Editing Simone Beck (section)

==Early life==
Beck was born on 7 July 1904, in Tocqueville-en-Caux, near [[Dieppe]] in [[Normandy]]. Her family was rich because they had a business in production of [[Bénédictine]] liqueur.<ref name="NYTobit"/> When she was little, she liked helping her family cook to prepare desserts or entire meals. 

In 1923, at her parents' urging to marry, she wed Jacques Jarlaud. After surviving a car crash in 1928, she worked for four years bookbinding<ref>{{Cite web |title=The (Other) French Chef {{!}} Hazlitt |url=https://hazlitt.net/longreads/other-french-chef |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=hazlitt.net |language=en}}</ref> and being a sales representative, where she met her second husband. In 1933, at the end of her marriage with Jacques Jarlaud, she applied to the [[Le Cordon Bleu]] school in Paris. 

In 1936, Beck met Jean Victor Fischbacher. After marrying him in 1937, she kept her maiden name as a [[pen name]] and professionally, but used her husband's name socially.<ref name="harvard.edu">{{cite web |url= https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/5237 | title=  Papers of Simone Beck, 1920-1993  | website=Harvard Library }}</ref>