Agnès Humbert (12 October 1894 – 19 September 1963) was an art historian, ethnographer and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. She has become well known through the publication of a translation of the diary of her experiences during the War in France and in German prisons at the time of the Nazi occupation.
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Biography
Early life
Agnès Dorothée Humbert, known as Agnès Humbert, was born on 12 October 1894 in Dieppe, France, daughter of French senator Charles Humbert and English writer Mabel Wells Annie Rooke (granddaughter of English newspaper editor Joseph Drew).
She spent her childhood in Paris, where she studied painting and design. She was a pupil of Maurice Denis alongside Georges Hanna Sabbagh, whom she married in January 1916. She then continued to paint, using the pseudonym Agnès Sabbert, or Agnès Sabert. She also worked as an illustrator; she was the illustrator of the 1928 edition of Albert Samain's Au jardin de l'infante. She had two sons with Sabbagh: Jean Sabbagh, a naval officer and advisor to General Charles de Gaulle, and television director and producer Pierre Sabbagh. Agnès and Georges divorced in 1934.