Évelyne Pisier (18 October 1941 – 9 February 2017[1]) was a French writer and political scientist.
[1] She was the daughter of a French senior civil servant, Georges Pisier (30 June 1910 – 13 March 1986), who was a Maurrassien supporter of the Vichy regime and was stationed in Hanoi.
[2] In 1964, as a feminist activist involved with the political left, she traveled with other students, including Marcel-Francis Kahn (fr),[3] to Cuba where she started a 4-year relationship with Fidel Castro.
While continuing her activism, Pisier defended her thesis in public law in 1970[2] at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.
[5] Her thesis, entitled Le service public dans la théorie de l'État de Léon Duguit (The role of public service in Léon Duguit's theory of the state), was completed under the supervision of Georges Lavau (fr).