- Specialist on ancient Greece. The second woman to join the Academie Française.
- Was one of France's leading scholars of Greek civilization and language and only the second woman to be elected to the Académie Française.
- Scholar who specialized in ancient Greek culture and language.
- Second woman to be admitted to the Academie Francaise, the official government body that approves (and disapproves) changes in the French language. (Marguerite Yourcenar was the first.).
- First woman to teach at the College de France.
- Her father was a philosophy professor who was killed in action in WWI. She was raised by her mother, a novelist.
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