Eugénie Foa

Who was Eugénie Foa?

Eugénie Foa was a French writer.

Eugénie Foa was by descent a Sephardi Jewess, her mother being a member of the Gradis family, and both parents being members of the Bordeaux Jewish community. On the death of her father in 1826, the family moved to Paris. Eugenie married young, but after leaving her husband Joseph Foa shortly after their wedding, she began to support herself by writing, at times using the nom de plume "Maria Fitzclarence." Foa's books include:

⁕Le kidouschim

⁕La Juive: histoire des temps de la régence

⁕Les Mémoirés d'un polichinelle

⁕Le petit Robinson de Paris

⁕Le vieux Paris

Her sister, Leonie, was the wife of composer Fromental Halévy and she is a cousin of Olinde Rodrigues.