French writer and poet who was the wife of the famous Peruvian poet César Vallejo. She remained a controversial figure concerning the publication of Vallejo’s works for many years after his death.
In 1925, she began one of the most interesting moments of her life: A fortune-teller read her destiny and announced that a “Prince Charming would come from afar. He has crossed the seas. He is ugly, but is a luminary being. You will always be the first 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 become a leader in world literature: César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza. The 31-year-old poet had come to Paris on 13 July 1923, and was writing in the “Grands journaux Ibero-Americaines,” living on Molière Street, where he would first 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 a few years older and lived in her neighbourhood. This was also the year of his first trip to Russia. The two eventually became lovers, much to the dismay of her mother. Georgette travelled with Vallejo to Spain at the end of December 1930 and returned in January 1932, when she became very ill and required an operation. Back in Paris Vallejo married Georgette Philippart in 1934.
She died in Lima, Peru at dawn on 4 December 1984, aged 76, having fallen into a coma around five o’clock the previous afternoon.
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