Henry Gréville (1) (1842–1902)

Henry Gréville was the pseudonym of Alice Marie Céleste Durand, née Fleury. Her father Jean Fleury was a French writer and professor who took his daughter with him to Russia when he went to teach at the Imperial University in St. Petersburg. She studied languages ​​and sciences there and in 1857, married Émile Durand, a professor of French law. Madame Durand began publishing her fiction in St. Petersburg, and on returning to France in 1872, she took the pen name of Henry Gréville in honor of her parents' home village. She became a popular and prolific writer of novels, poetry, and articles for newspapers and magazines such as Le Figaro and La Nouvelle Revue. A prolific author, trying her hand at the theater as in the short stories, in poetry as in the novel, she was in her time a successful writer. Her 1876 novel Dosia won the Prix Montyon from the Académie française in 1878.