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| | Marie Chaix - "The Memoir" - 2000 Key West Literary Seminar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | The youngest by far of a devoted family, with a 7 year old sister, brothers of 13 and 15, a beloved mother, and Juliette, her “second mother,” Marie knew nothing of the disasters taking place around her. |
 | | Often away from home, her father was “involved in politics,” in fact he was the right-hand man of Jacques Doriot, leader of a fascist party and collaborationist. |
 | | Her memories are those of a happy childhood and a normal adolescence, even if her family was sorely tried: her eldest brother disappeared in a bombardment in Germany; her father was arrested in 1946 and sent to prison until 1954. |
| www.keywestliteraryseminar.org /memoir/bios/chaix.htm (450 words) |
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