Berthe de Puybusque

• Name — Berthe de Puybusque • Born — 14 December 1848 • Birthplace — Muret, France • Died — 12 November 1926 • Place of death — Saint-Sulpice-sur-Lèze, France • Illustration — 1918 French magazine with Berther's L'arme du fou novel published Berthe de Puybusque (pen name, Rustica; 14 December 1848 – 12 November 1926) was a French female poet and novelist born in Muret (Haute-Garonne).

Berthe Marie Barthélemine de Puybusque, born at Château de Lacombe in Muret (Haute-Garonne) on 14 December 1848, published her first works under the pseudonym Rustica. Crowned as a master of Jeux Floraux in Toulouse, she wrote novels intended for young girls as well as poems. She also collaborated with L'Ouvrier, an illustrated bi-weekly journal. She died in Saint-Sulpice-sur-Lèze (Haute-Garonne) on 12 November 1926.

• Labeur sans gloire; Hirt & Cie, 1920 • Pascalette; Hirt & Cie, 1923 • Gina la blonde; Hirt & Cie, 1929 • L'équivoque; Gautier-Languereau, 1926 • Leçon des choses, a collection of poems. Ollendorf, 1894 (under her pseudonym Rustica) • Les deux robes, a novel. Gautier, 1902. • La bête hombrée, a novel. Perpignan, Latrobe, 1902. • L'Angélus sur les champs, poetry, with a preface by Mr. Charles de Pomairols (L' me latine). Toulouse, 1907. • Marie de Renaud, a novel. Gautier, 1910. • L'arme du fou, a novel. Paris, 1912. • Le Rosaire, a collection of verses, with a foreword by Mr. Ch. de Pomairols. Besançon, Imprimerie de l'Est, 1912. • Les Lointains s'éclairent, a novel. Gautier, 1912. • Moisson, an idyll that received an accolade at the Jeux floraux • Eulogy of Clémence Isaure delivered by Berthe de Puybusque, Master of the Floral games.