Clarisse Francillon

CLARISSE FRANCILLON (1899 – 1976) was born in Switzerland and then moved to Paris in 1934, where she was “discovered” by the famous editor Maurice Nadeau. In her lifetime, she published roughly twenty novels and dozens of short stories, and was critically acclaimed in both France and Switzerland. She wrote both conventional and more experimental forms of fiction, and she bravely explored taboo subjects related to women’s lives. Very often set in Paris, she wrote about single women, ambitious women, difficult women. None of her work has previously been translated into English.