Andrée Françoise Claudius Jacquet de la Verryere[1] was born in Mées on 9 December 1870 to a cultivated bourgeois family. After obtaining her baccalaureate, she studied at the Sorbonne and graduated from the University of Oxford.[2]
Career
After graduation, she turned to journalism and made her debut in the feminist newspaper La Fronde, directed by Marguerite Durand.
She married Gustave Téry, professor of philosophy, with whom she had two children, including Simone Téry. In 1903, when Simone was four, Andree divorced Gustave. In 1905, she married Henri d'Ardenne de Tizac, curator of the Musée Cernuschi and author of novels under the pseudonym of Jean Viollis. They had two other children. With her second husband, she became involved in literary journalism as a critic, columnist, serialist, and storyteller; they also co-authored novels.[2]
Viollis affiliated with L'Écho de Paris and Excelsior, writing in favor of women's emancipation and the rights of the mother.[2] From 1914, she worked at the newspaper Le Petit Parisien, staying twenty years, where she turned to major reporting and covered diverse areas, including sporting events, major trials, political interviews, and war correspondence. During World War I, for the period of 1914 to 1916, she served as a nurse at the front, as well as at Bar-le-Duc and Sainte-Menehould.[2]
In 1919 and until 1922, she served as editorial assistant to The Times and the Daily Mail.[2] She investigated the USSR of 1927 ten years after the Bolshevik Revolution, testified to the Afghan civil war in 1929, to the Indian revolt in 1930, accompanied the Minister for the Colonies, Paul Reynaud in Indochina in 1931, and followed in 1932 the Shanghai incident.
In 1945, Andrée Viollis worked again with Ce soir. She also collaborated with some publications of the communist movement. She took up major reports, which leads her to travel to South Africa. In the same year, she was sent by L'Humanité to the United States to cover the French section of the Office of War Information.[2]
Viollis died in Paris on 9 August 1950. She was interred in the Montparnasse Cemetery. Her grave does not include a date of birth.
Selected works
Criquet, Calmann-Lévy, 1913
Lord Northcliffe, B. Grasset, 1919
La perdrix dorée, Baudinière coll. "Les Maîtres de la plume", 1925
La Vraie Mme de La Fayette, Bloud et Gay, 1926
Seule en Russie, de la Baltique à la Caspienne, Gallimard, 1927
Alsace et Lorraine au-dessus des passions, V. Attinger coll. "Occident", 1928
L'Inde contre les Anglais, Éd. des portiques, 1930
Tourmente sur l'Afghanistan, Librairie Valois, coll. "Explorations du monde nouveau", 1930
Changhaï et le destin de la Chine, R.-A. Corrêa, coll. "Faits et gestes", 1933 (Introduction de Henri Rohrer)
Le Japon et son empire, B. Grasset, coll. "Les Ecrits", 1933
Le Japon intime, F. Aubier, coll. "des Documents", 1934
Le Conflit sino-japonais, M. Maupoint, 1938
Notre Tunisie, Gallimard, 1939
Le Racisme hitlérien, machine de guerre contre la France, 1943
Le Secret de la reine Christine, Éditions Agence Gutenberg, coll. "Les Vies illustres romancées", 1944
Puycerrampion (avec Jean Viollis), la Bibliothèque française, 1947
L'Afrique du Sud, cette inconnue, Hachette, coll. "Choses vues, aventures vécues", 1948
References
^"Visionneuse". Archives départementales des Alpes de Haute Provence. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
Alice-Anne Jeandel, Andrée Viollis: Une femme grand reporter, une écriture de l'événement 1927-1939, Inter-National, 2006 ISBN2-296-00699-Xl'Harmattan (in French)