1. Jane Dieulafoy was a French archaeologist, explorer, novelist, feminist and journalist.
14 Facts About Jane Dieulafoy
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Jane Dieulafoy was born Jeanne Henriette Magre to a wealthy family of bourgeoisie merchants in Toulouse, France.
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Jane Dieulafoy studied at the Couvent de l'Assomption d'Auteuil in a suburb of Paris from 1862 to 1870.
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Jane Dieulafoy married Marcel Dieulafoy in May 1870, at the age of 19.
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Jane Dieulafoy documented the pair's explorations in photographs, illustrations, and writing.
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Jane Dieulafoy took daily notes during her travels, which were later published in two volumes.
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Jane Dieulafoy says in her memoir about the Apadana Palace in Susa:.
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Jane Dieulafoy wrote two novels: Her first was Parysatis, in 1890, set in ancient Susa.
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Jane Dieulafoy contracted amoebic dysentery and was forced to return to France where she died in Pompertuzat in 1916.
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Jane Dieulafoy had dressed as a man when she fought alongside Marcel Dieulafoy during the Franco-Prussian War, and she continued to dress in men's clothing when she returned to France.
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Jane Dieulafoy included many characters who cross-dress in her fiction, including her novels Volontaire and Frere Pelage.
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Jane Dieulafoy considered herself an equal to her husband, but was fiercely loyal to him.
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Jane Dieulafoy was opposed to the idea of divorce, believing it degraded women.
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Jane Dieulafoy was a member of the jury of the prix Femina literary prize from its creation in 1904 until her death.