Marie Vieux-Chauvet

Marie Vieux was born on 16 September 1916 in Port-au-Prince, the daughter of Constant Vieux, a senator and diplomat, and Delia Nones, from a Jewish family of Saint Thomas. A graduate in 1933 of the annex of the École normale d'institutrices, she married the physician Aymon Charlier, then the travel agent Pierre Chauvet, whose name she took. She wrote plays in the 1940s and published her first novel in 1954. Threatened by the regime, she went into exile in New York, where she died on 19 June 1973.

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• NovelLove, Anger, MadnessAmour, Colère et FolieMarie Vieux-Chauvet · 1968Literature