Used book – Marriage with Life, Madeleine Chapsal

"I was sixteen, with early-stage tuberculosis, when war suddenly broke out. It was cold in Paris, food was scarce, and worried about my health, my mother sent me to the mountains to join my paternal aunt, who had married a Jew and taken refuge in Megève with her children. Feeling threatened, many others were hiding there, including the Servan-Schreibers, under the name of Servan. In Haute-Savoie, a zone not yet occupied, people felt relatively protected. Skiing, cycling, flirting, dancing [...]. It was while dancing that I met a young man who was leaving to join de Gaulle: Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, eighteen years old. But the situation worsened: roundups, denunciations, arrests, we had to flee, I returned to Paris. It was after the Liberation battles that I coincidentally met the young man I had encountered in Megève; he was in his air force lieutenant's uniform [...]. I was cured, he was alive, the death knell had not sounded for us, we wanted to get married. A wedding with life, a wedding with love..." M. C.