Between Prague and Paris. Unknown and Little-Known ‘Heroines’ of the Czech-French Cultural World of the First Half of the 20th Century
| Pages | 6-24 |
|---|---|
| DOI | 10.37520/amnpsc.2020.019 |
| Keywords | Prague – Paris – first half of the 20th century – Czech-French relations – women – Junia Letty-Castagnou (1893–1941) – Lída Durdíková-Faucher (1899–1955) – Madeleine David-Vokounová (1902–1989) – Raymonde Coupée-Zajícová (1901–1976) – Marcelle Michel-Pospíšilová (1901–1989) – Jacqueline Mazon (ca 1917–2008) |
| Type of Article | Peer-reviewed |
| Citation | KAŠPAROVÁ, Jaroslava. Between Prague and Paris. Unknown and Little-Known ‘Heroines’ of the Czech-French Cultural World of the First Half of the 20th Century. Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae – Historia litterarum. Prague: National Museum, 2020, 65(3-4), 6-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/amnpsc.2020.019. ISSN 2570-6861 (Print), 2570-687X (Online). Also available from: https://publikace.nm.cz/en/periodicals/amnphl/65-3-4/between-prague-and-paris-unknown-and-little-known-heroines-of-the-czech-french-cultural-world-of-the-first-half-of-the-20th-century |
The article describes the lives of several Czech-French female ‘heroines’, writers and scientists active in the first half of the 20th century who we encountered in connection with research into book provenances in Czech and French institutions and whose fates are little known, or even unknown, to the Czech and French cultural public. The first part, entitled ‘Paris in Prague and Prague in Paris’, tells the story of two women, a Francophone Belgian and a Czech living in France. The second part, ‘French Women Married to Czechs’, maps the lives of three French women who were engaged in pedagogical, translation, educational and scientific activities and who were forced to leave Czechoslovakia after 1948 for political reasons. The last part, ‘The Daughter of a Famous Father’, deals with the life of the Bohemist Jacqueline Mazon, the daughter of the distinguished French Slavist André Mazon.
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