She met the most important political leaders of the time: Gandhi, Churchill, Roosevelt, Kennedy and Nehru.
From then on, her life would become intimately interwoven with twentieth-century history. Her most famous work, Madame Curie, a biography of her mother, was translated into more than thirty languages and became a worldwide bestseller.Īfter the Nazi occupation of France, she became an active supporter of General Charles de Gaulle and the Free French, serving first as a war correspondent, then as a liaison officer and working tirelessly for U.S. But she was famous in her own right, as an author and concert pianist. Ève Curie was the only member of her family who was neither a Nobel-Prize winner nor a scientist. This is the first biography of Ève Curie, the daughter of the great scientists Pierre and Marie Curie, and the younger sister of Irène Curie, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She is the daughter of the mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre. A former French diplomat, she held several positions with the United Nations, notably with UNICEF and UNESCO. Sartre et Beauvoir dans le siècle and Les Soeurs Beauvoir. She is the author of Les Amants de la liberté. She has been active in the women’s movement since the 1970s. Claudine Monteil is a historian, biographer and women’s rights specialist.
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