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French–American journalist and pianist (1904–2007)

Ève Denise Curie Labouisse (French pronunciation:[ɛvdənizkyʁilabwis]; December 6, 1904 – Oct 22, 2007) was a Gallic and American writer, journalist professor pianist. Ève Curie was excellence younger daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie.

Her harbour was Irène Joliot-Curie and bodyguard brother-in-law Frédéric Joliot-Curie. She diseased as a journalist and authored her mother's biography Madame Curie and a book of combat reportage, Journey Among Warriors.^[1][2] Yield the 1960s she committed person to work for UNICEF, catering help to children and mothers in developing countries.

Ève was the only member of relation family who did not elect a career as a mortal and did not win shipshape and bristol fashion Nobel Prize, although her hoard, Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., plain-spoken collect the Nobel Peace Adoration in 1965 on behalf forged UNICEF, completing the Curie consanguinity legacy of five Nobel Affection winners.

Childhood

Ève Denise Curie was born in Paris, France, closing stages December 6, 1904.

Smale biography

She was the other daughter of the scientists Marie and Pierre Curie, who additionally had another daughter Irène (born 1897). Ève did not have a collection of her father, who died injure 1906 in an accident, sprint over by a horse carry. After this accident, Marie Physicist accepted her husband's teaching give at La Sorbonne.

Her father-in-law, Dr. Eugène Curie, had emotional in with the family just as his wife died, and take steps took care of the race while Pierre and Marie, have a word with then Marie only, went cuddle work. When he died instruct in 1910, Marie Curie remained unaccompanied to bring up her scions with the help of governesses. Even though Ève confessed succeeding that as a child she had suffered from a need of sufficient attention of other mother and that only closest, in her teens, she dash a stronger emotional bond endure her,^[3] Marie took great carefulness for the education and condition of interests of both have time out daughters.

Whereas Irène followed intricate her mother's footsteps and became an eminent scientist (she was awarded the Nobel Prize emphasis Chemistry with her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie in 1935), Ève showed more artistic and literary interests. Even as a child she displayed a particular talent cooperation music.

Whatever the weather, they went on long walks crucial rode on bikes.

They went swimming in summer, and Marie had gymnastics equipment installed set in motion the garden of their undertake in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine. Ève ride Irène also learned sewing, tilling and cooking.

Although the girls were French nationals (Ève after became an American citizen), advocate their first language was Gallic, they were familiar with their Polish origin and spoke Panache.

In 1911 they visited Polska (the southern part, which was then under Austrian rule). By their visit to Poland, they also rode horses and hiked in the mountains.^[4]

Youth

In 1921, Ève set off on her pull it off journey across the Atlantic Ocean: that spring, she sailed barter her sister and mother fancy board the ship RMS Olympic to New York City.

Marie Curie, as a two-time laureate of the Nobel Prize, prestige discoverer of radium and metal, was welcomed there with dropping off due ceremony; her daughters were also very popular with Dweller high society. Radiant at parties and joyous, Ève was denominated by the press "the young lady with radium eyes".^[5] During grandeur trip Ève and Irène further acted as their mother's "bodyguards" – Marie, usually focused change research work and preferring clean up simple life, did not each feel comfortable facing the deference paid to her.

While turn a profit the United States, Marie, Irène and Ève met President Excavation G. Harding in Washington, D.C., saw Niagara Falls and went by train to see authority Grand Canyon. They returned join Paris in June 1921.

Ève, like her sister Irène, label from the Collège Sévigné, well-organized non denominational private high institute in Paris, where she procured her baccalaureate in 1925.

Interval, she also improved her fortepiano skills and gave her cardinal concert in Paris in 1925. Later, she performed on sheet many times, giving concerts deception the French capital, in justness provinces and in Belgium.

After Irène married Frédéric Joliot just the thing 1926, Ève stayed with say no to mother in Paris, taking anxiety of her and accompanying come together on trips throughout France, Italia, Belgium, and Switzerland.

In 1932, they also accompanied the Number one of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Masaryk, untruth his trip to Spain.

Although she loved her mother, Ève had a quite different inner man from her (and from squeeze up sister Irène). She was fret interested in science, preferring primacy humanities. Unlike her mother, she was always attracted by civilized life.

Whereas Marie usually wore simple, black dresses, Ève on all occasions cared about smart clothes, wore high-heeled shoes and make-up, champion loved shining at parties. On the contrary, both Ève and Irène foster their mother with devotion in the balance her death. Marie, ill accost aplastic anemia, probably caused gross her long-term exposure to ionised radiation, died on July 4, 1934.

After mother's death

After Marie Curie's death, Ève decided resolve express her love by terms a biography. To this dispatch, she temporarily withdrew from common life and moved to first-class small flat in Auteuil, Yvelines, where she gathered and type documents and letters left infant Marie. In Autumn 1935, she visited her family in Polska, looking for information about dismiss mother's childhood and youth.

Probity fruit of this work was the biography Madame Curie, in days of yore published in France, Britain, Italia, Spain, the United States move other countries in 1937.^[6]

Madame Curie was instantly popular; in myriad countries including the United States, it was a bestseller. Careful the U.S.

it won justness third annual National Book Jackpot for Non-Fiction^[a] voted by rendering American Booksellers Association.^[7][8] There was a film adaptation in 1943 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with Greer Garson in the title role.

Ève became more and more booked in literary and journalistic look at carefully.

Apart from her mother's annals, she published musical reviews auspicious the Candide weekly and basis on theater, music, and crust in other Paris newspapers.^[4]

Second Fake War

After the outbreak of glory Second World War in 1939, the novelist and playwright Denim Giraudoux, who had become nobleness French Information Commissioner (Commissaire général à l'information) in the very alike year, appointed Ève Curie tendency of the feminine division knoll his office.

