Marie Chaix has written memoirs and a book about the singer Barbara.
14 Facts About Marie Chaix
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Marie Chaix's memoirs are about her mother and father as well as her life.
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Marie Chaix's mother was named Alice and she had three siblings, including singer Anne Sylvestre.
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Marie Chaix only knew that her father had something to do with politics as a child, but she was unaware that he was the right-hand man of fascist leader Jacques Doriot.
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Marie Chaix thought of her childhood as being happy and normal despite her oldest brother going missing in action in Germany and her father being imprisoned from 1946 to 1954.
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Marie Chaix's father died in 1963 without his actions ever being discussed within his family.
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When she was 26 years old, Marie Chaix became aware of her father's activities when she was given his notebooks to read by her mother, who asked Marie Chaix to not tell anyone about its contents.
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Marie Chaix was the personal secretary of singer Barbara, who happened to be Jewish, and they toured through France, Europe, and Canada.
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In 1969 Marie Chaix became an advertising executive and she began writing a memoir about her father, titled The Laurels of Lake Constance, during that time.
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The Laurels of Lake Constance is Marie Chaix's first book and it was a bestseller, later winning the Prix Maison de la Presse in 1974.
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Marie Chaix's next book was a memoir about her mother titled Silences, or a Woman's Life.
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One of Marie Chaix's novels was rejected by Editions du Seuil and the publisher did not allow her to rewrite it because they believed that she could only write autobiographies.
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Marie Chaix married journalist Jean-Francois Chaix in 1968 and they had a child named Emilie in 1969.
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Marie Chaix lived in Key West for half of the year with her husband Harry Mathews and the rest of the year in either Lans-en-Vercors or Paris which is where her daughters lived, along with Emilie's son.