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Jeanne Arcache (Arabic: جان اركاش, 1902–1961) is a pioneer Lebanese Francophone poet, novelist, and journalist, who wrote for French-language periodicals in Egypt.[1][2]
Arcache was born in 1902 in Alexandria to a Lebanese father and a French mother. She attended the Lycée Française in her native city and pursued an education in literature and music.[3] Arcache wrote for several journals in Egypt, most notably the weekly Image,[1] La Semaine Egyptienne,[4] and the monthly La Revue du Caire.[1] She was a member of La société des auteurs libanais de langue française (The Society of French-speaking Lebanese Authors) which included leading authors such as Michel Chiha, Michel Talhamé, Georges Schéhadé, Emile Cousa, Alfred Naccache, Eveline Bustros, and Blanche Amoun; all Christian Lebanese nationalists.[5]
Arcache's literary career was influenced by Alexandria-based Lady Weissenborn, a German author and painter, and the Swiss poet Jacques-René Fiechter, a university professor and director of the Swiss School of Alexandria de (Ecole suisse d'Alexandrie).[6] Arcache was a pentalingual cosmopolite; she traveled extensively in Europe, and visited France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany.[7]
In 1945, she married Charles Kuentz, who headed the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale.[1] She died in France in 1961.[8]
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