Louise Weiss
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Louise Weiss was a French author, journalist, feminist, and European politician. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 and for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974.
Weiss in 1980
Louise Weiss at her desk
Weiss (front) along with other suffragettes at the Bastille in Paris in 1935
Alice Weiller
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Alice Anna Weiller was a French art collector murdered at Auschwitz due to her Jewish heritage. The wife of Lazare Weiller, she was awarded the Legion of Honour. During the Second World War, she was i
Louise Weiss
…originated from the small Alsatian town of Seppois-le-Bas. Her maternal grandfather was Louis Émile Javal. Through her mother, she was the niece of Alice Weiller (née Javal) and the cousin of Paul-Louis Weiller, the son of Alice and Lazare Weiller. One of her siblings was Jenny Aubry. She grew up in Paris with…
Wilbur Wright in France, October 1908