Georges Cattaui (14 September 1896[1] – 1974) was a French writer of Egyptian-Jewish origin.
[2][3] First cousin of Jean de Menasce,[4] he belonged to the Jewish aristocracy of Alexandria, where he spent his first years.
Born in Paris on 14 September 1896, Felix Georges Cattaui (son of Adolphe Cattaui and Rachel Francis), studied at the Lycée Carnot, and then studied law which opened his diplomatic career.
He founded L'Atelier (the workshop) in Cairo and organized the third anniversary of the birth of Molière, then the popular university, a privileged place for French culture in Egypt.
While pursuing a career as a diplomat, he published several essays and biographies, particularly on Marcel Proust[5]