Sclafert earned a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Grenoble[1] and one of her professors was Raoul Blanchard, a geographer, who prepared her for the license before 1914.
[3] She defended her doctoral thesis in letters, Le Haut Dauphiné au Moyen Age, in 1926, in Paris, after 15 years of research,[1] and obtained the very honorable mention.
[4] Despite the publication of her thesis (which she dedicated to her parents[3]) in 1926, Sclafert continued her job as a grammar and Latin teacher at the École Normale Supérieure in Fontenay.
She and Lucie Varga are the only two women to have each published an article (Sclafert's was "The roads of Dauphiné and Provence under the influence of the stay of the popes in Avignon") in the Revue des Annales between 1929 and 1944.
[3] In 1935, Anne-Marie Grauvogel was dismissed from the Fontenay-aux-Roses school, at which time Sclafert took early retirement, left Paris and settled in Manosque, where she continued her research on the southern Alps.
In a reading report that he makes during his edition, Lucien Gallois indicates that it “belongs to geography as much as to history.” Sclafert published numerous articles in journals such as the Revue de Géographie Alpine, the Annales.