Marie Lenéru
Marie Lenéru (June 2, 1875 – September 23, 1918) was a French playwright and diarist. Lenéru became deaf and partially blind after contracting measles as a child. She was able to continue her education with the help of her mother, and in the 1910s and 1920s she wrote several plays that were performed in Paris, notably Les Affranchis. Biography Marie Lenéru was born in 1875 in Brest, France. Her family lived on rue de Siam. Her father Alfred Lenéru (1843–1876) was a naval lieutenant, a knight of the Legion of Honour, and a 1863 graduate of the École navale. He died when Marie was only 10 months old. The son of Parisian hoteliers, Alfred had married Marie Dauriac, the daughter of Rear Adm. Alexandre Dauriac and Augustine Hollard, in Brest in 1872. Other naval officers in Marie Lenéru's family included her great-grandfather Capt. Alexandre Dauriac and her uncles Commissioner General of the Navy Charles Dauriac and Capt. François Dauriac. She had one brother, Lionel Dauriac (1847–1923), who attended the École normale supérieure and became a philosophy professor and knight in the Legion of Honour. In May 1887, after having measles, Marie Lenéru became deaf and blind. She was 11 years