Jehan d' Ivray

Born Jeanne Puech in Bessèges, France, on April 17, 1861, she wrote as Jehan d'Ivray and later became known as Madame Jeanne Fahmy Bey. French reference sources describe her as an author whose work focused especially on Egypt and on women's lives.

She spent much of her life connected to Egypt, and that experience shaped the subjects she returned to in her books. Her writing is generally noted for blending literary storytelling with social observation, which helped make her a distinctive French voice on Egyptian settings and women's experiences.

Jehan d'Ivray died in Vichy on September 9, 1940. Though not widely known today, she remains of interest for readers drawn to French literature, cross-cultural writing, and early twentieth-century perspectives on Egypt.