explore. Jeanne’s life stretched across three separate centuries, allowing her to witness technological, cultural, and political transformations that reshaped the world in ways few people could ever imagine.
She was born during a period marked by a largely pre-industrial France, when electricity was still a novelty and the nation was recovering from the Franco-Prussian War. By the time she reached the end of her life in 1997, the globe had endured two world wars, entered the space age, connected through telephones and computers, and taken its first steps into the
