GUÉRIN, EUGÉNIE de. - Writer, b. in the castle of Cayla near Albi, in France, in 1805, d. there in 1848. With her counsel, she guided her brother the poet Maurice, younger than she (1810-39), whose soul she strove to save and whose premature death caused her extreme grief, which she overcame only through the fervor of her Catholic faith.

She left a Journal and Lettres which her intimates, Trébutien and Barbey d'Aurevilly, published in 1855; they were reprinted in 1862 and then very often under the title: E. de G., Journal et lettres. One would hardly find a more beautiful and edifying book of memoirs. It equals the Centaure, the Bacchante, and her brother's Journal de Maurice in richness of style; but it is superior in loftiness of thought, founded on the doctrine of St. Paul, St. Augustine, Bossuet and Fénelon.

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BIBL.: V. Giraud, La vie chrétienne d'E. de G., Paris 1928; E. Barthès, E. de G. d'après des documents inédits, ibid. 1929; id., Lettres d'E. de G. à son frère Maurice, ibid. 1929.

Germano Liévin

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