page_title: Marcelle Auclair
section_title: Literary and journalistic contributions
hierarchical_section_title: Marcelle Auclair / Literary and journalistic contributions
context_page_description: Marcelle Auclair was a French novelist, biographer, journalist and poet. She published biographies of several important historical figures, translated major historical/literary documents into French from Spanish, and wrote a novel. She also published an autobiographical work, two books on popular psychology, a religious book for children, a book on artistic images of Jesus. Several of her books were translated into English. She was co-founder with Jean Prouvost of the fashion magazine Marie Claire.
context_section_description: Auclair published biographies of two Roman Catholic saints, Teresa of Avila (1950) and Bernadette of Lourdes (1957). She also published biographies of Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, whom she knew personally (1968), and of the early 20th century pro-peace French socialist Jean Jaurès (1954).
  Auclair's first original publication was Transparence, a book of original poetry in Spanish, published when she was 20 years old, and living in Santiago, Chile.
  Another early publication, in French, was Auclair's novel, Toya, published in 1927.
  In 1937, Auclair and Jean Prouvost founded the fashion magazine Marie Claire.
  Auclair wrote many articles for Marie Claire, extending over a period of several years. In A History of Private Life (1991), writing about Auclair's time as a columnist for the magazine Marie Claire, Antoine Prost stated that 
  Columnists such as Marcelle Auclair, Marcelle Ségal, and Ménie Grégoire, who answered readers’ letters, became confessors to the nation. New moral authorities, they dispensed intimate advice to millions every week.
  In the 1950s, Auclair published two popular books on how to lead a happy life, Le bonheur est en vous (1951) and La Pratique du bonheur (1956).
  In 1953, Auclair published a French-language children's book about the life of Jesus. 
  The book was republished in English translation in both the US
  and the UK.
  Auclair's translation of the complete works of Teresa of Avila from Spanish to French was first published in 1964.
  At age 78, five years before her death, Auclair published an autobiographical work with her daughter, actress Françoise Prévost.
  In European Literary Heritage,
  Auclair was described as "particularly attached to moral issues and the situation of women in the contemporary world [particulièrement attachée aux problèmes moraux et à la situation de la femme dans le monde contemporain]."
caption: St. Bernadette of Lourdes (1844–1879)
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