PARIS — Edmonde Charles-Roux, a French writer who was among the founding editors of Elle magazine and a longtime editor of Vogue before turning to literature, has died. She was 95.

The Academie Goncourt, whose prize she won with her novel “To Forget Palermo,” said she died late Wednesday in her hometown of Marseille.

The daughter of a diplomat who spent most of her childhood outside France, Charles-Roux obtained a nursing degree in 1939 when World War II broke out. She was wounded in a bombing in 1940 and ultimately was honored by the French Foreign Legion.

At the war’s end, she worked for the newly founded Elle, before ultimately becoming chief editor of Vogue until 1966, when her first novel was published.