10 Facts About Mathilde Alanic

Mathilde Alanic was a French writer of sentimental novels and short stories.

Mathilde Alanic's work appeared in Les Annales politiques et litteraires, L'Eventail, Le Magasin pittoresque, Musee des familles, Le National illustre, La Petite Illustration, Le Petit Journal, Le Petit Parisien, Revue de l'Anjou, and other journals.

Mathilde Alanic was born 10 November 1864, in Angers.

Mathilde Alanic's father, Julien Louis Alanic, was an entrepreneur and a Breton house painter from the faubourg Bressigny, in Angers.

Mathilde Alanic attended a Catholic boarding school before becoming a pupil of Henri Bergson at the Ecole Superieure des Lettres in Angers.

Mathilde Alanic wrote a romantic Spanish "novel" for her family's entertainment at the age of nine, versified correspondence to her friends at the age of 11, then short stories under the pseudonym of "Miranda", in the Revue de l'Anjou, L'Eventail, and Parisian reviews, which got her noticed.

Mathilde Alanic then wrote about thirty mainly sentimental novels, but wrote many short stories like "Marianik" in 1899.

Mathilde Alanic's works were appreciated outside France, especially in Belgium and Switzerland.

Mathilde Alanic's works were presented as "classic reading" in schools in England and Germany.

Mathilde Alanic died 20 October 1948 in the city of her birth.