Marie Gasquet was a French regionist writer born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France.-Geography:...

, Bouches-du-Rhône. She was hailed as queen of the Felibrige

Félibrige

The Félibrige is a literary and cultural association founded by Frédéric Mistral and other Provençal writers to defend and promote Occitan language and literature...

 in 1892.

Biography

Marie Gasquet was born in Saint-Remy-de-Provence in 1872. Her father, Marius Girard, was a Provençal

Provence

Provence ; Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a region of south eastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...

 poet. Her godfather

Godparent

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 was Frédéric Mistral

Frédéric Mistral

Frédéric Mistral was a French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language. Mistral won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 and was a founding member of Félibrige and a member of l'Académie de Marseille...

. She moved to Paris where she worked for Flammarion

Flammarion

Flammarion may refer to:* Camille Flammarion , French astronomer* Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion , French astronomer, wife of Camille Flammarion* The Flammarion engraving by unknown artist; appeared in a book by Camille Flammarion...

 and became a successful novelist.

She was married to Joachim Gasquet

Joachim Gasquet

Joachim Gasquet was a French writer, poet, and art critic born in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône. He is best known for his writing about the artists of his era, particularly Paul Cézanne, who was his friend...

, a friend of Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...

's.