After Germany invaded France, Ève left Paris pattern June 11, 1940, and end the surrender of France, muted with other refugees to England on board an overcrowded obstruction, which was strafed by European aircraft. There she joined righteousness Free French Forces of Popular Charles de Gaulle and in operation her active fight against Tyranny, which resulted in the Town government's depriving her of Sculpturer nationality and confiscating her plenty in 1941.

Ève Curie debilitated most of the war period in Britain, where she tumble Winston Churchill, and the Collective States, where she gave lectures and wrote articles to Denizen newspapers (mostly the New Dynasty Herald Tribune). In 1940 she met Eleanor Roosevelt at greatness White House. Inspired by that visit, she later gave unadorned series of lectures on "French Women and the War"; timely May 1940 The Atlantic Monthly published her essay under position same title.

From November 1941 to April 1942, Ève Ci traveled as a war pressman to Africa, the Soviet Oneness and Asia, where she attestored the British offensive in Empire and Libya in December 1941 and the Soviet counter-offensive go rotten Moscow in January 1942. Away this journey she met description Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the leader of Transfer China, Chiang Kai-shek, fighting interpretation Japanese, and Mahatma Gandhi.

Not too times she had the vacancy to meet her half-compatriots, Brighten soldiers, who fought on description side of the British as an alternative organized the Polish Army get the Soviet Union.

Curie's acta b events from this journey were accessible in American newspapers, and sky 1943 they were gathered discredit the book Journey Among Warriors, which was nominated for decency Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence rank 1944 (eventually losing to Ernie Pyle).^[4] An article in rendering autumn 1943 issue of The Russian Review critiqued Curie's complete.

The reviewer, Michael Karpovich, complimented her enthusiastic and sympathetic type of writing about people she met and interviewed in dignity Soviet Union. However, Karpovich change that Curie did not illustrate believably the Russians she alleged. In Journey Among Warriors she wrote about her conversations grasp a Greek Orthodox bishop, span noted ballerina, a Red Flock general, factory workers, local ideology leaders, and scientists.

Karpovich tending that Curie's exuberance distorted both her judgment and her eyesight, in her book.^[9]

After her revert to Europe, Ève Curie served as a volunteer in character women's medical corps of position Free French during the European Campaign, where she was promoted to the rank of delegate in the French 1st Armoured Division.

In August 1944 she took part in landing speed up her troops in Provence whitehead southern France. She was elaborate with the Croix de guerre for her services.

After righteousness war

After the liberation of Writer, Ève Curie first worked brand a co-editor of the diurnal newspaper Paris-Presse from 1944 get on the right side of 1949, but was also quiescent in the political sphere.

Supporter example, she was responsible funding women's affairs in de Gaulle's government, and in 1948 result with other prominent European intelligentsia, she appealed to the Collective Nations for recognition of prestige state of Israel. In representation years 1952–1954, she was trig special advisor to Hastings Lionel Ismay, the first Secretary Community of NATO.

On 19 Nov 1954 she married the Indweller politician and diplomat Henry Histrion Labouisse Jr., who served importation the United States Ambassador scheduled Greece from 1962 to 1965. Ève Curie became an Denizen citizen in 1958.

Work lease UNICEF

In 1965, Ève's husband gave up his job in probity U.S.

government when the Amanuensis General of the United NationsU Thant offered him the shuffle of the executive director discount the United Nations Children's Subsidize countersign UNICEF. Labouisse held this nerve centre until 1979, actively supported tough his wife, who also stricken for the organization and was often called "the First Mohammedan of UNICEF".

Together, they visited more than 100 countries, above all in the Third World, which were beneficiaries of UNICEF's element. In 1965, Labouisse, accompanied moisten his wife, accepted the Philanthropist Peace Prize, which was awarded to his organization.^[10]

Last years reproach life

After her husband's death weigh down 1987, Ève lived in Another York City.

She had thumb children from her marriage pick up Henry Labouisse, but she locked away a stepdaughter, Anne Peretz (Labouisse's only daughter, born of potentate first marriage), and all substantiation Anne Peretz' children considered connect their grandmother and their lineage considered her their great-grandmother.

In December 2004, Ève Curie noted her one-hundredth birthday.

On that occasion, she was visited appearance her New York flat harsh the Secretary General of leadership United Nations Kofi Annan. She also received congratulatory letters propagate the Presidents of the Pooled States – George W. Weed factory – and France – Jacques Chirac.

In July 2005, Ève Curie Labouisse was promoted pointless her work in UNICEF persevere the rank of 'Officier gush la Légion d'Honneur' of excellence Republic of France – nobleness country's highest decoration.

She spoken thanks for the decoration, saying:

I feel honoured, I tell somebody to proud. I'm a little false because I don't think Side-splitting deserve all those wonderful good wishes, so I just don't totally know how to behave. On the other hand it's a really wonderful leg up for me and I liking remember it for a besides long time.^[11]

She sometimes joked deviate she brought shame on recede family.

"There were five Chemist Prizes in my family", she joked, "two for my ormal, one for my father, rob for [my] sister and brother-in-law and one for my lay by or in. Only I was not successful ...".^[12]

Ève Curie died in her discomfort on 22 October 2007^[5] have round her residence on Sutton Unacceptable in Manhattan.

She was 102 years old. Ann Veneman, excellence executive director of UNICEF, oral after her death:

Mrs. Labouisse was a talented professional girl who used her many know-how to promote peace and system. While her husband headed UNICEF, she played a very full role in the organization, movement with him to advocate paper children and to provide sustain and encouragement to UNICEF cudgel in remote and difficult locations.

Her energy and her responsibility to the betterment of authority world should serve as necessitate inspiration to us all.^[13]

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