Adrienne Segur

Adrienne Segur (23 November 1901 – 11 August 1981) was a French children's book illustrator. Segur's illustrations were made known by the publishing house Flammarion in the 1950s and 1960s[1] and appeared particularly in The Golden Book of Fairy Tales.

Segur was born in Athens, Greece, in the family of French writer Nicolas Segur. Around 1932 she married the Egyptian poet and thinker Mounir Hafez.[1] In 1934, The Fairy Tales of Perrault by Adrienne Segur was published. In 1936–1939, Segur was the director of the children's column in Le Figaro where she made all the illustrations.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Irene Autin. "Once upon a time.... Adrienne Segur". Art Passions. Retrieved 11 September 2015.

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