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| Born | Gabrielle Élise Victoire Logerot (1869-12-20)20 December 1869 Viterbo, France |
| Died | 15 October 1938(1938-10-15) (aged 68) Lyon, France |
| Resting place | Cap-d'Ail, France |
| Pen name | Gabrielle Reval |
| Occupation | writer |
| Language | French |
| Nationality | French |
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Gabrielle Réval (alsoG. Réval) was thepen name ofGabrielle Élise Victoire Logerot (20 December 1869 – 15 October 1938), a French novelist and essayist.
Gabrielle Réval was born as Gabrielle Élise Victoire Logerot on 20 December 1869, inViterbo. She was a student at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles (ENSJF) inSèvres, receiving her teaching diploma in 1890.[1]
After successfully passing theagrégation in 1893, she taught at the girls' high school inNiort.[1]
Choosing the pen name "Réval", in several of her novels, she wrote about girls in their schools and their place in society, for example,Lycéennes (1902) andLa Bachelière (1910).[2] She was noticed from her first book,Les Sévriennes (1900), in which she describes her experiences in Sèvres.
In 1904, when the issue of girls' primary and secondary education was gaining attention, she publishedL’Avenir de nos filles, a work listing women's professions. She underscored the precariousness for women to become authors: "Only a rich woman can, to some extent, reconcile her duties as a mother with those as a writer".[3]
In November that year, she co-founded "le prix Vie heureuse" (Happy Life award),[4] which later became thePrix Femina. With 21 other women who contributed to the journalLa Vie heureuse, she sought to develop an alternative to thePrix Goncourt, consideredmisogynistic.
From its inception until her death, she was an active member of the "Club des Belles Perdrix", the first French women writers' gastronomic club, which she co-founded at the restaurant Chez les Vikings, on 18 January 1928, together with some 20 others.[5]
In 1938, she received the Prix d'Académie[6] from theAcadémie Française for her life's work. She died on 15 October 1938, inLyon, and is buried inCap-d'Ail, on theFrench Riviera where she stayed regularly and often wrote about.
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