Annie Blanche Marie Soisbault de Montaigu (born 18 June 1934 in Paris - died 18 September 2012 in Paris) was a French tennis player and motorsports driver.[1]
Soisbault's early success came in tennis and she reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon 1952 Jr. Tournament,[2] however it did not pay as well as racing did in the 1950s. By the time she was in her early 20s, Soisbault had purchased her first two cars: a Delahaye Grand Sport and a Triumph TR3. In that same year she was a backup driver in the 1956 Monte Carlo Rally.[3] She was considered one of the finest women racers in the 1950s and 60s.[4] She won the 1963 Tour Auto Ladies' Cup and in 1966, she was the first woman who averaged more than 100 km/h driving a Porsche 906 at Mont Ventoux.[2] [5]
She is buried in Paris at Père Lachaise.