Alice Parizeau wurde am 25 Juli 1927 in Luniniec, Brest, Poland (now Bielorussia) geboren. Sie war mit Jacques Parizeau verheiratet. Sie starb am 30 September 1990 in Kanada.
Criminologist, journalist and author., her mother was a concert pianist and her father an industrialist. Résistante, she was interned at Bergen-Belsen and was decorated after WWII for her actions.