Georgette Leblanc was born into a cultured French family and was the sister of novelist Maurice Leblanc. After first working as an actress, she studied music and made her professional opera debut in 1893 at the Opera Comique in Paris as Françoise in "L’Attaque du moulin." A friend of Margaret Anderson and Jean Cocteau, Georgette Leblanc also was the longtime lover of playwright Maurice Maeterlinck. She wrote children’s books and several volumes of autobiography including "La Machine à Courage" (1947).
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