![]() However, Françoise persevered as a solitary child and skipped 2 grades of school. When she was 9, her mother committed suicide, likely because she had terminal cancer, a fact never revealed to Françoise – a major blow. ![]() It had a one room schoolhouse (the teacher was also the mayor), and one phone, at the bar. Because of these health concerns, her parents sent her to live with a Polish farming family in the tiny village of Villers-Vermont in Picardy at age 6. Called “microbe,” she and her siblings had serious health problems due to the marginal nutrition and poor hygiene. Throughout her life, and against considerable adversity, she identified her own path to independence and fulfillment, with remarkable rationality and calmness.īorn in the slums of Paris (Cité Lesage-Bullourde) just after the conclusion of World War II, where her parents and siblings had been subjected to the terror of the Nazis and the collaborationist Vichy police, she was an obviously intelligent but sickly child. SHARON - Françoise Rubinsztein Friedlaender, an early woman pioneer in business and science, died suddenly on Octoin Sharon Hospital.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |