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Noailles, Anna deWe have 1 book for this author.Anne de Noailles (born Anna-Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba; November 1 or November 15, 1876 – April 30, 1933, was a French writer and a descendant of the Bibescu and Craioveşti families of Romanian boyars. Biography
Born in Paris, she was the daughter of exiled Prince Grégoire Bibesco-Bassaraba, son of Wallachian Prince Gheorghe Bibescu and Zoe Brâncoveanu, and a Greek mother, Ralouka (Rachel) Musurus. Her mother, a well known musician, for whom the Polish composer Ignacy Paderewski dedicated several of his compositions. In 1897 she married Mathieu Fernand Frédéric Pascal, marquis de Noailles (1873-1942), and the couple soon became the toast of Parisian high society. Using the nom de plume Anne de Noailles, she wrote three novels, an autobiography, and a number of poems. At the beginning of the 20th century, her salon on the Avenue Hoche attracted the intellectual, literary and artistic elite of the day including Francis Jammes, Paul Claudel, Colette, André Gide, Frédéric Mistral, Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, Paul Valéry, Jean Cocteau, Alphonse Daudet, Pierre Loti, Paul Hervieu, and Max Jacob. So popular was de Noailles that various notable artists of the day painted her portrait. In 1899, it was Antonio de la Gandara, then Kees van Dongen, Jacques Émile Blanche, and, in the picture seen here, by the British portrait painter Philip Alexius de Laszlo. As well, in 1906 her image was sculpted by Auguste Rodin, and can be seen today in the Musée Rodin in Paris. Anne de Noailles was the first woman to become a Commander of the Legion of Honor, and the Académie Française named a prize in her honor. She died in 1933 and was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Writings
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