Author, friend from childhood of Jean Cocteau , she is a descendant by her mother from the marquis de Sade. Her mother Marie-Thérèse de Chevigné, was one of the basis of the duchesse de Guermantes in Marcel Proust's Recherche.
She and her husband were important philanthropists for arts and culture in Paris and in the South of France. They had built in Hyères a modernist villa.