Suzanne Tenand

Suzanne Tenand (born on August 21, 1909 in Serrières-de-Briord; died on August 2, 2005 in Jujurieux in the Ain) is a journalist, historian and critic of French art.

After the Second World War, alongside her critical art activities, she became involved in the local history of the department of Ain, and especially in Bugey, in his native land. She devoted the last forty years of her life to the preservation of the Château des Allymes (a 14th-century medieval fortress) in Ambérieu-en-Bugey.

Biography Square Suzanne-Tenand-Ulmann in Brey de Vent (Ambérieu-en-Bugey). Suzanne Tenand attended the École du Louvre and the École pratique des hautes études, where she obtained a diploma in Egyptology. She participated in the anti-fascist movements of the 1930s and met André Ulmann, whom she married in December 1937. She left Paris in 1940 to move in with her son to the Allymes house.

In 1960, she founded, with Prince Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, the Association "Friends of René de Lucinge and the Château des Allymes".