Marguerite Yourcenar

MargueriteYourcenar, is born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck CRAYENCOUR in 8 June 1903 in Brussels and died December 17, 1987 in Bar Harbor, Maine (United States), is a French writer naturalized American in 1947, author of novels and short stories "humanist", as well as autobiographical. She was also a poet, translator, essayist and literary critic.

She was the first woman elected to the French Academy in 1980, with the active support of Jean Ormesson, who gave the speech of its receipt.

Her novel Memories of Hadrian, in 1951, is a worldwide success and earned her the final status of writer, dedicated in 1970 by her election to the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium, and ten years later, by joining the French Academy, with the active support of the writer and academician Jean d’Ormesson.

 

By Laetitia Capon

She was the first woman elected at

1.      The Academie Francaise
2.      Academy of Sciences
3.      Prime Minister
4.      Goncourt Treat
    
Marguerite Yourcenar wrote a novel that is a worldwide success and earned him the final status of writer
What is the title of the novel that made her world famous?
1.      The Red and Black
2.      Les Miserables
3.      Memories of Hadrian
4.      The Little Prince

Where is dead Marguerite Yourcenar ?

1.      Paris
2.      Beuvry
3.      U.S.A
4.      Brussels