Madame de la Ville de Mirmont

Sophie Malan, born in France in 1860, married Pierre Maurice Henri de la Ville de Mirmont, a professor of rhetoric and language teacher, with whom she had six children. She wrote Christmas stories under her married name of Madame de la Ville de Mirmont. Her son Jean de la Ville de Mirmont grew up to be a poet who died during World War I at age 27.