Marie-Louise-Félicité Angers (9 January 1845 – 6 June 1924), better known by her pen name Laure Conan, was a French Canadian writer and journalist.

[2] In 1877, Conan went to Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood and met two women to whom she would frequently write letters.

The success of Angéline de Montbrun caused her to want to publish this as a novel and sought out Henri-Raymond Casgrain as her patron.

Printers in Montreal printed pirated copies of "Un amour vrai", retitled "Larmes d'amour", in 1897.

She moved to Saint-Hyacinthe and edited a periodical called La Voix du Précieux Sang.

She wrote 90 articles for the periodical, mostly biographies concerning religious people, and these were published together in 1913 as Physionomies de saints.

Conan was spending more time living with the institute of the Little Daughters of St Joseph in Montreal, and in 1920 she sold her possessions at auction and left her family home in La Malbaie.

In 1921 she published La vaine foi and produced Aux jours de Maisonneuve in its first stage production.

[2] When critiquing her essays in cahier d'honneur, George-Louis Le Moine, the director of Papillon Littéraire, said her work was amongst his favourite, but criticised the writing as stiff and said it lacked punctuation.

[1] She was skilled in reciting other literature, poems, Bible verses, and other Christian religious texts, and often incorporated passages from these sources in her work.

Her later works of L'obscure souffrance and La vaine foi were written in an intimism style and formatted as a collection of thoughts expressed by a woman affected by crises of existentialism, romantic, and religious natures.

[2] Conan was influenced by the literary trend of historical novels and wrote three herself: A l'oeuvre et à l'épreuve, L'Oublié and La Sève immortelle.

Critics state that themes of isolation and world-weariness described in bitter and fatalistic words were inspired by her reaction to the end of this relationship.

[2] Conan's work explored the French Canadian identity after the conquest of Britain and the failure of the Lower Canada Rebellion.

The main character's diary entries are an allegory to an idealized independent Quebec whose culture is thriving.