1. Marcelle Auclair was a French novelist, biographer, journalist and poet.
11 Facts About Marcelle Auclair
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Marcelle Auclair published an autobiographical work, two books on popular psychology, a religious book for children, a book on artistic images of Jesus.
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Marcelle Auclair was co-founder with Jean Prouvost of the fashion magazine Marie Claire.
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Marcelle Auclair was born 11 November 1899 in Montlucon, central France, and died in Paris on 6 June 1984.
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Marcelle Auclair was the daughter of the architect Victor Auclair and his wife Eugenie Rateau.
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Marcelle Auclair spent part of her childhood and youth in Chile, where her father settled in 1906 to participate in the country's reconstruction after a devastating earthquake.
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Marcelle Auclair did her schooling in Santiago, where she learned Spanish and English while reading French authors.
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Marcelle Auclair published biographies of Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, whom she knew personally, and of the early 20th century pro-peace French socialist Jean Jaures.
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Marcelle Auclair wrote many articles for Marie Claire, extending over a period of several years.
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In 1953, Marcelle Auclair published a French-language children's book about the life of Jesus.
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At age 78, five years before her death, Marcelle Auclair published an autobiographical work with her daughter, actress Francoise Prevost.