Surprisingly dedicated to the Fortean cause.
Francoise Delisle was born Francoise Lafitte in Maubeuge, France, near the Belgian border, in 1886. Her family was middle-class prosperous, with artistic inclinations, though in time her father lost the family fortune. Restless and Romantic, committed to progressive causes, she left her newly-impoverished family for London, to teach French. She became involved with women’s rights groups and socialism—though her animating cause was pacifism—and through this activity met John Collier, an American syndicalist (with a wife back in the States.) She became pregnant, and also disillusioned with Collier, leaving him to raise her son by herself. She thought Collier too demanding a lover.
Francoise Delisle was born Francoise Lafitte in Maubeuge, France, near the Belgian border, in 1886. Her family was middle-class prosperous, with artistic inclinations, though in time her father lost the family fortune. Restless and Romantic, committed to progressive causes, she left her newly-impoverished family for London, to teach French. She became involved with women’s rights groups and socialism—though her animating cause was pacifism—and through this activity met John Collier, an American syndicalist (with a wife back in the States.) She became pregnant, and also disillusioned with Collier, leaving him to raise her son by herself. She thought Collier too demanding a lover.