Trivia

Mother of Patrick Modiano.

Her maternal grandfather, Louis Bogaerts,was a docker. He was a model for the statue of the dockworker, standing in front of the Antwerp City Hall and made by Constantin Meunier.

Her son was Jean Patrick Modiano ( born 30 July 1945)French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.

In 1942, she moved to Paris and went there to work for a French film production company. It is there that she got to know the hiding Jewish Italian Alberto Modiano, whom she later married. The couple had two sons Patrick (1945) and Rudy (1947-1957).

Theater actress and long time companion of Jean Cau who wrote the foreword to Modiano's first novel.