The life of Édith Thomas (1909-1970)
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Odile Welfelé, an archivist paleographer (class 1982), working in the international archival cooperation at the Archives de France, gives a lecture entitled "Édith Thomas (1909-1970). De la "très très chic fille" au "Grand seigneur en exil" ", as part of the bicentennial celebrations of the École nationale des chartes - PSL.
Édith Thomas was an archivist paleographer (class of 1931) who won three awards for her novels; she was also a journalist and reporter, a member of the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (AEAR), a communist, a member of the National Committee of Writers during the Second World War, a member of two ministerial cabinets (1936 and 1944), a member of the board of directors of the Union of French Women, the director of a women's newspaper, and also a historian, a librarian, a Protestant (converted), an anti-colonialist activist for human rights and "feminine humanism", a member of the jury of the Femina prize. She was a passionate, honest, uncompromising, whole, jealous, meticulous women with a an eventful life.
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