Background
Ethnicity:
Maurice was born into an ancient Alsatian Jewish family.
Maurice Rheims was born on January 4, 1910 in Versailles, in the family of General Leon and Jeanne (Levy) Rheims.
Ethnicity:
Maurice was born into an ancient Alsatian Jewish family.
Maurice Rheims was born on January 4, 1910 in Versailles, in the family of General Leon and Jeanne (Levy) Rheims.
Maurice studied at the Parisian high school Janson-de-Sailly, before entering the Ecole du Louvre. Maurice Rheims was also a graduate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne).
During the war of 1939-1945, Maurice was an officer of the Fifth Genius; then he became second in command of the first group of paratrooper commandos in Algeria.
Quotes from others about the person
"Second-hand junk dealer in the ephemeral!" was what the critic Renaud Matignon called Maurice Rheims.
Married in first marriage in 1935 to Jeannine Malvy, he married Rose-Marie Kohn in 1948 and then in third marriage in 1951 Lili Krahmer, which he divorced in 1980.
Maurice is the father of the photographer Bettina Rheims and the comedienne-writer Nathalie Rheims. His son Louis died of cancer at the age of 33 in 1988.