Marie-Claire Matip Marie-Claire Matip Marie-Claire-Eléonore-Débochère Matip (born 1938) is a Cameroonian writer living in Paris. The daughter of a tribal leader, she was born in Eséka; her father had about fifty children from several different mothers. She was schooled at home at first and then attended school locally. Then, she studied at a college for girls in Douala, where she wrote her novel "Ngonda". In 1956, she won a contest sponsored by "Elle" magazine and Air France that allowed her to travel to France; she returned the following year. In 1958, she studied for her baccalauréat at the Lycée Général Leclerc in
Madame Figaro Madame Figaro Madame Figaro is a French magazine supplement to the Saturday edition of the daily newspaper "Le Figaro", focusing on and catering to women. The first edition was published in 1980. "Madame Figaro" was spearheaded by Robert Hersant, who succeeded Jean Prouvost (creator of the French women's fashion magazine "Marie Claire"). The magazine experienced immediate success, owing to its diverse contents, and the quality of the writing, targeting affluent readers. The first female Editor-in-Chief of the magazine was Marie-Claire Pauwels, daughter of Louis Pauwels. The launch of "Madame Figaro" in 1980 marked a distinct distancing from the feminist movement