Marie Léonie de Bazelaire de Ruppierre (May 19, 1857– July 23, 1926) was a French painter and writer. In addition to writing several travel books, she was the founder and director of La Chevauchée, a bimonthly literary review for women that published between 1900 and 1903.[2][3]

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Marie Léonie de Bazelaire de Ruppierre
Léonie de Bazelaire, in St-Dié, 1894
Born	(1857-05-19)May 19, 1857 Sainte-Marguerite, Vosges[1]
Died	(1926-07-23)July 23, 1926 Cannet (Alpes-Maritimes)

Family

Léonie de Bazelaire was the daughter of Marie-Charles Sigisbert de Bazelaire de Saulcy (1812-1867) and Marie Anne Victoire Louise Florentin (1814-1903).[4][5][6]

She had seven brothers and sisters,[7] She grew up in Saulcy-sur-Meurthe and then studied at Saint-Dié, before her father was named a justice of the peace in Ligny-en-Barrois.

Her uncle, Édouard de Bazelaire (1819-1853) was a writer,[8] a member of the Académie de Stanislas,[9] a chevalier of the order of Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand,[10] and author of Promenades dans les Vosges (1838).[11]

Travel writing

In April 1888, she went by boat to Palestine with a group of pilgrims.[12] After a stop in Italy where she visited Rome, and one in Crète, the pilgrim's boat dropped anchor in Haifa. Accompanied by her brother Maurice (1840-1909) and her sister Isabelle (1847-1889), they departed on horseback, for a month to tour the country. During this time she wrote Chevauchée en Palestine (1889).[13] After the trip, she published Mois du Sacré-Cœur de Terre Sainte (1890).[14]

Two years later, in 1890, she travelled by rail in Haute-Bavière, to help with the Oberammergau Passion Play, which has taken place since 1634 and which, every two years, involves a large part of the population. She described the event in great detail in her work Le drame d’Oberammergau (1891).[15]

SHe travelled as well to Egypte, which resulted in the publication of Jérusalem, cinq ans après. Une fuite en Égypte (1893).[16] In Khartoum, in 1907, she met the writer Pierre Loti at the Luxor Temple.[17] In 1912, she published Croquis d'Égypte et de Nubie, which was reviewed in Les Annales politiques et littéraires[18]

In addition to her travel writing, she published a biographical essay on Jeanne d’Arc titled Figure Exquise (1895),[19][20] and three theatre pieces: L’idée de Colette (1897), Os de Poulet (1897) et Trèfle à quatre feuilles.

Painting career

She studied painting and drawing with Édouard de Mirbeck in Saint-Dié.[21] She was later the student of painters Pierre-Eugène Grandsire, Carolus-Duran et Jean-Jacques Henner.[22]

She painted portraits and showed regularly in the areas of Épinal, Remiremont, Saint-Dié and Cannes.[23] In May 1882, she presented her work Sous-bois dans les Vosges at the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, Paris.[24]

Collections

• Paysages de montagne dans les Vosges, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg[25]

Death

She died in Cannet, having served during the First World War as a nurse, for which she received the croix de guerre.[26] She was a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur.[27] She was buried in Saint-Dié, July 29, 1986.

Bibliography

Travel writing

• Chevauchée en Palestine, Alfred Mame, 1889 (7 reprints).
• Mois du Sacré Cœur de Terre Sainte, Wagner, 1890.
• Le drame d’Oberammergau, P. Lethielleux, 1893.
• Jérusalem cinq ans après ! Une fuite en Égypte, Éd. de l’Assomption, 1893.
• Croquis d'Égypte et de Nubie, 1912.

Biographies

• Figure exquise, Victor Retaux, 1895
• Préface à : Édouard de Bazelaire, Saint Pierre Fourier, surnommé le Bon Père de Mattaincourt, Nancy, Crépin Leblond, 1897.

Theatre

• Os de Poulet, comédie en deux actes, Librairie théâtrale, 1897.
• L’idée de Colette, comédie en un acte, Librairie théâtrale, 1897.
• Trèfle à quatre feuilles.

References

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