Lucie Faure

Known for: Writing

Born: July 6, 1908

Died: September 25, 1977

Lucie Faure, née Meyer (6 July 1908 – 25 September 1977) was a French woman of letters, novelist and literary review director. The daughter of a merchant of fabrics of Alsatian origin, she was the niece, on the maternal side, of Julien Cain, who was administrator general of the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1930 to 1964. In 1931, she married Edgar Faure, then a young lawyer. A refugee with her husband and daughter in Tunisia in the autumn of 1942 and then in Algiers, after the America…

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