Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert

Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert
Born	6 December 1797(1797-12-06) Mâcon
Died	1 December 1872(1872-12-01) (aged 74) Paris
Pen name	Clémence Robert
Language	French
Nationality	French
Citizenship	French
Genres	historical fiction, military fiction
Subjects	biography, history

Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (6 December 1797 – 1 December 1872) was a French writer of historical fiction, poetry, non-fiction, stage plays, and short stories. She published much of her work as Clémence Robert.

Biography

Mlle Clémence Robert was born in Mâcon near the end of 1797. Although she debuted in 1820, most of her published work succeeded the French Revolution of 1830, and the death of her father. When her father died in 1830, she moved to Paris and went to work in a bookshop. In 1845 she briefly joined the Bernardin convent at Abbaye-aux-Bois. She died in Paris five days before her 75th birthday.

With Camille Leynadier, she compiled and edited the memoirs of Giuseppe Garibaldi, which they presented as a biography, dramatised in parts. Frances J. Reynolds included her short story "Baron de Trenck", translated into English, in the third and final volume of the anthology International Short Stories (1910). The story relates an adventure of the Prussian officer Friedrich von der Trenck, and was inspired by his autobiography.

Published works

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• Le Marquis de Pombal (1844), an historical novel concerning Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquess of Pombal; published in Brussels
• William Shakespeare (1844), French edition published in Brussels; German edition in Leipzig
• Les Quatre Sergents de La Rochelle (1849), lit. "The Four Sergeants of La Rochelle"; published in Paris
• Le Mont Saint-Michel, roman historique (ca. 1856)
• Le Poëte de la Reine (ca. 1859), lit. "The Queen's Poet"; published by Arnauld de Vresse of Paris
• Mémoires authentiques sur Garibaldi (1860), a biography of Garibaldi, published by Fayard of Paris
• Les Victimes du Fanatisme (1864), lit. "Victims of Fanaticism"; published by Arnauld de Vresse of Paris

References

• Vapereau, Louis Gustave, ed. (1858) (in French) Dictionnaire universel des contemporains [Universal Dictionary of Contemporaries] 2 (L–Z) Paris: Hachette Livre p. 1552 OCLC 229946820 

External links

• Works by Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert on Open Library at the Internet Archive
• Works by Clémence Robert at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Persondata
Name	Clémence Robert, Antoinette Henriette
Alternative names	Robert, Clémence
Short description	19th century French writer
Date of birth	6 December 1797
Place of birth	Mâcon, France
Date of death	1 December 1872
Place of death	Paris, France