| Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 December 1797 Mâcon |
| Died | 1 December 1872 (aged 74) Paris |
| Pen name | Clémence Robert |
| Language | French |
| Nationality | French |
| Citizenship | French |
| Genres | historical fiction, military fiction |
| Subjects | biography, history |
Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (6 December 1797 – 1 December 1872) was a French writer of historical fiction, poetry, non-fiction, stage plays, and short stories. She published much of her work as Clémence Robert.
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Mlle Clémence Robert was born in Mâcon near the end of 1797. Although she debuted in 1820, most of her published work succeeded the French Revolution of 1830, and the death of her father. When her father died in 1830, she moved to Paris and went to work in a bookshop. In 1845 she briefly joined the Bernardin convent at Abbaye-aux-Bois. She died in Paris five days before her 75th birthday.
With Camille Leynadier, she compiled and edited the memoirs of Giuseppe Garibaldi, which they presented as a biography, dramatised in parts. Frances J. Reynolds included her short story "Baron de Trenck", translated into English, in the third and final volume of the anthology International Short Stories (1910). The story relates an adventure of the Prussian officer Friedrich von der Trenck, and was inspired by his autobiography.