Mathilde Alanic (pen name, Miranda; 10 November 1864 – 20 October 1948) was a French writer of sentimental novels and short stories.

[2] Her father, Julien Louis Alanic, was an entrepreneur and a Breton house painter from the faubourg Bressigny, in Angers.

[1] Alanic attended a Catholic boarding school[1] before becoming a pupil of Henri Bergson at the Ecole Supérieure des Lettres in Angers.

[2] In 1903, she received the Montyon prize from the Académie Française for her work Ma Cousine Nicole[1] as well as in 1929 for Le mariage de Hoche.

[6] On 3 February 1929, she was promoted Chevalier, Legion of Honour[4] on the recommendation of the Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts, for her 35-year literary career.