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Edmonde Charles-Roux (1920–2016)

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Edmonde Charles-Roux was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on April 17, 1920. Soon after the fall of France in World War II, she received a nursing diploma and volunteered to serve in an ambulance corps of the French Foreign Legion. At Verdun, she was wounded during an aerial bombardment of the näytä lisää field hospital where she was working but stayed at her post. After serving with the Resistance in Provence, she was wounded again when the First French Army advanced into Austria. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. In 1946, she worked as a writer for Elle. Two years later, she began writing for the French edition of Vogue. She was the editor in chief there from 1954 to 1966. Her first novel, To Forget Palermo, was published in 1966 and won the Prix Goncourt, France's biggest literary prize. Her other works include Chanel: Her Life, Her World - and the Woman Behind the Legend She Herself Created; Chanel and Her World; She, Adrienne; and a two-volume biography of the Swiss explorer and writer Isabelle Eberhardt. She died on January 20, 2016 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän

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Coco before Chanel [2009 film] (2000) — Original book — 86 kappaletta
Marseille année 40 (1980) — Préface, eräät painokset9 kappaletta

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Kanoninen nimi
Charles-Roux, Edmonde
Virallinen nimi
Charlez-Roux, Edmonde
Syntymäaika
1920-04-17
Kuolinaika
2016-01-20
Hautapaikka
Cimetière Saint-Pierre, Marseille, France
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
France
Syntymäpaikka
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Kuolinpaikka
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Asuinpaikat
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Rome, Italy
Koulutus
Lycée Chateaubriand, Rome
Ammatit
magazine editor
novelist
biographer
journalist
nurse
French Resistance (näytä kaikki 7)
librettist
Organisaatiot
Académie Goncourt (President ∙ 2002 -2014)
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Legion d'Honneur (1945)
Croix de Guerre
Ordre du Corps d'armée
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Edmonde Charles-Roux, née Marie-Charlotte Élisabeth Edmonde Charles-Roux, was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, an exclusive suburb of Paris, and grew up in Marseille and Rome. Her parents were François Charles-Roux, an historian and French ambassador to Prague and the Vatican, and his wife Sabine Gounelle. She was given the name Edmonde in homage to Edmond Rostand, a friend of her grandmother. At the outbreak of World War II, at age 20, she served as an ambulance driver and nurse in a unit of the Foreign Legion and was wounded. Then she joined the French Resistance as a nurse in a clandestine clinic. In August 1944, as the Allies invaded southern France and fought up to the Rhine, she was summoned back to the army by General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and served on his staff. She was then attached to the French 5th Armored Division as a nurse and social worker, and was wounded again in Austria.
She was decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d'honneur in 1945 and made an honorary corporal by the Foreign Legion. After the war,
she earned her baccalauréat and began her journalism career at the newly-created magazine Elle. In 1948, she went to work for French Vogue, becoming editor-in-chief in 1954. She left Vogue in May 1966, and three months later, published the novel Oublier Palerme (Forget Palermo), which won the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious literary award in France. It was later adapted into a film with the same name. Also in 1966, she met Gaston Defferre, the mayor of Marseille, later Minister of the Interior, and married him in 1973. She wrote three more novels and biographies of Coco Chanel and Isabelle Eberhardt. She also wrote the libretti for several ballets by Roland Petit, including Le Guépard and Nana.
A member of the Académie Goncourt from 1983, she served as its president in 2002-2014.

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