About Adrienne Segur
Lived 1901 – 1981 (aged 79). Adrienne Segur was a painter.
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 and appeared particularly in The Fairy Tale Book, the English translation of Il Etait Une Fois published in 1958 by Golden Books, Simon and Schuster.
Segur was born in Athens, Greece, in the family of French writer Nicolas Segur. Around 1932 she married the Egyptian poet and thinker :fr:Mounir Hafez. 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.
Segur died in Paris, France.
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Who was Adrienne Segur?
French children's book illustrator (1901–1981)
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Adrienne Segur was born on 23 November 1901 in Athens.
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Adrienne Segur died on 11 August 1981 in Paris.
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Adrienne Segur was a painter.
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