Antonina Vallentin (pseudonym of Antonina Vallentin Luchaire, née Silberstein, born in Lemberg 3 October 1893, dead in Paris 29 August 1957), was a Polish-born biographer, art critic, editor and translator.
[1][2] While working for the German Foreign Ministry under Gustav Stresemann, Vallentin met H. G. Wells and invited him to deliver an address on world peace to the Reichstag.
[3] In 1929 she married the French politician and author Julien Luchaire, whose son Jean was held in high esteem with the German administration during the Nazi occupation, which helped Antonina to escape German and Vichy persecution.