[Marguerite Suzanne Marcelle]. French novelist, born at Tulle, Corrèze, in 1872. She was educated at Bordeaux and Paris, and in 1889 married the painter Julien Tinayre. Her earliest novel was Avant l’Amour (1897); but the one by which she is best known is La Maison du Péché (1902). Her later works include La Rebelle (1905); La Consolatrice (1907); Madeleine au Miroir (1912); L’Ombre de l’Amour (1910); La Douceur de Vivre (1911); and Le Départ; Aôut, 1914 (1915). She also published in 1910 a book of travels, Notes d’une Voyageuse en Turquie.
