Google dedicates its doodle of Monday June 8 to Marguerite Yourcenar on the occasion of the 117th anniversary of the birth of the woman of letters. On the home page of the search engine, the tribute appears in the form of an illustration of the London artist Marguerite Dumans. By clicking on the image, you can access a biography of the author who died in 1987.
This text indicates that Marguerite Yourcenar was born in 1903 in Belgium and that her real name is Marguerite de Crayencour. The name "Yourcenar" that she chose is actually the quasi-anagram of her real surname. Born into a wealthy family in Brussels, the novelist moved to Paris in her childhood following her father. It was there that she wrote her first work, a collection of poems, at the age of 18.
Google's tribute to Marguerite Yourcenar evokes, among other things, the author's homosexuality and her entry into the French Academy in 1980, of which she was the first female member. We learn there that his father had decided to give him an education given by private tutors and fed by readings and visits to museums.
Installation in the United States
After having had her first literary success with Alexis or the Treaty of the vain combat , Marguerite Yourcenar traveled a lot through Europe in the 1930s. She settled in the United States with her partner, the translator Grace Frick, at start of World War II. She wrote her most famous work there, Memoirs of Hadrian .
The author and Grace Frick are buried side by side in Somesville Cemetery, on Mount Desert Island in Maine, where they lived together. The novelist had obtained American nationality in 1947 and Yourcenar had become her official name on this occasion.
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