Constance Debré

Constance Debré born in 1972 is a French lawyer and novelist Constance Debrés parents were journalist François Debré 19422020 and former model Maylis Ybarnégaray 19421988 the judge and politician JeanLouis Debré is her uncle Her grandparents included Michel Debré 19121996 former Prime Minister under General de Gaulle and Jean Ybarnégaray 18831956 a minister of the Vichy regime and resistance fighter She was 16 when her mother died She studied at Lycée HenriIV then law at PanthéonAssas University She is also a graduate of class 99 E99 of the ESSEC Business School She married in 1993 and had a son in 2008 Working as a defence lawyer she accompanied her father in 2011 when he was charged in an inquiry into fictitious jobs at the town hall of Paris In 2013 she was elected second secretary of the Conference of Lawyers of the Paris Bar In 2015 she left her husband and her job to live with a woman and pursue a fulltime career as a writer In 2018 she won the Prix La Coupole for her autobiographical novel Play Boy which describes the aftermath of this fateful decision the custody battle over her son and its associated pressures to conform to a bourgeois family model with a samesex partner It formed the first book in a trilogy Her 2020 novel Love Me Tender was adapted by filmmaker Anna Cazenave Cambet into the 2025 film Love Me Tender Source Article Constance Debré from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA