Painter active in France.

Borni in 1908. Daughter of the painter, designer and communist politician Francis Jourdain, and of the fashion designer and dressmaker Agathe Laurencin. She had a brother, the architect Frantz-Philippe Jourdain. While at school in Paris, she attended the Ateliers d'Art Sacré run by Maurice Denis and George Desvallières, where she met the painter Hernando Viñes Soto. They were married in 1931 and had a daughter, Nina, musicologist. Her father-in-law, José Viñes, invited Manuel de Falla to the wedding. In January 1928, she made her debut as a painter at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, alongside the artists Pierre Marseille and Alexandre Magaram, and in 1931 she exhibited with Picart Le Doux, Toledo Piza and Madeleine Luka. She also participated in the Parisian Salon d'Automne in October 1930, where she presented a self-portrait. In December 1931 she and two other artists, Henriette Deloras and Marie-Louise Trabucco, were nominated for admission to the salon society. She was finally accepted, joining the group formed by fellow artists Jean-Eugène Bersier, Odette Bourgain, Pierre Boucherle, Abel Gerbaud, Alexis Gritchenko and Van Parys. She exhibited a canvas titled "La moustiquaire verte" with this association in Paris in October 1932. In March 1934, she participated in a group show that included other young artists like André Planson, Antoine Chartier, Georges Pacouil, Maurice Poncelet, Adrien Holy, Monique Jörgensen and Ginette Signac.

Lulu Jourdain and her husband were friends with the Spanish librarian Juan Vicéns, inspector of public municipal libraries and of the Misiones Pedagógicas libraries, with whom they corresponded between 1933 and 1936. This friendship dated back to their the early Paris years, when they encountered old acquaintances from the Residencia de Estudiantes like Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. In May 1936, she accompanied her husband to a tribute in Madrid organised by the Buñuel brothers, Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti, María Teresa León, Alberto Sánchez, Juan Vicéns, and others. Familiar faces from the world of music and literature were also present, such as Adolfo Salazar, Pilar Bayona, Gustavo Durán, Miguel Hernández and Pablo Neruda.

She wrote an article titled "La Femme, l'enfant, le foyer" (1937) for the Parisian magazine "Regards", which was reprinted on 18 September of that same year in the communist daily "Le Cri des travailleurs des A.M."; in it she defended the bravery and dedication of the Spanish militia women who were fighting for the Republican cause. She also published "La fête des midinettes" (1935) and "La France se dépeuple: pourquoi?" (1936). Jourdain passed away in 1998.