Adrienne Segur

Adrienne Segur (23 November 1901 – 11 August 1981) was a French children's book illustrator. Segur's illustrations were made known by the publishing house Flammarion in the 1950s and 1960s[1] and appeared particularly in The Fairy Tale Book, the English translation of Il Etait Une Fois published in 1958 by Golden Books | Simon and Schuster.

Segur was born in Athens, Greece, in the family of French writer Nicolas Segur. Around 1932 she married the Egyptian poet and thinker Mounir Hafez.[1] In 1934, The Fairy Tales of Perrault by Adrienne Segur was published. In 1936–1939, Segur was the director of the children's column in Le Figaro where she made all the illustrations.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Christine Norstrand. "Once upon a time.... Adrienne Segur". Art Passions. Retrieved 11 September 2015.

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