1904 - 2007
Lesley Blanch British Writer
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Lesley Blanch was previously married to Romain Gary.
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British Writer Lesley Blanch was born on 6th June, 1904 in London and passed away on 7th May 2007 Menton, France aged 102. She is most remembered for The Wilder Shores of Love. Her zodiac sign is Gemini.
Lesley Blanch is a member of the following lists: Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Members of the Order of the British Empire and 2007 deaths.
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Relationship Statistics
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| Married | 1 |
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Details
| First Name |
Lesley
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| Last Name |
Blanch
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| Full Name at Birth |
Lesley Blanch
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| Birthday |
6th June, 1904
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| Birthplace |
London
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| Died |
7th May, 2007
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| Place of Death |
Menton, France
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| Zodiac Sign |
Gemini
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| Ethnicity |
White
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation Text |
Author, Historian And Traveller
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| Occupation |
Writer
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| Claim to Fame |
The Wilder Shores of Love
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Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL (6 June 1904, London – 7 May 2007, Garavan near Menton, France) was a British author, historian and traveller. She is best known for The Wilder Shores of Love, about Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and explorer Richard), Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty who ended up living in the Syrian desert with a Bedouin chieftain), Aimée du Buc de Rivéry (a French convent girl captured by pirates and sent to the Sultan's harem in Istanbul), and Isabelle Eberhardt (a Swiss linguist who felt most comfortable in boy's clothes and lived among the Arabs in the Sahara).
