Henry Gr茅ville was the pen name for Mrs. Alice Durand (Alice Marie C茅leste Fleury Durand), born Fleury, was a French writer.
The daughter of a professor, she accompanied her father to St. Petersburg, studied languages and science and married 脡mile Durand, a French law professor at Petersburg, with whom she returned to France in 1872.
Gr茅ville had already published novels in St. Petersburg journals: A travers des champs and Sonia, and continued her production in France, first with the novels Dosia (1876) and L'Expiation de Sav茅li (1876), depicting Russian society. Dosia was awarded the Montbon prize and saw many editions. Her books were translated in many European languages.