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Lesley Blanch was born on 6 June, 1904 in France, is a British author, historian and traveller. Discover Lesley Blanch's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 102 years old?
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Lesley Blanch Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Lesley Blanch worth at the age of 102 years old? Lesley Blanch’s income source is mostly from being a successful author. She is from France. We have estimated Lesley Blanch's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL (6 June 1904 – 7 May 2007) was a British writer, historian and traveller.
She is best known for The Wilder Shores of Love, about Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and explorer Richard), Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty who ended up living in the Syrian desert with a Bedouin chieftain), Aimée du Buc de Rivéry (a French convent woman captured by pirates and sent to the Sultan's harem in Istanbul), and Isabelle Eberhardt (a Swiss linguist who felt most comfortable in boy's clothes and lived among the Arabs in the Sahara).
Blanch attended St. Paul's Girls' School, Hammersmith from 1915 to 1921, went on to study at the Slade School of Art, and began her career as a scenery designer and book illustrator.
Between 1937 and 1944 she was features editor of the UK edition of Vogue.
In April 1945, she married the French novelist-diplomat Romain Gary.
Life in the French diplomatic service took them to the Balkans, Turkey, North Africa, Mexico and the United States.
In the United States, they associated with Aldous Huxley and with Hollywood stars such as Gary Cooper, Sophia Loren and Laurence Olivier.
The best known of her 12 books is The Wilder Shores of Love (1954), about four women who all "followed the beckoning Eastern star."
The book also inspired the American artist Cy Twombly, who named a painting after the novel.
Lesley Blanch and Gary were divorced in 1963.
Blanch continued to travel from her home in Paris, and saw old friends Nancy Mitford, Violet Trefusis, Rebecca West and the Windsors.
She was a close friend of Gerald de Gaury, who gave her insights into middle eastern customs and culture.
The society photographer Cecil Beaton was also a lifelong friend.
Blanch's love of Russia, instilled in her by a friend of her parents whom she simply called The Traveller, is recounted in Journey into the Mind's Eye, Fragments of an Autobiography (1968, reissued 2018) which is part travel book, part love story.
As well as awakening her to sex, he whetted her appetite with exotic tales of Siberia and Central Asia.
The Traveller was possibly identified as Theodore Komisarjevsky.
Her trip to Iran and meeting Empress Farah Pahlavi in April 1975 resulted in a biography of the empress named "Farah, Shahbanou of Iran" on 1978.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Lesley Blanch was appointed MBE in 2001, and in 2004 the French government awarded her the medal of Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
She celebrated her 100th birthday in 2004.
She died just one month shy of 103.
Lesley Blanch considered her best book to be The Sabres of Paradise (the biography of Imam Shamyl and history of Tsarist Russian rule in early 19th century Georgia and the Caucasus).
