Constance Debré

Constance Debré, born in 1972, is a French lawyer and novelist.

Her grandparents included Michel Debré (1912–1996), former Prime Minister under General de Gaulle, and Jean Ybarnégaray (1883–1956), a minister of the Vichy regime and resistance fighter.

[2] Working as a defence lawyer, she accompanied her father in 2011 when he was charged in an inquiry into fictitious jobs at the town hall of Paris.

[3] In 2015, she left her husband and her job to live with a woman and pursue a full-time career as a writer.

In 2018, she won the Prix La Coupole [fr] for her autobiographical novel Play Boy, which describes the aftermath of this fateful decision: the custody battle over her son, and its associated pressures to conform to a "bourgeois" family model with a same-sex partner.