Agnès de La Gorce

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, and of Marie Mailhard de la Couture; she is the aunt of the journalist and historian Paul-Marie de La Gorce.

In 1959, after having been distinguished several times by the French Academy, she received the Gustave Le Mallais-Larivière prize for her works.

She was a member of the Prix Femina jury from 1945 until her death in 1976.

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)
 * Le vrai visage de Fénelon, Paris, Hachette, 1958
 * Sainte Chantal, Tours, Mame, 1961, 97 p.