Constance Debré, born in 1972, is a French lawyer and novelist.

Biography

Constance Debré's parents were journalist François Debré (1942–2020) and former model Maylis Ybarnégaray (1942–1988); the judge and politician

Jean-Louis Debré Jean-Louis Debré (; born 30 September 1944) is a former French judge and politician who served as President of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007 and President of the Constitutional Council from 2007 to 2016.Michel Debré Michel Jean-Pierre Debré (; 15 January 1912 – 2 August 1996) was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President Charles de Gaulle from 1959 ...

(1912–1996), former Prime Minister under General de Gaulle, and Jean Ybarnégaray (1883–1956), a minister of the

Vichy regime Vichy France (french: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its terr ...

and resistance fighter. She was 16 when her mother died. She studied at

Lycée Henri-IV The Lycée Henri-IV is a public secondary school located in Paris. Along with the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, it is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious and demanding sixth-form colleges (''lycées'') in France. The school educates more than ...

, then law at Panthéon-Assas University. She is also a graduate of class 99 (E99) of the

ESSEC Business School The École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (more commonly ESSEC Business School or ESSEC) is a major French business and management school, with non-profit association status (French association law of 1901) founded in 1907 ...

. She married in 1993 and had a son in 2008. Working as a defence lawyer, she accompanied her father in 2011 when he was charged in an inquiry into fictitious jobs at the town hall of Paris. In 2013, she was elected second secretary of the Conference of Lawyers of the Paris Bar. In 2015, she left her husband and her job to live with a woman and pursue a full-time career as a writer. In 2018, she won the for her autobiographical novel ''Play Boy'', which describes the aftermath of this fateful decision: the custody battle over her son, and its associated pressures to conform to a "bourgeois" family model with a same-sex partner. It formed the first book in a trilogy.

Books

* ''Un peu là, beaucoup ailleurs'', Monaco-Paris, France, Le Rocher, 2004, ,

Prix Contrepoint The prix Contrepoint is a French literary award established in 1971 by a group of young French novelists and journalists. Each year a French-speaking novelist is selected. According to Bertrand Labes,. this prize was characterized at its creation ...

, 2005 * ''Manuel pratique de l'idéal. Abécédaire de survie'', Monaco-Paris, France, Le Rocher, 2007, * ''Play Boy'', Paris, Éditions Stock, 2018, * ''Love me tender'', Paris, Éditions Flammarion, 2020, **Translated into English by Holly James, 2023, * ''Nom'', Paris, Éditions Flammarion, 2022, * ''Offenses'', Paris, Éditions Flammarion, 2023,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Debré, Constance Living people 1972 births 21st-century French novelists French lesbian writers 21st-century French women lawyers Lycée Henri-IV alumni Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University alumni ESSEC Business School alumni