Elvire de Brissac

Elvire de Brissac
Born January 19, 1939 (1939-01-19) (age 77)
Residence Château d'Apremont-sur-Allier
Occupation Novelist, biographer
Parent(s) Pierre de Cossé Brissac, 12th Duke of Brissac
Marie-Zélie Schneider
Relatives Eugène Schneider (maternal great-great-grandfather)
Henri Schneider (maternal great-grandfather)
Eugène Schneider, II (maternal grandfather)
Charles Schneider (maternal uncle)
Lilian Constantini (maternal aunt)

Elvire de Brissac (born 1939) is a French novelist and biographer.

Early life

Château de Brissac

Elvire de Brissac was born on January 19, 1939.[1] Her father, Pierre de Cossé Brissac, was the 12th Duke of Brissac, a businessman and author.[1] Her mother, Marie-Zélie Schneider, a.k.a. May Schneider, was an heiress to the Schneider-Creusot fortune.[1] She grew up at the Château de Brissac in Brissac-Quincé, Maine-et-Loire, France.

Career

She is a novelist and biographer.[1]

She received the Prix des Deux Magots for A Pleur-Joie in 1969, the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle and the Prix Contrepoint for Un long mois de septembre in 1972, the Prix Goncourt for Les anges d'en bas in 1999, and the Prix Femina Essai for Ô dix-neuvième! in 2001.

Personal life

Château d'Apremont-sur-Allier

She resides at the Château d'Apremont-sur-Allier in Apremont-sur-Allier, Cher, France.[1][2] She is unmarried.[1]

Bibliography

Novels

Biographies

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Philippe Lançon, Elvire de Brissac. Proust au berceau, Libération, February 3, 2014
  2. Michel Legris, Apremont-sur-Allier (Cher), L'Express, June 24, 1993


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