnas, as well as from the same family as the photographer, Frédéric Boissonnas.
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Boissonnas published two books with Hetzel editions; both used the name, "Mme. B. Boissonnas". The first, Une famille pendant la guerre (1873), was an epistolary account of her family's experience during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. She received the Montyon Prize in 1874 for this work.{{cite web |title=Lucie Bessirard de La Touche ou Madame B. de La Touche Boissonnas (1839-1877) - Prix de l’Académie, 1874, Prix Montyon, Une famille pendant la guerre (1870-1871) |url=https://www.academie-francaise.fr/node/16904 |website=www.academie-francaise.fr |publisher=Académie française |access-date=19 January 2022 |language=fr}} The second, Un Vaincu (1875), was written when she was already suffering from tuberculosis, was a biography of General Robert E. Lee, whose daughters she knew.
She died 3 May 1877, of tuberculosis at the age of 38, in Arcachon.
Awards
Publications
- 1873, Une famille pendant la guerre, Hetzel Ed.
- 1875, Un Vaincu, Hetzel Ed.
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Category:19th-century French non-fiction writers