Anne de Graville

Anne de Graville or Anne Malet de Graville (1490?-1540?) was a French lady-in-waiting, translator and poet.

Biography 

The daughter of admiral  and Marie de Balsac, she was kidnapped (apparently with her consent) and married secretly, around 1508, to her cousin Pierre de Balsac, lord of Entragues, the son of .

She was the maid of honour of Claude of France, and confidante of Marguerite de Navarre.

Works 
 La belle dame sans mercy; seventy-one rondeaux revised from the poem originally written by Alain Chartier in 1425. 
Read online
 Manuscrit des rondeaux on Gallica
 C'est le beau romant des deux amans Palamon et Arcita et de la belle et saige Emilia, translaté de vieil langaige et prose en nouveau et rime par madamoiselle Anne de Graville la Mallet, dame du Boys Maslesherbes, du commandement de la Royne (1521) Collection (manuscript), formerly belonging to Reine Claude, containing the novel translated by Anne de Graville (on Gallica). Rewriting of the first translation (Le livre de Thezeo) from Giovanni Boccaccio's Teseida. This work was commissioned by Reine Claude.
 Reprint: Critical text prepared and presented by Yves Le Hir (PUF, 1965)

References

External links 
 Maxime de Montmorand Anne de Graville, sa famille, sa vie, son œuvre, sa postérité (Paris, Picard 1917)
 Anne Malet de Graville on Arlima

Category:French translators
Category:16th-century French poets
Category:French women poets
Category:1490s births
Category:1540s deaths
Category:French ladies-in-waiting