Moufida Bourguiba

Moufida Bourguiba
Moufida Bourguiba
	مفيدة بورقيبة
First Lady of Tunisia
	In office; 25 July 1957 – 21 July 1961
President	Habib Bourguiba
Preceded by	Position created; (Lalla Jeneïna Beya as Queen consort of Tunisia)
Succeeded by	Wassila Bourguiba
Personal details
Born	Mathilde Lorrain; January 24, 1890; Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France
Died	November 15, 1976 (aged 86); Monastir, Tunisia
Spouse(s)	Colonel le Fras (died 1918); Habib Bourguiba (m. 1927; div. 1961);
Children	Habib Bourguiba, Jr.

Moufida Bourguiba (Arabic: مفيدة بورقيبة‎; née Mathilde Lorrain; 24 January 1890 – 15 November 1976) was the first wife of the President of Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba, and the inaugural First Lady of Tunisia from 1957 to 1961.

Biography

Moufida, Habib and Habib Jr. in 1956.

Habib and Moufida Bourguiba on a visit to the White House in 1961 with John and Jacqueline Kennedy.

Mathilde Lorrain was born in France in 1890 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne. She married a French officer, Colonel le Fras who was killed at the very end of the First World War on 11 November 1918. She met Habib Bourguiba in 1925 whilst he was studying law at the University of Paris. Their only son, also Habib, was born in April 1927 and they married in August 1927.

After independence she converted to Islam and took the name "Moufida" on 25 October 1958. Her husband awarded her with a number of honours but she is claimed to have said that she only did things for him and his country.

The couple divorced in 1961. She died in Monastir in 1976. Her husband remarried Wassila Ben Ammar.

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Honorary titles
Preceded by Lalla Jeneïna Beya (as Queen consort of Tunisia)	First Lady of Tunisia 1957–1961	Succeeded by Wassila Bourguiba

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