Lesley Blanch MBE FRSL
(1904-2007)
woman, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Died aged c. 103
Wikidata WikipediaLesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL (6 June 1904, London – 7 May 2007, Garavan near Menton, France) was a British writer, historian and traveller. She is best known for The Wilder Shores of Love, about Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and explorer Richard), Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty who ended up living in the Syrian desert with a Bedouin chieftain), Aimée du Buc de Rivéry (a French convent woman captured by pirates and sent to the Sultan's harem in Istanbul), and Isabelle Eberhardt (a Swiss linguist who felt most comfortable in boy's clothes and lived among the Arabs in the Sahara).
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Aux n° 4/6 de cette impasse, vécut de 1950 à 1957 avec son épouse Lesley Blanch, écrivain anglais, Romain Gary Prix Goncourt 1956, puis 1975 sous le pseudonyme d’Emile Ajar
English translation: In number 4/6 of this street, lived from 1950 to 1957 with his wife Lesley Blanch, English writer Romain Gary Prix Goncourt 1956 and 1975 under the pseudonym Emile Ajar
Impasse Scarouget, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France where they lived (1950-1957)