Abstract EN:

Jehan d'ivray belongs to an unrecognized authors category: those who spnt a long time in egypt and had their litterary career in the same place. When she was sixteen years old, jehan d7ivray got maried with an egyptian man, and had to spent forty years of her life in egypt; there she took an interest in evrything concerning this country: its history, its morals, its customs, and, in particular, the egyptian woman's situation during the xixth and xxth centries. Thus, she wrote many interesting books that recall her memories of egypt and of the environment she had.