![]() ![]() ![]() “Miette always wore a sailor's blouse and a pleated skirt of striped twill. ![]() ![]() Skiing in winter, the lake in summer, and books all year round soon turn them into inseparable friends. Ella discovers the lake and meets Hermine (“Miette”) de Saussure, the daughter of a French naval officer. Even as a child, Ella adores reading maps and adventure books.ġ913: Her parents move to the lakeside village of Creux-de-Genthod, some 7 kms from Geneva. Her mother, an independent Danish woman fond of sports, takes her each Sunday to the mountains to ski, which at that time was looked on as an eccentricity of the English. Her father, a broad-minded and knowledgeable man, is a fur trader. "I am glad that I left home when I was young and followed the wake of the subtle Ulysses, glad to have lived the sea and the desert instead of helping father to air the silky softness of the deep sealskins, to value the bunches of ruffle-tailed silver foxes or by trying on the latest modèles de Paris - glad I accomplished most of what I set out to do: once and for all I know how short-lived the joys of vanity are." - Ella Maillart, The Cruel Way Biography:ġ903 February 20, birth of Ella Maillart in Geneva. ![]()
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