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pseudonym of Marie Therese Blanc. A French novelist and litterateur; born at Seine-Port, Sept. 21, 1840. She has been for many years on the editorial staff of the Revue des Deux Mondes, to which she has contributed notable translations and reviews of many American, English, and German authors. Her literary essays on these contemporaneous writers were collected in "Foreign Literature and Customs" (1882) and "Recent American Novelists" (1885). Her first work to attract attention was "A Divorce" (1871), published in the Journal des Debats. Two other novels, "A Remorse" (1879) and "Tony" (1889), were crowned by the French Academy. Other stories are: "Georgette" and "Jacqueline" (1893). The fruit of her first visit to the United States was "Condition of Woman in the United States" (1895); "Tales from All Countries".