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GYP was a, creative, opinionated, innovative, radical writer, novelist, artist, political-activist woman of aristocracy in turn-of-the-century Paris.  Her formal name was Sibylle Aimée Marie-Antoinette Gabrielle de Riquetti de Mirabeau, Comtesse de Martel de Janville (16 August 1849 – 28 June 1932).  She was a countess by inheritance, a descendant of the great statesman of the French Revolution, Honorè Gabriel Riquetti Mirabeau.  She was also a countess by marriage when in 1867 she married Count Roger de Martel de Janville.