Jeanne-Marie Aynard

Jeanne-Marie Aynard, sometimes nicknamed Sam, born in Paris on September 19, 1907, and died in Laxou on January 24, 2002, was a French Assyriologist and philologist.

Biography She was born into a bourgeois Parisian family on September 19, 1907. Her full name was Henriette Jeanne-Marie Aynard. Jeanne-Marie resided in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, 1 Boulevard Montmorency. She won a radio music contest in 1927 organized by L'Écho de Paris. particularly in the management of the Assyrian collections at the Louvre. She collaborated with Adolf Leo Oppenheim on the interpretation of dreams in the ancient Near East. Aynard also worked on the topic of the afterlife in Mesopotamian thought.

She died on January 24, 2002, in Laxou, Meurthe-et-Moselle.

Legacy Serge Lebovici used her works as a source for his reflections on psychoanalysis.