French author, journalist, feminist activist and European politician
Louise Weiss (25 January 1893 – 26 May 1983) was a French author, journalist, feminist, and European politician. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 and for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974. Life. Born in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Louise Weiss came from a cosmopolitan family of Alsace. Her father, Paul Louis Weiss (1867-1945), a mining engineer, was a distinguished Alsatian Protestant from La Petite-Pierre. The ancestors of her Jewish mother, Jeanne Félicie Javal (1871-1956), originated from the small Alsatian town of Seppois-le-Bas.
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Louise Weiss (25 January 1893 – 26 May 1983) was a French author, journalist, feminist, and European politician. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 and for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974. Life. Born in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Louise Weiss came from a cosmopolitan family of Alsace. Her father, Paul Louis Weiss (1867-1945), a mining engineer, was a distinguished Alsatian Protestant from La Petite-Pierre. The ancestors of her Jewish mother, Jeanne Félicie Javal (1871-1956), originated from the small Alsatian town of Seppois-le-Bas.
