Henry Gréville, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henry Gréville

French writer

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1842

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 26-May-1902

Profession: writer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Henry Gréville

  • Henry Gréville (12 October 1842 in Paris – 1902), pen name for Mrs.
  • Alice Durand, born Fleury, was a French writer. The daughter of a professor, she accompanied 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 (1876) and L'Expiation de Savéli (1876), 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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