Henriette Arasse

[1] She was one of the forty-one graduates of the École Normale Supérieure who passed the exam before it became reserved for men in 1940.

[2] In 1938, she was admitted to the agrégation de lettres, the nineteenth,[3] and is appointed teacher in literary preparatory classes at the Lycée Molière alongside Suzanne Rey.

[3] From their union was born Daniel Arasse, French art historian.

[8] Committed to the Franco-Ancienne, she was an independent candidate for the Secondary Education Council in 1958.

[9] Auditioned in 1964 by the higher education study commission, she recalled her attachment to Latin, which she taught.