Louis de Robert

Louis de Robert (5 March 1871, Paris – 27 September 1937) was a French writer, winner of the prix Femina in 1911.

He became friends with Émile Zola during the Dreyfus Affair and took a stand for the revision of the trial.

A regular collaborator in ''The Journal'', with Jules Renard, Alphonse Allais, Octave Mirbeau, he was the first reader of the proofs of ''Du côté de chez Swann'', and dissuaded his friend Marcel Proust to shorten his novel.

''Le Roman du malade'', serialized in ''Le Figaro'' then published by the , Prix Femina 1911, the novel was admired by Maurice Barres, Anna de Noailles, Robert de Montesquiou and Colette. [http://www.academie-francaise.fr/node/14429 He won the Prix] of the Académie française

Fallen in love with the thirty years younger Jeanne Humbert, he married her at the town hall of Sannois on 8 November 1928. She survived him more than half a century and published her autobiography ''Le cœur a ses raisons'' in 1986, on vanity press. Provided by Wikipedia