Background
Her daughter was born the day the Germans invaded Belgium in May 1940.
Her daughter was born the day the Germans invaded Belgium in May 1940.
Madeleine Bourdouxhe moved to Paris in 1914 with her parents, where she lived for the duration of World War I. After returning to Brussels, she studied philosophy.
The marriage lasted until his death in 1974. After the war, she lived regularly in Paris and had contact with writers such as Simone de Beauvoir Raymond Queneau and Jean-Paul Sartre, and also with painters such as René Magritte and Paul Delvaux. Her last novel, A la Recherche de Marie, was published in 1943.
In the mid-1980s, however, Madeleine Bourdouxhe was rediscovered by the feminists, resulting in new editions and translations.