Marcelle Auclair was born 11 November 1899 in Montluçon , central France , and died in Paris on 6 June 1984 . She was the daughter of the architect Victor Auclair and his wife Eugénie Rateau . She spent part of her childhood and youth in Chile , where her father settled in 1906 to participate in the country 's reconstruction after the a devastating earthquake . She did her schooling in Santiago ( Chile ) , where she also learned Spanish and English while reading French authors
a devastating earthquake
1906 Valparaíso earthquake
Marcelle Auclair