| Sylvie Yvert | |
| Birth Date: | 1964 |
| Birth Place: | Paris, France |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
Sylvie Yvert (born 1964) is a French novelist and former project manager at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris.
Born in Paris, Sylvie Yvert worked as a civil servant. She made her writing debut by publishing a collection of literary essays under the title Ceci n'est pas de la littérature... (This is not literature...) with Éditions du Rocher in 2008.[1]
In 2016, Yvert's first historical novel was titled Mousseline la Sérieuse (Muslin the Serious), published in 2016 by Éditions Héloïse d'Ormesson. It told the fictionalized story of the life of Marie-Thérèse of France, the daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette of Austria.[2] It was nominated for the L'Express-BFMTV Readers' Prize in 2016 and received the prix littéraire des Princes[3] and the prix d’Histoire du Cercle de l’Union interalliée.
Her second novel, titled Une année folle (A Crazy Year) and published in 2019[4] was nominated for the Prix du Roman Historique Napoléon I, chaired by the Stéphane Bern and Jean Tulard.[5] The two journalists created the prize that year to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of the emperor Napoleon I.[6] In it, she follows the itinerary of two Bonapartists during the Hundred Days period of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815.
In 2018, Yvert was a featured speaker in the show Secrets d'Histoire hosted by Stéphane Bern and dedicated to Marie-Thérèse of France, entitled Madame Royale, the Orphan of the Revolution, broadcast on 12 July 2018 on the television channel, France 2.[7]