Georgette Vallejo

Georgette Marie Philippart Travers (Paris, 7 January

1908 - Lima, 1984), French writer and poet. She was
the wife of the Peruvian poet Csar Vallejo of interna-
tional fame, considered by Mario Benedetti to be a hu-
man paradigm, while the American poet-monk Thomas
Merton points out that the project for the translation of
his poetry is of an urgent and enormous importance for
the entire human race.
1 Biography
Georgette Marie Philippart Travers, was born in Paris on
7 January 1908. She married Ben. Her parents were
Alexandre Jean Baptiste Philippart and Marie Travers.
When Georgette was six years old, her father died ghting
o the German Army in the Battle of the Marne World
War I on 7 September 1914. Before his passing, he sent
a letter home, where he recognized Georgette Marie as
his daughter.
Because of the war, she was sent to Brittany where she
completed her elementary education in Vitr, a lovely city
of Castles and Fortresses, termed the most lovely corner
of France. She continues her secondary education in the
Sevign School in Vitr, and graduated in 1922. Upon the
completion of her studies, she moved to Pars to work in
the seamstress shop with her mother.
In 1925, she began one of the most interesting moments
of her life: A fortune-teller read her destiny and an-
nounced that a Prince Charming would come from afar.
He has crossed the seas. He is ugly, but is a luminary be-
ing. You will always be the rst person on his mind.. The
famous and long-awaited Prince Charming was no one
less than a man, who with the passage of time would be-
come a leader in world literature: Csar Abraham Vallejo
Mendoza. The 31-year-old poet had come to Paris on
13 July 1923, and was writing in the Grands journaux
Ibero-Americaine, living on Molire Street, where he
would rst see Georgette from a window in the front of
his room. Although she was only 17, she made a huge
impression on him.
In 1927 when Cesar Vallejo eventually talked to her he
was much older and lived in her neighborhood. This was
also the year of his rst trip to Russia. The two eventu-
ally became lovers, much to the dismay of her mother.
Georgette traveled with Vallejo to Spain the end of De-
cember 1930 and returned in January 1932, when she be-
came very ill and required an operation. Back in Paris
Vallejo married Georgette Philippart in 1934. She re-
mained a controversial gure concerning the publication
of Vallejos works for many years after his death.
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