List of Famous people with last name Peignot

Colette Peignot

First Name Colette

Last Name Peignot

Born on October 8, 1903

Died on November 7, 1938 (aged 35)

Born in France, Île-de-France

Colette Peignot was a French author who is most known by the pseudonym Laure, but also wrote under the name Claude Araxe.

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Jérôme Peignot

First Name Jérôme

Last Name Peignot

Born on June 10, 1926 (age 100)

Born in France, Île-de-France

Jérôme Peignot is a French novelist, poet, pamphleteer, and an expert in typography. The author of some thirty books, he was awarded the Prix Sainte-Beuve, took part in publishing the writings of Laure, as well as a major anthology on "Typoésie". He is the grandson of Georges Peignot, typographer and director of the foundry G. Peignot et Fils. He is also known for having launched the concept of acousmatic sound in the 1960s.

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