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Marguerite Yourcenar
Novelist, Author
1903 – 1987
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Who was Marguerite Yourcenar?
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3.
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- Born
- Jun 8, 1903
Brussels - Also known as
- Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour
- Parents
- Spouses
- Grace Frick
(1937 - 1979)
- Grace Frick
- Nationality
- United States of America
- France
- Profession
- Lived in
- Maine
- Died
- Dec 17, 1987
Northeast Harbor
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on July 23, 2013
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