- French feminist and anthropologist.
- She received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, one of France's highest honors. She was one of only five women who have received this honor.
- She was a French WWII Resistance fighter. After the war, she documented the history of the French Resistance. She also spoke out against the French colonial presence in Algeria.
- She studied anthropology, and did field research on semi-nomadic tribes in Algeria in the 1930s. She wrote a 700-page ethnography on one tribe, but the manuscript disappeared after the Nazis sent her to Ravensbruck, a camp for women and children, in 1943. She reconstructed the study from memory decades later, and it was published in 2000.
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