Edmonde Charles-Roux

Edmonde Charles-Roux (1920–2016) was a French journalist and writer. She began her career as an editor at the magazine Elle and served as editor-in-chief of the French edition of Vogue from 1950 to 1966. Her novel Forget Palermo won the Prix Goncourt in 1966. Among her other distinctions was her appointment as a Commander of the French Legion of Honour in 2010.