27 October 2015

Paris 2015: Cimetière parisien de Bagneux #10: Brigitte Gros

'BRIGITTE GROS
NÉE SERVAN-SCHREIBER LE 12 JUIN 1925
SÉNATEUR MAIRE DE MEULAN
1965 – 1985
DÉCÉDÉE LE 11 MARS 1985'

Brigitte Gros was a politician and a writer, the daughter of the writer Émile Servan-Schreiber and the sister of the journalist, essayist and politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. Earlier in her writing career she wrote novels such as Véronique dans l'appareil (1960) and Quatre heures de transport par jour (1970), which was adapted into a 1973 film called Elle court, elle court la banlieue. Later she wrote non-fiction books on urban living such as Les Paradisiennes : La Vie des femmes dans la cité (1973) and Une Maison pour chaque Français (1977).

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