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