Edmonde Charles-Roux
Writing
April 17, 1920
Died January 20, 2016 (95 years old)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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Acting Credits
Biography
Edmonde Charles-Roux (17 April 1920 – 20 January 2016) was a French writer. Charles-Roux was born in 1920 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, the daughter of Francois Charles-Roux, the former French ambassador to Czechoslovakia, a member of the Institut de France and the last chairman of the Suez Canal Company. Her paternal grandfather, Jules Charles-Roux, was a businessman and politician. Charles-Roux was a volunteer nurse in World War II, at first in a French Foreign Legion unit, the 11th infantry regimen...
