Marthe Oulié

Marthe Germaine Oulié (24 December 1901 – 14 July 1941), also known as Marthe Oulie, was a French archaeologist and woman of letters who sailed the Mediterranean between Marseille and Athens in a nonmotorized ship with an all-female crew for carrying out archaeological excavation in Crete in 1925. She was “unusually adventurous in her travels.”

Biography Born on 24 December 1901, Marthe Oulié was the daughter of an Aveyron resident from Paris. Between 1912 and 1915, she studied at the Lycée Molière, a local public school in Paris. She obtained her baccalauréat at the age of sixteen and later graduated from the École du Louvre with a major in archaeology. In 1926 she wrote her thesis on Le Cosmopolitisme du prince de Ligne, 1735 – 1814 and received doctorate in letters from the Sorbonne.

She wrote numerous travel novels.

Oulié attended the International Congress of Women in Chicago in 1933 as a delegate. Later, she was invited to lunch with President Franklin Roosevelt at his Hyde Park, New York, home.