page_title: Marie de Régnier
section_title: Critical reception and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Marie de Régnier / Critical reception and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: J.E. Blanche painting in his studio Français&#160;: Marie de Heredia, née Marie-Louise-Antoinette de Régnier, dite Gérard d'Houville, (1875-1963) posant pour son portrait dans l'atelier de Jacques-Émile Blanche
context_page_description: Marie de Régnier, also known by her maiden name Marie de Heredia or her pen-name Gérard d'Houville, was a French novelist and poet, and closely involved in the artistic circles of early twentieth-century Paris.
context_section_description: De Heredia's work was acclaimed throughout her career and she was a popular writer with the public as well as critics. When French newspaper L'Intransigeant asked readers in 1910 to name the top three female writers deserving of a place in the Académie française, "Gérard d'Houville" was placed in top position, above Anna de Noailles and Colette. In 1918 she was the recipient of the Académie française's inaugural Grand Prix de Littérature, awarded for her fiction, and in 1958 she was also given the Académie's Grand Prix de Poésie for her poetic oeuvre – to this day the only woman to have received both awards.
  Several artists and painters of the time took her portrait, including Jacques-Émile Blanche and Jean-Louis Forain. She was also the subject of several of Pierre Louÿs's nude photographs.
caption: Marie de Régnier posing for her portrait in the workshop of Jacques-Émile Blanche, 1893. Photograph by Giuseppe Primoli.
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