Berlioux learned swimming herself in 1917. In the 1930s she trained the school sections of swimming clubs. Working as a teacher, she included in 1935 swimming lessons in her school program and took care of bringing her students to the swimming pool. The initiative was however stopped by her superiors.[1]
Berlioux kissing her daughter Monique after she broke the French 100m backstroke record in 1943
Her father Georges Poincarré was an industrialist. She married to Eugène Berlioux who was trainer at CNP and Morocco in 1950. Her daughters were swimming champions Monique Berlioux and Lucette Berlioux. She was a teacher between 1926 and 1953.[1]
In 1966 she appeared in the short film Aquarelle [fr], by Dominique Delouche. The film received the Grand Prize at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Festival.
Born in Nogent, Haute-Marne, she later lived in Nancy, Marseille and Metz. In 1926 she moved to Paris. During World War II, she fled Paris with her family to Normandy in 1943. After World War II they moved back to Paris where she lived until 1969.[1]
She survived her daughter Lucette Berlioux who died in 1966. She died on 14 February 1898 in Nogent, Haute-Marne at the age of 86.
The Suzanne-Berlioux sports center in Paris is named after her. The sports center consists of the Suzanne-Berlioux gymnasium and the Suzanne-Berlioux swimming pool [fr], an underground center located in the Forum des Halles, in the Halles district of the 1st arrondissement of Paris.
