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Curie, Eve (Mrs. Eve Labouisse)

Born: 1904 AD
Currently alive, at 107 years of age.

Nationality: French
Categories: Authors

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1904 - Born on the 6th of December in Paris.

1911 - When Ève was less than seven years old, she and her older sister Irène accompanied their mother to Poland to visit Marie Curie's sister, BronisBawa, at the sanatorium.

1921 - Ève, then 16 years old, and Irène traveled to New York with their mother on the ship, the Olympic, for Ève's first trip to the United States.

1925 - She also studied piano for many years, performed her first concert in Paris.

1932 - She translated and adapted the American play, Spread Eagle, written by George S. Brooks and Walter B. Lister, for stage production in France.

1935 - Ève Curie also journeyed to Poland in the fall, where some family remained, searching for additional information about her mother's youth.

1937 - Curie also won the National Book Award for non-fiction for Madame Curie.

1940 - In May, her essay on French Women and the War, was published in Atlantic Monthly.

1943 - The biography was adapted by Aldous Huxley and other writers, and released by MGM as a film.

1945-1949 - Curie was the co-publisher of the daily newspaper, Paris-Presse, in Paris.

1952 - She was appointed as the Special Advisor to the Secretary General of NATO.

1954 - She held this position on its international staff.

         - On the 19th of November, Curie married Henry Richardson Labouisse who was the U.S. ambassador to Greece.

1962-1965 - Curie served as the executive director of the United Nations' Childrens' Fund, Greece.

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