Andrée Viollis

A prominent figure in news journalism and major reporting, she was an anti-fascist and feminist activist who was part of the French group associated with the World Committee Against War and Fascism.

Viollis worked for various newspapers, including La Fronde, L'Écho de Paris, Excelsior, Le Petit Parisien, The Times, Daily Mail, Vendredi, Ce soir, and L'Humanité.

Andrée Françoise Claudius Jacquet de la Verryere[1] was born in Mées on 9 December 1870 to a cultivated bourgeois family.

In 1905, she married Henri d'Ardenne de Tizac, curator of the Musée Cernuschi and author of novels under the pseudonym of Jean Viollis.

[2] She investigated the USSR of 1927 ten years after the Bolshevik Revolution, testified to the Afghan civil war in 1929, to the Indian revolt in 1930, accompanied the Minister for the Colonies, Paul Reynaud in Indochina in 1931, and followed in 1932 the Shanghai incident.

With the support of André Chamson and Jean Guéhenno, she became the director of the weekly political-literary Vendredi,[2] where she defended the cause of the Spanish Republic and of the victims of French colonization.