At the time, though, she was already married - to his wife's brother. The woman he lusted after would become Lucien's second wife and Philippe's mother. At that farmhouse, tucked away in a rustic area of southern France and seemingly a million miles from the war and its death camps, Lucien consummated his desire for a beautiful woman who had for years driven him wild with lust - even as his wife and child were being taken to their deaths. There, he and some relatives holed up in a farm house.īut the story gets more complicated as the shameful secrets multiply. Lucien, however, managed to escape from German occupation in Paris to "Free France". But the boy and his mother were deported to Auschwitz during the war and were gassed. What is more, Lucien and his first wife had had a son, Michel. The cousin revealed that Philippe's father, Lucien, had been married to another woman before the war. When I found out about Michel's existence, it was almost a relief, a confirmation of what I had always known." I had always been told I was an only child, but I always had a sense that I had a brother. "I found out about that when I was 15 from a cousin who inadvertently told me. The first secret Philippe's parents had hidden from him was the fact that he had a half-brother.
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