Claude Silve


Claude Silve, née Philomène Marie Charlotte Gaudérique Félicité Ghislaine de Lévis-Mirepoix, was a French writer, recipient of the Prix Femina, a French literary prize, in 1935 for her novel Bénédiction.
She also received the Prix Maillé-Latour-Landry of the Académie Française in 1912 for her first book, La Cité des lampes.
She was born into a noble family, The House of Lévis, and was the sister of writer and historian Antoine de Lévis-Mirepoix.
On May 29, 1927, she married , thus becoming Countess Jules de La Forest Divonne, though she is most commonly remembered by her pen name, Claude Silve.

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