Henri Ardel


Henri Ardel was a French writer. She was a recipient of the and of the Ordre des [Palmes académiques].

Biography

Berthe Marie Victorine Palmyre Abraham was born in Amiens on 6 June 1863. Her parents, Lucie Mathilde Pillier and Alphonse Abraham. She lived in Enghien, then Paris. His sister, Marie-Louise, born 10 May 1877, married Georges Le Cordier; a writer herself, she took the pseudonym "Colette Henri-Ardel" after Berthe's death. Bertha was a teacher in a class for young girls. She made her literary debut by sending a short story to who encouraged her. One of the many female writers who took a male pseudonym, she was author of "sentimental novels for ladies" published by Plon, in the Stella collection or in the Nelson collection. These novels were very successful:
During the last ten years of her life, Ardel was involved in a charity to help poor children and to catechize them.
She died on 6 January 1938, and is buried in the Montreuil cemetery in Versailles.

Awards and honours

She was a recipient of the Prix Botta for Cœur de sceptique in 1894, and of the Ordre des Palmes académiques in 1904.

Selected works

  • Près du bonheur, New York, W. R. Jenkins, collection "Contes choisis", no. 18, 1893, with English notes by Eugène Rigal
  • Cœur de sceptique, Prix Botta
  • L'Été de Guillemette, Plon, 1908
  • Colette Bryce au Maroc, Plon, 1937
  • Les Vacances de la famille Bryce, Plon, 1928
  • Le Feu sous la cendre, Nelson, 1928, illustrations by Georges Dutriac
  • Un conte bleu
  • L'Appel souverain
  • La nuit tombe
  • Le Feu sous la cendre
  • Seule, Nelson, 1929, illustrations by Georges Dutriac
  • La petite Moune followed by Le Masque, A. Fayard et Cie, Collection "Jeunes femmes & jeunes filles" no. 17
  • Le Mal d'aimer
  • La Faute d'autrui L'Absence, Plon, 1933
  • Ainsi souffla le vent
  • L'Heure décisive, Plon, 1901
  • Mon cousin Guy, Plon, 1896; English translation: Little Arlette or my cousin Guy by Francis Furey, Kilner, 1899
  • René Orlis
  • Rêve blanc, Plon, collection of La Liseuse no. 102, 1929
  • Le Rêve de Suzy
  • Tout arrive
  • L'Autre Miracle
  • Il était une adroite princesse
  • Les Deux Visages de l'amour
  • Le Chemin qui descend
  • Il faut marier Jean
  • L'Étreinte du passé
  • Les Âmes closes
  • Ève et le Serpent, Plon, 1930