Monique Saint-Hélier was the pseudonym of Berthe Eimann-Briod (born 2 September 1895 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland - 9 March 1955 in Pacy-sur-Eure, France), a Swiss writer.
Saint-Hélier was born in 1895 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, one of the most famous cities for Swiss watch production.
In 1940, she fled from the invasion of the German troops, but soon had to return to Paris, where she remained in her sickbed until the end of the war.
[5] The literary scholar Doris Jakubec sees parallels to Marcel Proust's polyphonic narrative style.
Saint-Hélier's main work is an unfinished cycle of novels about the decline of the Alérac, Balagny and Graew families in the Swiss town of La Chaux-de-Fonds.