{{Short description|French writer (1871–1937)}} {{More citations needed |date=April 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = Louis de Robert redux.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Louis de Robert in 1911 | birth_name = | birth_date = 5 March 1871 | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1937|09|27|1871|03|05}} | death_place = Sannois, France | othername = | occupation = Writer | years_active = | spouse = Jeanne Humbert | signature = }} '''Louis de Robert''' ({{IPA|fr|lwi də ʁɔbɛʁ}}; 5 March 1871, Paris – 27 September 1937) was a French writer; he won the Prix Femina in 1911.
==Biography== Robert became friends with the writer Émile Zola during the political scandal Dreyfus affair and took a stand for the revision of the trial.<ref>Quella-Villeger, ''Deux amis dreyfusards de Zola, Paul Brulat et Louis de Robert : Lectures de l'Affaire Dreyfus'', ''Les Cahiers naturalistes'', 1998, vol. 44, n+72, pp. 185–196.</ref>
A regular collaborator in ''The Journal'', with Jules Renard, Alphonse Allais, Octave Mirbeau, he was the first reader of the proofs of the 1913 novel ''Swann's Way'' by his friend Marcel Proust and dissuaded Proust to shorten it.
Robert's novel ''Le Roman du malade'', serialized in ''Le Figaro'' newspaper and then published by the {{ill|Éditions Fasquelle|fr}}, won the 1911 Prix Femina. The novel was admired by the writers Maurice Barres, Anna de Noailles, Robert de Montesquiou and Colette.
He won the prize of the Académie Française.{{clarify |date=April 2025|reason=what prize?}}
==Personal life== Having fallen in love with Jeanne Humbert, thirty years younger, they married at the town hall of Sannois on 8 November 1928. She survived him for more than half a century and published her autobiography, ''Le cœur a ses raisons'', in 1986, on vanity press.
== Works == {{Clarify|date=April 2025|reason=genres needed}} *1894: ''Un tendre'' *1896: ''Papa''<ref>[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5470140r/f5.image ''Papa''] sur Gallica</ref> *1896: ''Fragiles''.<ref>[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0001139591;view=1up;seq=1 ''Fragiles'']</ref> *1897: ''The Eternal Enigma''<ref>[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044022700876;view=1up;seq=1 ''The Eternal Enigma''].</ref> Yvette Guilbert, New York City *1898: ''La Première Femme'' *1900: ''La Reprise'' *1901: ''Le Mauvais Amant'' *1901: ''Le Partage du cœur'' *1911: ''Le Roman du malade'' (winner, Prix Femina) *1912: ''L'envers d'une courtisane'' *1918: ''Le Prince amoureux''<ref>[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k937537q/f1.image ''Le Prince amoureux'']</ref> *1921: ''Réussir'' *1921: ''Reconnais-toi'' *1922: ''Silvestre et Monique'' *1924: ''Paroles d'un solitaire''<ref>[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8798411/f7.image ''Paroles d'un solitaire''] sur Gallica</ref> *1925: ''Octavie'' *1925: ''Comment débuta Marcel Proust, lettres inédites'' *1925: ''Le Préféré'' *1926: ''Le Roman d'une comédienne'' *1927: ''Le Supplice des bourgeois de Premz'' *1927: ''Ni avec toi, ni sans toi'' *1928: ''Souvenirs sur Edmond Rostand'' *1930: ''De l'amour à la sagesse, suivi de Réflexions sur Marcel Proust'' *1931: ''La Rose et le cyprès'' *1932: ''Journal d’un mari'' *1933: ''Tragédie du désir'' *1936: ''Trop belle''
===Posthumous=== * ''Lettres à Paul Faure, 1898–1937'', 1943
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== External links == *[http://www.lareveillee.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Brochure-1995-Louis-de-Robert-par-Philippe-de-Robert.pdf Biographie] *[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/leonore_fr?ACTION=RETROUVER&FIELD_1=Cnoms&VALUE_1=de%20robert&FIELD_2=PRENOMS&VALUE_2=louis&FIELD_3=DATE%2dNSS&VALUE_3=&FIELD_4=LIEU%2dNSS&VALUE_4=&FIELD_5=Nom%20de%20jeune%20fille&VALUE_5=&FIELD_6=SEXE&VALUE_6=%20&FIELD_7=COTE&VALUE_7=&NUMBER=6&GRP=0&REQ=%28%28de%20robert%29%20%3aNOM%2cNOM2%2cNOM%2dJF%2cNOM%2dMARI%2cSURNOM%2cNOTES%20%20ET%20%20%28%28louis%29%20%3aPRENOMS%20%29%29&USRNAME=nobody&USRPWD=4%24%2534P&SPEC=9&SYN=1&IMLY=&MAX1=1&MAX2=1&MAX3=100&DOM=All Officier de la Légion d'honneur] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160821174647/http://fr.topic-topos.com/louis-de-robert Maison de l'écrivain]
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