Juliette Clarens

Juliette Clarens (10 April 1887 – 10 October 1978), born Juliette Marie Charlotte Dietz-Monnin, was a French actress, singer, and writer.

Early life Juliette Marie Charlotte Dietz-Monnin was born in Paris in 1887, the daughter of Jules Dietz-Monnin and Henriette Adrienne Marie Adolphine Hallier. Her father's family, of Alsatian origin, was socially and politically prominent; her grandfather was life senator Charles F. Dietz-Monnin, and her grandmother Adèle is featured in a painting by Edgar Degas. Because of their social standing, her choice of a stage career was considered newsworthy. She studied with Comédie-Française actress Thérèse Kolb.

Career Clarens was a stage actress and singer in Paris before 1920, a colleague to Cécile Sorel Geneviève Vix, and Yvonne Garrick. Like them, she was considered a stylish beauty, and she was often featured in fashion photographs in magazines and on postcards. She lectured on fashion trends.

Later in life, Clarens was a writer, publicist, and journalist, author of D'avant-hier à aujourd'hui (1962).

Personal life In 1907, Clarens broke an engagement to marry French writer Francis de Croisset, reportedly to marry a Belgian banker named Lowenstein. She had a daughter, Yvonne Pierre-Mortier, with writer Pierre Mortier. Juliette Clarens died in Paris in 1978, aged 91 years.