About Louise Weiss
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. Her maternal grandfather was Louis Émile Javal. Through her mother, she was the niece of Alice Weiller (née Javal) and the cousin of Paul-Louis Weiller, the son of Alice and Lazare Weiller. One of her siblings was Jenny Aubry. She grew up in Paris with five siblings, was trained as a teacher against the will of her family, was a teacher at a secondary school for arts and was awarded a degree from Oxford University. From 1914 to 1918, she worked as a war nurse and founded a hospital in the Côtes-du-Nord.
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