Ernesta Stern
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Born | Maria Ernesta de Hierschel December 8, 1854 Trieste, Italy |
Died | 1926 |
Occupation | Author |
Spouse(s) | Louis Stern |
Parent(s) | Léon de Hierschel Clementina Minerbi |
Ernesta Stern, born Maria Ernesta de Hierschel, also known as Maria Star, (December 8, 1854 – 1926) was an Italian-born French author. She wrote many Venetian tales and novels. She held a salon in Paris and she was awarded the knighthood of the Legion of Honour. Her Villa Torre Clementina in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin is an official historical monument.[1]
Early life[]
Ernesta Stern was born on December 8, 1854 in Trieste, Italy. Her father was Léon de Hierschel and her mother, Clementina Minerbi.[2] She was Jewish.[3]
Career[]
Stern wrote Venetian tales as well as novels.[1] For example, her 1916 novel Le Baptême du courage is about World War I.[4]
Stern held a salon in Paris.[5] One of her guests was Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.[5] She was friends with Marcel Proust.[3]
Stern became a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1920.[2]
Personal life, death and legacy[]
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Stern married , a banker and a member of the Stern family.[2] They resided at 68 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris.[2] She was widowed in 1900, and she built the Villa Torre Clementina in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in 1904.[1]
Stern died in 1926. Her house in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin is listed as an official historical monument by the French Ministry of Culture.[1]
Works[]
- Stern, Ernesta (1896). Au fil des pensées. Paris: Chaix. OCLC 459061767.
- Stern, Ernesta (1897). Autour du cœur. Paris: P. Ollendorff. OCLC 759765093.
- Stern, Ernesta (1898). Quinze jours à Londres. Paris: P. Ollendorff. OCLC 459061839.
- Stern, Ernesta (1900). Impressions d'Espagne. Paris: P. Ollendorff. OCLC 459061830.
- Star, Maria (1901). Âmes de chefs-d'œuvre. OCLC 79204042.
- Stern, Ernesta (1903). Chaînes de fleurs. Paris: Gazette des beaux arts. OCLC 83397671.
- Stern, Ernesta (1903). Terre des symboles. Paris: Gazette des beaux-arts. OCLC 29114819.
- Stern, Ernesta (1907). Visions de beauté. Paris: Imprimerie de Frazier-Soye. OCLC 459061869.
- Stern, Ernesta (1907). Le Coeur effeuillé, comédies. Paris: F. Juven. OCLC 459061804.
- Star, Maria (1909). Les légendes de Venise. Paris: Émile-Paul. OCLC 6414503.
- Star, Maria (1909). Les deux gloires. Paris: La phalange. OCLC 978126885.
- Stern, Ernesta (1911). Faut-il pardonner?. Paris: A. Lemerre. OCLC 79634387.
- Stern, Ernesta (1912). Qui l'emporte ?. Paris: A. Lemerre. OCLC 459061833.
- Stern, Ernesta (1914). Suprême amour. Paris: A. Lemerre. OCLC 459061853.
- Stern, Ernesta (1916). Le Baptême du courage (manuscrit de la guerre). Paris: Éditions de la "Nouvelle revue. OCLC 459061790.
- Stern, Ernesta (1921). Une vie manquée. Paris: Éditions Gallus. OCLC 459061865.
- Stern, Ernesta (1921). Au soir de la vie : pensées. Paris: Gallus. OCLC 42797096.
- Star, Maria (1923). L'Épervier d'or. Paris: La Revue mondiale. OCLC 459061809.
- Stern, Ernesta (1924). Sémiramis. Paris: Éditions de la Revue mondiale. OCLC 775730991.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Base Mérimée: Propriété dite Villa Torre-Clementina, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "STERN Maria Ernesta". French Ministry of Culture. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Gould, Evlyn (2012). Dreyfus and the Literature of the Third Republic: Secularism and Tolerance in Zola, Barres, Lazare and Proust. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 175. ISBN 9780786472147. OCLC 796760301.
- ^ Grayzel, Susan R. (2014). Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: UNC Press Books. p. 34. ISBN 9780807824825. OCLC 924808229.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Somigli, Luca (2016). Legitimizing the Artist: Manifesto Writing and European Modernism, 1885-1915. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 98. ISBN 9781442621060. OCLC 944178954.
- 1854 births
- 1926 deaths
- Writers from Trieste
- Writers from Paris
- People from Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
- French women novelists
- 20th-century French novelists
- Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
- 19th-century Italian Jews
- Jewish women writers
- 20th-century French women writers
- Stern family (banking)
- French novelist, 19th-century birth stubs