Henry Gréville
Novelist, Author
1842 – 1902
Who was Henry Gréville?
Henry Gréville, pen name for Mrs. Alice Durand, born Fleury, was a French writer.
The daughter of a professor, she accompagned her father to St. Petersburg, studied languages and science and married Émile Durand, a French law professor at Petersburg, with whom she returned to France in 1872.
Gréville had already published novels in St. Petersburg journals: A travers des champs and Sonia, and continued her production in France, first with the novels Dosia and L'Expiation de Savéli, depicting Russian society. Dosia was awarded the Montbon prize and saw many editions. Her books were translated in many European languages.
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