Nicole Védrès (4 September 1911 – 20 November 1965), born Nicole Henriette Désirée Charlotte Cahen dit Nathan dit Rais, was a French author, columnist, essayist, journalist, screenwriter and film director.
An important figure in the post-war French cultural world, she signed several articles under different names, including “Nathan” and “Rais.” Nicole Vedrès was the daughter of Jules Rais, doctor of law, librarian of the Chamber of Deputies and art critic, and Ludmila Savitzky, of Russian origin and who was a translator of works by James Joyce.
Although Vedrès studied international law, she began a career as a journalist in the 1930s, writing for women's magazines and literary journals such as the Mercure de France.
[3] Védrès began her career as a screenwriter and documentary filmmaker in 1947, with Paris 1900, where, assisted by Yannick Bellon and Alain Resnais, she explored the archives of current affairs of the Belle Époque.
[5] In 1949, her film Life Begins Tomorrow proposes in a sensitive and modern way, like a docufiction, to watch Jean-Pierre Aumont who portrays a young provincial commercial employee disgusted by his time, at the meeting of French intellectuals: Jean-Paul Sartre, André Gide, Le Corbusier, Pablo Picasso, Jean Rostand, Irène Joliot-Curie, André Labarthe, Daniel Lagache, Jacques Prévertand and others are also mentioned.