Jean de La Brète

Jean de La Brète (pen name of Alice Cherbonnel; 1858–1945) was a pseudonymous[1] French writer of novels for young women.

Le Roman d'une croyante, L'Impossible, and Un Mirage dealt with the religious problems that agitated France in La Brète's era.

Elizabeth M. White adapted the book to young students, annotating freely with footnotes, and adding a series of exercises based on the text, for translation from English back into French.

[4] La Brète's style was characterized as clear and vivid; her stories are vigorous and highly colored; her conclusions are generally shown by the plot itself rather than by a series of speeches.

[2] In France, three streets bear the name of Jean de La Brète: in Saumur, in Cizay-la-Madeleine, and in Saint-Sylvain-d'Anjou.