Sylvie Yvert
Born	1964 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.^[2]

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.^[4]

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]

• This is not literature... , Paris, éditions du Rocher, 2008, 221 p. (ISBN  978-2-268-06477-2)
• Muslin the Serious, Paris, Héloïse d'Ormesson editions, 2016, 332 p. (ISBN  978-2-35087-346-6)
• A Crazy Year: novel, Paris, Héloïse d'Ormesson editions, 2019, 330 p. (ISBN  978-2-35087-490-6)
• At least the memory: novel, Paris, Héloïse d'Ormesson editions, 2021, 384 p. (ISBN  978-2-35087-747-1)

• 2016: Literary Prize of the Princes of the magazine Point de vue^[3]
• 2016: History Prize of the New Union Circle
• 2019: Napoleon I Literary Prize from the Imperial Cities network