A Daughter of Farmers

Marthe Gautier was born on Sept. 10, 1925, in the Île-de-France region, not far from Paris. Her parents were farmers, and she was the fifth of seven children.

In 1942, when she was 17, Marthe followed her elder sister, Paulette, to study at th

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