Aline Mayrisch De Sainthubert

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Luxembourgian women's rights campaigner, socialite, and philanthropist, who established many non-governmental organisations, and was President of the Luxembourg Red Cross. On 15 September 1894, she married industrialist Émile Mayrisch who would become President of the steel giant Arbed. They had two children. Aline Mayrisch had a great interest in arts and literature, and saw herself as a mediator between the German and French cultural worlds. From 1898, she published articles on German painters and literary criticisms, amongst others on L'Immoraliste by André Gide, in the Belgian avant-gardist review L'Art moderne. She maintained friendships and correspondences with numerous writers and intellectuals, such as André Gide, Jean Schlumberger, Jacques Rivière, Henri Michaux, Marie and Théo van Rysselberghe, Marie Delcourt, Alexis Curvers, Annette Kolb, Gertrude Eysoldt, Ernst Robert Curtius and Bernhard Groethuysen. In 1914, she accompanied André Gide and Henri Ghéon to Turkey and in 1927, she travelled to the Gironde and the Limousin with Ernst Robert Curtius. She and her husband moved to Colpach in 1920, and after the war they received many German and French intellectuals here under the name of Cercle de Colpach, such as Paul Claudel, Jean Guéhenno, Karl Jaspers, and Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi. She died on 20 January 1947, aged 72, in Cabris, France. Link to Wikipedia biography