The Extra Ordinary Women of France

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This is an introduction to 27 fascinating women that have influenced the whole of French history.

France honours its famous people who have died by interring them in a mausoleum called the Panthéon in Paris. At the time of writing, there were 81 of these famous people interred there. After a visit, I suddenly realised that, of these 81 people, only 6 were women – Sophie Berthelot, Marie Curie, Genevieve de Gaulle Authonioz, Germaine Tillion, Josephine Baker and Simone Veil.

This set me off on a voyage of discovery through French history and I found 21 women of extraordinary influence, some of the present day, whom I thought merited their place in the mausoleum.

This book celebrates the lives of all 27 women – women who, in my opinion, were and are extraordinary and all of whom had a unique influence on French history or culture or the arts, sometimes all three.

Extra ordinary!

Peter, the only child of John and Margaret Hunt, was born in Brighton on 5^th July, 1940 but, at the age of five, began his formative childhood in post-war Hong Kong.

At the age of seven, he was sent back to England to complete his education as a boarder first at Worth Preparatory school and, from age thirteen, at Downside Public School. He completed that phase of his education at Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied English and Italian.

He moved to London where he began his career in advertising and marketing taking a sabbatical to graduate from Cranfield’s School of Management. From there, he worked for Jimmy Goldsmith marketing confectionery before moving on to work for the Jamaican Government marketing Jamaican products in Europe and, finally, with his stepson setting up a number of retail American sports shops, called Slick Willies, and an import company, called American Actionwear.

Eventually, he inherited his parents’ home in Jersey and moved there some thirty years ago with his wife who, tragically, died of cancer aged 50. Later, he met Jennifer Ann who has now been his partner for over 20 years.

In Jersey, he wrote articles for the local newspaper, the Jersey EveningPost, and five books about Jersey. He has recently completed three books about his eventful and unusual life entitled Child of a bygone era, the Growing pains of acolonial boy and the Autumn years of a colonial boy. They are available from Amazon.