Adrienne Segur
{{Short description|French children's book illustrator}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1901|11|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = Athens, Greece
| death_date = {{death date and age|1981|8|11|1901|11|23|df=y}}
| death_place = Paris, France
| nationality = French
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| field = Illustration
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| spouse = Mounir Hafez
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Adrienne Segur (23 November 1901 – 11 August 1981) was a French children's book illustrator.{{cite web|title=The Art of Adrienne Ségur|url=http://spiritoftheages.com/Adrienne%20Segur%20Collection.htm|website=Spirit of the Ages|accessdate=13 March 2018}} Segur's illustrations were made known by the publishing house Flammarion in the 1950s and 1960s{{cite web | url =http://www.artpassions.net/segur/2adrienne_segur_life.html|title=Once upon a time.... Adrienne Segur|publisher=Art Passions| author=Christine Norstrand| accessdate =11 September 2015}} and appeared particularly in The Fairy Tale Book, the English translation of Il Etait Une Fois published in 1958 by Golden Books, Simon and Schuster.
Segur was born in Athens, Greece, in the family of French writer Nicolas Segur. Around 1932 she married the Egyptian poet and thinker :fr:Mounir Hafez. In 1934, The Fairy Tales of Perrault by Adrienne Segur was published. In 1936–1939, Segur was the director of the children's column in Le Figaro where she made all the illustrations.
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Category:French children's book illustrators
Category:French women children's book illustrators
Category:French people of Greek descent
Category:20th-century French women artists
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