Pauline de Broglie

Laure Marie Pauline de Broglie (February 5th, 1888 - February 29th, 1972) is a French woman of letters .

Girl of Louis Alphonse Victor 5th Duke of Broglie (1846-1906) and Pauline of Forest d' Armaillé (1851-1928). She is the sister of Maurice and Louis de Broglie, Nobel Prize of physics in 1929, eminent scientists, members of the Institut.

Married with the count Jean de Pange, resulting from a noble family of Lorraine, it devoted its life, in company of her husband, with the literature and the history. It created and animated a circle of studies on its ancestor, Madam de Staël.

The count and the countess of Pange in their European engagement had, inter alia, like fellow travellers Robert Schumann, Konrad Adenauer, the Archduke Otto of Habsbourg-Lorraine with which they were dependant of friendship. They also had personal relations with the Général and Mrs de Gaulle.

Like the majority of the members of the House of Broglie, the countess of Pange expressed liberal opinions as well on the political plan as religious.

Its book How I saw 1900 is a source of information on the aristocratic company of the Belle Time, world to which belonged Pauline de Broglie and that it could describe with much humor.

She was member of the jury of the Prix Femina. She accepted in 1970 the tie of Commandeur of the Legion of honor.

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'' Pauline de Broglie, Countess of Pange. Lorraine of adoption, European of heart ''

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