Huguette was born in Algeria, but her family subsequently fled to Morocco to escape persecution by the fascist Vichy regime. She was a teacher in Morocco, Paris and Manchester. Subsequently she was a bilingual secretary at a pharmaceutical company and then PA to a Professor at Manchester University. 

She is devoted to French popular songs and gives an annual concert at the Mumford Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University. She writes memoirs of the vanished world of Jewish North Africa.