Lucie Faure

Lucie Faure (1908 - 1977) is a woman of letters, novelist, director of review.

Lucie Meyer is born with Paris on July 6th 1908. Girl of a trader out of fabrics Jew of Alsatian origin, it is the niece, on the maternal side, Julien Cain, which was general administrator of the National library of 1930 to 1964.

Relieuse of art before the war, it acquires in this field an international reputation (gold Book of the princesses of England, 1938) and takes part in many living rooms of artists decorators abroad.

In 1931, it marries Edgar Faure, then young lawyer, future president of the Council of the Fourth republic.

Taken refuge with her husband and their daughter in Tunisia with the autumn 1942 then with Algiers after the American unloading of November 8th, it is attached to the Police station of the foreign affairs of the French Comité of national release and organizes the Institute of Slavic studies at the University of Algiers.

It is as in Algiers as it creates in 1943 with the writer Robert Aron the review the Nave , which will be the first with being published in Paris the shortly after the Libération and of which it ensured the direction until its death. Many numbers of " Nef" made date, such as those devoted to political and social problems contemporary (the war of Algeria, the police force, the Americans, the psychoanalysis, the prostitution, the women, justice, publicity, the opinion polls, freedoms…). Near to the mediums of the Parisian intellectual Left per hour of the Decolonization of North Africa, it assists and advises her husband in his various political offices, defending in general of the positions more advanced than his, while avoiding them placing itself on the front of the political scene. It however agrees to succeed to him in 1970 as mayor of Port-Lesney, small commune of the Jura.

Author of a " Newspaper of a voyage in Chine" noticed (1958), it starts to leave the years 1960 a career of novelist. Its eight novels (to which seven news joined together in a posthumous work was added) reflect less its great familiarity with the political circles that " its curiosity intimist for the things of the cœur" (B. Poirot-Delpech). The psychological complexity of the tackled subjects, such as the delirious jealousy, the suicide, the parricide or badly assumed homosexuality, is " there; compensated by an extreme concern of clearness and a species of frankness optimiste". Member of the jury of the Price Médicis starting from 1971, it exerted, by his personality, a great radiation in the Parisian literary world.

Lucie Faure dies on September 25th 1977 in her property of Boissise-the-Bertrand (77). EIle is buried with the Cimetière of Passy in Paris.

She was commander of the Legion of honor.

Works

Newspaper of a voyage in China , Julliard (1958)
undecided Passions , novel, Julliard (1961)
Girls of the Martyrdom , novel, Julliard (1963)
Variations on imposture , news, Gallimard (1965)
the Other person , novel, Julliard (1968)
insane Misfortune , novel, Julliard (1970)
the Good children , Tallandier (1972)
Tuesday at dawn , Tallandier (1974)
a crime so right , Grasset (1976)
ambiguous Destinies , Grasset (1978)

Sources

Le Figaro , September 26th, 1977
Le Monde , September 27th, 1977 (articles of B. Poirot-Delpech and P. Viansson-Ponté)

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