16 Facts About Genevieve Tabouis

Genevieve Tabouis was a French historian and journalist.

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Genevieve Tabouis was born in Paris in 1892, the daughter of Fernand Le Quesne was born on 1856, and a noted French painter.

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Genevieve Tabouis's was first educated at the Convent of the Assumption, a fashionable Parisian convent.

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Genevieve Tabouis's left the convent school and went to public high school, where she specialized in archeology and Egyptology.

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Genevieve Tabouis's studied at the Faculte des Lettres in Paris and the School of Archeology at the Louvre.

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Genevieve Tabouis's wrote three popular books on the lives of Tutankhamen, Nebuchadnezzar, and Solomon .

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Genevieve Tabouis' family included French diplomats Jules Cambon and his brother Paul Cambon.

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Genevieve Tabouis moved in the highest social circles in France and England.

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Genevieve Tabouis's was invited to the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1936, referring in her autobiography to her coronation robe made by Edward Molyneux and to having her hair coiffured by one of the most popular hairdressers in London.

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In 1932, following the death of Aristide Briand, Genevieve Tabouis began writing a daily column for the Paris newspaper L'œuvre in addition to reporting for La Petite Gironde and Le Petit Marseillais.

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When Genevieve Tabouis vigorously campaigned for French support for Republican Spain against Franco, La Petite Gironde dropped her as a correspondent in 1935.

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Genevieve Tabouis became the foreign editor of L'œuvre in 1936, where her pro-Republican stance lead to attacks by the Parisian weeklies Candide and Gringoire as well as Action Francaise.

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Genevieve Tabouis's strongly supported intervention to prevent the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, but the French chose not to intervene.

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Genevieve Tabouis fled France just before its surrender to Germany in 1940, having been warned that an arrest warrant was to be issued for her.

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Genevieve Tabouis's was forced to leave her husband, son, and daughter behind.

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In 1938, Life magazine reported that Genevieve Tabouis was a non-smoker, teetotaller and vegetarian, and in a surgical operation had to have a kidney removed.

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