Born in
Ennevelin on 4 July 1928, Brice completed her doctoral thesis under the supervision of
Dorothée Le Maître. She began her professional career at the
Université catholique de Lille, where she was a professor. She also conducted research at the
French National Centre for Scientific Research. In 1971 and from 1995 to 1996, she was president of the , of which she was also honorary president from 2023 to 2025. Brice specialized in the study of
Devonian brachiopods, conducting field research in the Canadian Arctic and the
Boulonnais. She edited a monography covering Devonian life in the Boulonnais region. She described new brachiopod
genera:
Dichospirifer,
Enchondrospirifer,
Eobrachythyris,
Eodmitria, and
Ellesmererhynchia. A number of species were named after her, including
Dendropora briceae and
Stenorhynchia briceae. Brice died in
Villeneuve-d'Ascq on 7 February 2025, at the age of 96. ==Publications==