Germaine Brée (2 October 1907 – 22 September 2001) was a French-American literary scholar, who wrote extensively on Marcel Proust, Andre Gide, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
[1] Born in Paris, Germaine Brée grew up in the English-speaking Channel Islands.
Appointed to teach at Bryn Mawr in 1936,[3] she returned to France to fight for the Free French when World War II broke out.
She joined a volunteer ambulance unit, rising to the rank of lieutenant, and was assigned to the intelligence section of the Free French in Algiers.
[2] In 1953 Brée was appointed chair of the French department at New York University College of Arts & Science, the second woman to be appointed a department chair at the university.