Nelly de Vogüé

Countess Hélène "Nelly" Marie Henriette de Vogüé (; née von Jaunez; 28 November 1908 – 17 June 2003) was a French aristocrat, socialite, businesswoman, painter, and writer. She studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris before succeeding her father as president of Haviland France, her family's ceramics company.

During World War II, de Vogüé was surveilled by the Allied Intelligence Bureau after her ability to move freely, using various aliases, between Allied and Axis territories raised suspicions. The Office of Strategic Services filed over seventeen pages in reports detailing their suspicion that de Vogüé may have been an agent of Vichy France and a Nazi collaborator.

She was the long-time mistress of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and was referred to as Madame de B. in his biographies and as The Beautiful E in the memoirs of Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry. Following de Saint-Exupéry's presumed death in 1944, de Vogüé became the executrix of his literary works and, under the nom de plume Pierre Chevrier, authored his biography in 1949. She published the posthumous editions of de Saint-Exupéry's manuscripts for Écrits de guerre, Citadelle, and Carnets. She submitted her collection of de Saint-Exupéry's writings to the Archives Nationales, where they will be privately held until 2053.

Biography De Vogüé was born on 28 November 1908 to Maximilian von Jaunez, a prominent French-German industrialist who was part of the Prussian nobility and owned a large ceramics factory in Eastern France, and Jeanne de Montagnac, a singer and a daughter of Louis Elizé de Montagnac, Baron de Montagnac. De Vogüé's parents divorced in 1911. Her mother married a second time, in 1925, to Count Charles M César Ludovic de Polignac and her father married a second time, in 1927, to Florrie King.

She was considered a "ravishing beauty" and was renowned in Parisian society for her beauty and her intellect. De Vogüé was a passionate painter and studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. They met again afterwards attending Parisian salons. Consuelo knew of the affair, which caused her much distress, and referred to de Vogüé as the beautiful E in her memoirs.

In 1943, she joined de Saint-Exupéry in Algiers, arriving from Gibraltar in an American plane that was being watched by the Allied Intelligence Bureau due to there being a rising suspicion in her ability to move freely between Allied and Axis territory. She also published the posthumous editions of de Saint-Exupéry's manuscripts for Écrits de guerre, Citadelle, and Carnets.