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- Birth nameJeanne Mouchonnier
- Jeanne Cressanges was born on May 6, 1929 in Noyant-d'Allier, Allier, France. She was a writer, known for Maldonne (1969), Une fille nommée Amour (1969) and Sin with a Stranger (1968). She died on July 27, 2024 in Épinal, Vosges department, France.
- Author of 30 works, and a feminist from the very beginning, she had also produced essays on her fellow women, from her first novel-essay La femme et le manuscrit (Grasset 1959) to La vraie vie des femmes commence à quarante ans (Grasset 1979) via Ce que les femmes n'avait jamais dit (Grasset 1982) for which she had been invited onto the set of Apostrophe.
- In 1968, she moved to Épinal, to follow her husband. The Vosges department was the setting for several of his novels, like Les Eaux rouges and Le Luthier de Mirecourt.
- In 2020 she was awarded "Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters".
- Jeanne Cressanges was a French screenwriter, dialoguist, essayist, and novelist.
- Between 1960 and 1970, she was a reader at Éditions Julliard and a columnist at Les Nouvelles littéraires.
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