Henriette Renan

Henriette Renan (French: [ʁənɑ̃]; 22 July 1811 – 24 September 1861) was a French writer.

Henriette Renan
Frontispiece of My Sister Henrietta (1895)
Born
Noémie Cornélie Henriette Renan

(1811-07-22)July 22, 1811
Tréguier, Brittany, France
DiedSeptember 24, 1861(1861-09-24) (aged 50)
Amsheet, Lebanon
NationalityFrench
Other namesHenrietta Renan
OccupationWriter

Life

Henriette Renan was born into a fishing family in Tréguier in Brittany where she lived in the large house bought by her grandfather. Their father, captain of a small cutter and a convinced Republican, had married the daughter of a Royalist tradesman from the neighbouring town of Lannion; their mother was half-Breton, her paternal ancestors having come from Bordeaux. Renan was 17 years old when her father died and she became the head of the household, in particular, taking responsibility for her 5-year-old brother Ernest Renan[1] (later to become a distinguished philosopher).

After failing to establish a girls' school in Tréguier, Renan moved to Paris to teach, where she met Sophie Ulliac[2] and became tutor to a Polish family with whom she toured Europe. She later moved to Vienna as tutor for Count Zamoyski.[3]

Renan wrote for Le Journal des jeunes personnes (edited by Sophie Ulliac between 1846 and 1857) and other periodicals under pseudonyms including Emma du Guindy.[4] Now independently wealthy, she was able to support her mother, pay for her brother's education, and clear her father's debts. Henriette Renan had a great influence on her brother, acting as mother, sister, confidante and adviser. Ernest Renan relied on his sister's research in art history and her own published writing.[5]

Death

In 1860, Henriette joined Ernest and his wife Cornélie in Lebanon while Ernest conducted archaeological investigations in both Lebanon and Syria. They stayed in the home of Zakhia Chalhoub el-Kallab and his son Abdallah Zakhia el Kallab, a notable Maronite family in the Amsheet region of Byblos, whose ancestors had been ennobled by the Ottoman Sultan and who had founded the first hospital in Lebanon, Saint-Michel d'Amchit.[6] Already in poor health,[5] Renan died of malaria in Amsheet on 24 September 1861.[7] She is buried in the vault of Mikhaël Bek Tobia al-Kallab in Amsheet near the church of Notre-Dame.[8][9]

Bibliography
Nouvelles lettres intimes 1846-1850

Works by Henriette Renan
  • Souvenirs et Impressions, Pologne, Rome, Allemagne, voyage en Syrie, edited by Henri Moncel with an introduction by Mary Duclaux (1930)
  • Correspondance intime, 1842-1845
  • Nouvelles lettres intimes, 1846-1850 (1923)

Works about Henriette Renan
  • Renan, Ernest (1862). Henriette Renan, pour ceux qui l'ont connus (in French). p. 77.
  • Renan, Ernest (1895). Ma soeur Henriette (in French).
  • Le Goffic, Charles (1902). "Une déracinée : Henriette Renan". L'âme bretonne. 1 (in French).
  • Barrès, Maurice (1923). Une enquête aux pays du Levant. Volume 1: Alexandrie, Beyrouth, le Liban, le tombeau d'Henriette Renan, une soirée avec les bacchantes (in French). 1. Plon-Nourrit.
  • Giraud, Victor (1925). "Henriette Renan". Revue des Deux-mondes (in French).
  • Giraud, Victor (1926). Sœurs de grands hommes : Jacqueline Pascal, Lucile de Chateaubriand, Henriette Renan (in French). G. Crès. p. 216.
  • Cigoj-Leben, Breda (1971). Ernest Renan et sa soeur Henriette : contribution à une meilleure intelligence de la personnalité morale de Renan (in French). p. 102.
  • Stankovitch, Eva. Henriette Renan, d'enseignante à éducatrice, journaliste et écrivain. Thèse de doctorat (1996)[10]

References
  1. Dubreuil, Léon (1963). "Henriette Renan fut-elle incrédule ?". Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'Ouest. 70 (2): 176–188. doi:10.3406/abpo.1963.2185. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  2. Dubreuil, Léon (1959). "Une amie d'Henriette Renan, Sophie Ulliac-Trémadeure". Annales de Bretagne. 66 (2): 197–229. doi:10.3406/abpo.1959.2078. ISSN 0003-391X. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
  3. "Henriette Renan, soeur du célèbre écrivain, sortie de l'oubli". Le Telegramme (in French). 1996-08-12. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
  4. Dubreuil, Léon (1963). "Henriette Renan fut-elle incrédule ?". Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'Ouest. 70 (2): 176–188. doi:10.3406/abpo.1963.2185. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
  5. "HENRIETTE RENAN". Revue Des Deux Mondes (in French). Retrieved 2019-08-25.
  6. "Au Pays du Levant - Le tombeau d'Henriette Renan". www.lechatdugrenier.com (in French). Retrieved 2019-08-25.
  7. Auzias, Dominique; Labourdette, Jean-Paul (2018-03-16). LIBAN 2018 Carnet Petit Futé (in French). Petit Futé. ISBN 979-10-331-8320-4. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  8. "Le Figaro. Supplément littéraire du dimanche". Gallica (in French). 1923-12-08. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  9. Laurens, Henry (2013-10-10). Ernest Renan. La science, la religion, la République (in French). Éditions Odile Jacob. ISBN 978-2-7381-7563-2. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
  10. "Henriette Renan, soeur du célèbre écrivain, sortie de l'oubli". Le Telegramme (in French). 1996-08-12. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
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