Agnès de La Gorce (February 8, 1895,
Lille — July 7, 1976,
Paris) was a French writer and historian.
Biography
Agnès de La Gorce is the daughter of the historian and academician
Pierre de La Gorce, to whom she dedicated a work in 1948,[1] and of Marie Mailhard de la Couture; she is the aunt of the journalist and historian Paul-Marie de La Gorce.[2]
In 1959, after having been distinguished several times by the
French Academy, she received the Gustave Le Mallais-Larivière prize for her works.[3]
She was a member of the
Prix Femina jury from 1945 until her death in 1976.[4][5]
Publications
Robert Hugh Benson, prêtre et romancier, 1871-1914, Paris, Plon, 1928, 301 p. (Juteau-Duvigneaux award from the French Academy in 1929)
Les douloureux débuts de Francis Thompson, 1931
Un pauvre qui trouva la joie. Saint Benoît Labre, 1933
Francis Thompson et les poètes catholiques d’Angleterre, Paris, Plon, 1933, 261 p. (Bordin award from the French Academy)
Wesley, maître d'un peuple (1703-1791), 1940 (Eugène Carrière award from the French Academy in 1941)
Saint Benoît Labre : le pèlerin de la joie , Paris, Éditions franciscaines, 1946 ; traduction en anglais : Saint Benedict Joseph Labre (trad. Rosemary Sheed), New York, 1952
Une vocation d’historien : Pierre de La Gorce, Paris, Plon, 1948, 225 p.
Camisards et dragons du Roi , Paris, Albin Michel, 1951, (Albéric-Rocheron award from the French Academy)