Born into a poor family, despite receiving little education, she was a voracious reader and memorised one of the few books she had access to, an almanac, by the age of four.

She aspired to be a teacher; however, instead she was employed as a level crossing operator on the railway line her father had helped create, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Reading her work, he connected her to other local authors, including Lucien Gachon, Pierre Balme, Georges Desdevises du Dézert, Alexandre Vialatte and Amelie Murat.

Her writing was generally well-received, particularly her novel Le Mile des Garret, published by Henri Poulaille in 1931 with a preface by Alexandre Vialatte.

[7] Combe wrote a single novel, Le Mile des Garret, which was originally published in 1931 as part the Romans du Nouvel Age collection.