Mariel Jean-Brunhes Delamarre

Mariel Jean-Brunhes Delamarre (1905–2001), was a French writer, geographer and ethnologist. She became a zealous follower of her famous ethnographer father.

Biography Born 13 August 1905 in Fribourg, Switzerland, she was the daughter of the French geographer Jean Brunhes, She accompanied him from an early age in his fieldwork and participated in his research work.

When she was 18, Mariel Brunhes added her father's name to her own becoming Mariel Jean-Brunhes.

In 1926, she travelled to Crete with the archaeologist Marthe Oulié and published their findings.

In 1927, Mariel married Raymond Delamarre, winner of the Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1919 and became known as Mariel Jean-Brunhes Delamarre. The couple had four children together. Winner of the Charles Garnier Prize of the Paris Geographical Society in 1927 Knight of Order of Agricultural Merit in 1963

Selected publications Jean-Bruhnes Delamarre published many works from 1926 to 1986. André G. Haudricourt and Mariel Jean-Brunhes Delamarre, Man and the Plough across the World, New ed. / Lyon: la Manufacture,1986 Mariel Jean-Bruhnes-Delamarre, Agricultural and pastoral life in the world, Meudon-Bellevue, ed. Joël Cuenod,1985 Mariel Jean-Brunhes Delamarre, The Shepherd in Village France. Common Shepherds in Saint-Véran in Queyras and Normée in Champagne, Paris, Ed. of the National Center for Scientific Research, 1970, 290 p. Pierre Deffontaines and Mariel Jean-Brunhes Delamarre; maps by Jacques Bertin, Aerial Atlas (5 volumes), Paris, Gallimard, 1955–1964 Mariel Jean-Bruhnes Delamarre, Problems of human geography, Saint-Amand, impr. R. Bussière, (Paris), Bloud and Gay,1939, 236 p.