Looking out over the sea of faces that glowed in the dim light from the stage she felt as if Paris itself was laid out before her. She simply couldn’t leave the hall”.Īs the applause washed over her, Curie responded with shy dips of the head. Since she was a child she had played the piano like a dream, enough to secure recital and concert bookings throughout Europe that drew appreciative crowds and glowing reviews.īeethoven led to a selection of Chopin before, according to the correspondent from the Tatler, “in Schumann’s Scènes d’Enfants she absolutely wiped the floor with us and then, as a finish, showed us what she could do with Liszt. The daughter of double-Nobel Prize winning scientist Marie Curie she had, unlike her sister Irène, decided against a life in the laboratory to pursue an artistic calling. Ève Curie was 21 years old and already renowned throughout the city and beyond for her beauty, her style, her musical talent and her name. She was perfectly still for a moment, lifted her hands onto the keys and picked out the opening notes of Beethoven’s 32 Variations in C Minor. A young woman with bobbed black hair walked on to the stage, laid one hand on top of the piano, dipped her head self-consciously, swished the hem of her black dress forward and sat down on the piano stool. When the doors had closed and everyone was seated, the lights dimmed and applause drowned out the hubbub of conversation. She worked as a journalist, and wrote her mother's biography Madame Curie and a book of war reportage, Journey Among Warriors.It was a cold evening in Paris on February 12, 1926, when the cream of city society made their way to the Salle des Agriculteurs on Rue d’Athènes, all cloche hats, fox furs, buttonhole carnations and clouded breath. Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize.

Her sister was Irène Joliot-Curie and her brother-in-law Frédéric Joliot-Curie. She was the younger daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie. Ève Denise Curie Labouisse ( French pronunciation: Decem– October 22, 2007) was a French and American writer, journalist and pianist. Henry Richardson Labouisse (1954–1987 widowed)

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