GYP, the pen name of SIBYLLE GABRIELLE MARIE ANTOINETTE RIQUETI DE MIRABEAU, Comtesse de Martel de Janville (1850 1932), French writer, born at the château of Koetsal in the Mor bihan. Her father served in the Papal Zouavas, and died during the campaign of 1860. Her mother, the comtesse de Mirabeau, contributed to the Figaro and the Vie parisienne under various pseudonyms, papers in the manner successfully developed by her daughter. Under the pseudonym of "Gyp" Madame de Martel married in 1869, sent to the Vie parisienne, and later to the Revue des deux mondes, a large number of social sketches and dialogues, afterwards reprinted in volumes. Her later work includes stories of a more formal sort differing but little from the shorter studies. The following list includes some of the best known of Madame de Martel's publications, nearly seventy in number: Petit Bob (1882); Autour du mariage (1883) ; Ce que femme vent (1883) ; Le Monde a Cote (1884) ; Sans voiles (1885) ; Autour du divorce (1886) ; Dans le train (1886) ; Mademoiselle Loulow (1888) ; Bob au salon (1888-89) ; L'Education d'un prince (1890) ; Pas sionette (1891) ; OW la grande vie (1891) ; Une Election a Tigre sur-mer (1890), an account of "Gyp's" experiences in support of a Boulangist candidate; Mariage Civil (1892) ; Les bons docteurs (1892); Du haut en bas (1893) ; Mariage de chiffon (1894); Leurs ames (1895) ; Le Coeur d' Ariane (1895) ; Le Bonheur de Ginette (1896) ; Totote (1897) ; Lune de miel (1898) ; Israel (1898) ; L'Entrevue (1899) ; Le Pays des champs (1900) ; Trop de chic (1900) ; Le Friquet 0900; La Fee (1902); Un Mariage chic (1903) ; Un Menage dernier cri (1903) ; Maman (1904) ; Le Coeur de Pierrette (1905) ; L'amoureux de Line (1910). A num ber of these were adapted by the author into successful plays. From the first "Gyp," writing of a society to which she belonged, showed an intense faculty of observation, much skill in innuendo, a mordant wit combined with some breadth of humour, and a singular power of animating ordinary dialogues without destroying the appearance of reality. Her Parisian types of the spoiled child, of the precocious school-girl, of the young bride, and of various masculine figures in the gay world, have become noted, and many survive as faithful pictures of luxurious manners in the 19th century. Some of her later productions were inspired by a violent anti-Semitic and Nationalist bias. In 1901 Madame de Martel furnished a sensational incident in the Nationalist campaign during the municipal elections in Paris. Because of her political attitude she was kidnapped and made the victim of a considerable amount of horseplay. She died June, 1932.