Alice Becker-Ho
Alice Becker-Ho (also Alice Debord) (August 6, 1941 – ), is the author of Les Princes du Jargon (Paris: Gillimard, 1993), as well as numerous works of poetry.
Life
Becker-Ho was born in Shangh, her mother Chinese, her father, originally from Alsace-Lorraine, a territory under dispute between France and Germany until the end of WWI, claimed French citizenship. In 1947 he moved his family to France.
In 1963 Becker-Ho later became involved in the Situationist International. She began what would be a long lasting relationship with Guy Debord, they married August 5, 1972. Together they published The Game of War in 1987. She was his partner until his death in 1994.
Works
Becker-Ho has published numerous works of poetry in French: D'azure au triangle vide de sable (Cognac: Le Temps qu'il fait, 2000); Paroles de Gitans (Paris: Albin Michel, 2000); Au Pays du sommeil paradoxal (Cognac: Le Temps qu'il fait, 2000). She has written a rigerous account of the various slang speech in Western Europe in her works Les Princes du Jargon (Paris: Gillimard, 1993), and L’Essence du Jargon. She also authored Au Pays du Sommeil Paradoxal (In Slumberpuzzleland).
After Debord's death Becker-Ho has taken up assembling and publishing his letters.