Marie-Claire de Fleix Marie-Claire de Fleix Marie-Claire de Fleix née "de Bauffremont" (1618–1680) was a French courtier. She served as "Première dame d'honneur" to the queen dowager of France, Anne of Austria, from 1643 until 1666. She was the daughter of Henri de Bauffremont, marquise de Senecey, and Marie-Catherine de Senecey, and married to Jean Baptiste Gaston de Foix, comte de Fleix (1617–1646), in 1637. Her mother was a favorite of queen Anne who had been banished from court by Cardinal Richelieu, and when queen Anne became regent in 1643, she appointed Marie-Catherine de Senecey royal governess and her daughter to the office
Marie-Claire Matip ( known as Sister Hewan) and her youngest daughter Elga. Her autobiographical novel "Ngonda", published in 1958, is one of the first French-language texts to be published by an African woman. 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