PODCASTS. “Incroyables destins”: Jeanne Galzy, free woman, discreet feminist and forgotten writer

Jeanne Galzy a obtenu le prix Femina en 1923. MIDI LIBRE

Dans ce nouvel épisode d' "Incroyables destins", découvrez la vie de cette écrivaine d’avant-garde, insoumise et dont les écrits résonnent encore.

Is her parents' insubordination the foundation of her existence ? Jeanne Galzy was born in 1883 to a Protestant mother and a Catholic father. An ecumenical union that was rare in this corseted end of the 19th century, which denotes two free, liberated and insubordinate spirits.

Thus little Jeanne grew up at 27 rue de la Grand-rue in Montpellier, rocked by open-minded parents who encouraged her to study. “She had an important education for a girl of the time. Jeanne Galzy – who was actually called Baraduc – joined Clémenceau, the first high school for girls in France, created in 1880”, says Michèle Verdelhan-Bourgade, author of “Jeanne Galzy. An extraordinary woman of letters”.

The student Jeanne continued her studies at the École Normale Supérieure and obtained the “female agrégation in letters” in 1911.

She then comes very early to writing – influenced by her mother who was passionate about poetry – and wrote verses published in the great literary magazine of the time, Mercure de France. Thus began her career as a writer. Until she won the Prix Femina in 1923…