Background
Groult, the daughter of André Groult and Nicole Poiret, sister of Paul Poiret and herself a fashion designer, was raised in the Parisian upper class.
Groult, the daughter of André Groult and Nicole Poiret, sister of Paul Poiret and herself a fashion designer, was raised in the Parisian upper class.
After her studies in literature ended in 1953, she worked as a journalist for television Her novel Les vaisseaux du cœur was filmed by Andrew Birkin in 1992 as Salt on Our Skin. Groult has been married four times.
Her first husband, Blaise Landon, whom she married in 1943, died the following year.
The couple had one daughter, Constance. In April 2010, she became Commander of the Légion d"honneur.
Groult was the subject of several documentary films. Anne Lefant devoted the documentary Une chambre à elle: Benoîte Groult ou comment la liberté vint aux femmes to Groult, who was 86 years old at the time.
lieutenant includes testimonies of Josyane Savigneau, Paul Guimard and Yvette Roudy and was published in 2006 by Hors Champ Productions.
In 2008 the documentary Benoîte Groult, le temps d"apprendre à vivre, written by Martie Mitterand and directed by Jean-Baptiste Martin, aired on France 5 as a part of the series Empreintes. In 2013 Grasset published a graphic novel based on the life of Groult, called Ainsi soit Benoîte Groult, by the hand of Catel.
Because Groult is a feminist, her novels often deal with topics such as the history of feminism, the discrimination of women and misogyny.
