The owner of the bookshop was so taken aback at the quantity of books she would request by post that he addressed his shipments to Lucie Faure, bookseller at Le Havre.

Later, when her father became president, she caused a stir in a reception held for Cardinal Perraud by admitting to the Bishop of Autun that she had read The City of God and Summa Theologica in Latin.

She married thirty four year old French historian Georges Goyau on 10 November 1903 at the Saint-Honoré d'Eylau church.

She visited Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt (with Pierpont Morgan), the Holy Land, Greece and Italy, and invariably wrote detailed memoirs of her journeys and experiences.

[3] Faure-Goyau published several books under the name of Lucie Félix-Faure Goyau, notably a biography of French writer Eugénie de Guérin.