Henriette Arasse

Henriette Arasse (14th arrondissement, 25 February 1912 – 17th arrondissement, 29 January 2003) was a French art critic and teacher. She was also mother of the art historian, Daniel Arasse.

Henriette Arasse
Born	Henriette Elizabeth Lavergne (1912-02-25)25 February 1912 14th arrondissement, Paris, France
Died	29 January 2003(2003-01-29) (aged 90) 17th arrondissement, Paris, France
Nationality	French
Education	École normale supérieure
Occupations	Art critic teacher
Spouse	Raymond Arasse ​ ​ (m. 1938; died 1990)​
Children	Daniel Arasse

Biography

Daughter of Albert Lavergne, a soldier, Henriette Lavergne began an academic career. In 1934, she was accepted into the École normale supérieure as part of the literary promotion.^[1] She was one of the forty-one graduates of the École Normale Supérieure who passed the exam before it became reserved for men in 1940.^[2] In 1938, she was admitted to the agrégation de lettres, the nineteenth,^[3] and is appointed teacher in literary preparatory classes at the Lycée Molière alongside Suzanne Rey.^[4]

In November 1938, she married Raymond Arasse^[5] in Algiers. Born in 1912 in Tours,^[6] he was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure as part of the literary promotion in 1933^[7] and was admitted to the agrégation de lettres in 1936, the fifth.^[3] From their union was born Daniel Arasse, French art historian.^[8]

Committed to the Franco-Ancienne, she was an independent candidate for the Secondary Education Council in 1958.^[9] Auditioned in 1964 by the higher education study commission, she recalled her attachment to Latin, which she taught.

She died on January 29, 2003.^[10]

Publications

• Théophile Gautier art critic, Algiers, National Museum of Fine Arts, 1957 (BnF 41660375)
• Françoise Escoffier, Luis Marsans illustrates Proust, Revue des Deux Mondes, November 1982, p. 506-511