Mary Summer (1842–1902) was the pseudonym used by French writer and historian Marie Filon, who was recognized for her orientalist studies and her novels, as well as for being the wife of the renowned Tibetologist Philippe Édouard Foucaux.
[1] Marie Filon was the youngest daughter born to French historian, Charles Auguste Désiré Filon, and Marie Théodorine Sandrie-des-Fosses whom he had married on 25 August 1828.
The couple had three children: François Gabriel (born 1835), Pierre-Marie Augustin Filon (1841–1916) and young Marie.
[3][4] Little is known of Mary Summer as an adult, except that she married Philippe Édouard Foucaux, the French Tibetologist who authored the first Tibetan grammar books in French.
Mary Summer also became a recognized orientalist, based on her numerous published works in this area.