Griselidis Réal

Swiss artist, activist and author, born August 11th, 1929 in Lausanne and died May 31st, 2005 in Genève. She was born in Switzerland but spent her childhood in Alexandria, Egypt. She studied at an art school in Zurich. In the early 1960s she went to Germany, where she started to work as prostitute. She settled to France and became an important activist for prostitution in France.