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Fanny Mouchet

<p>Fanny Mouchet (1923-2011) is the mother of the filmmaker Louis Mouchet and the wife of the poet Charles Mouchet (1920-1979), for whom she illustrated most of his publications.</p><p>In addition to an apprenticeship as a seamstress, she attended evening classes at the Academy of Fine Arts from which she graduated.</p><p>She then became a teacher of young children.</p><p>The last part of her life was devoted to the Geneva Writers' Society of which she was an essential pillar.</p>