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“... up like a rocket: not loaded with scientific research equipment: just a celebratory feu de joie. Jean MacGibbon manages to celebrate only at the very end of her memoir. It’s her 70th birthday and there are nine grandchildren round the table. Her journey goes in the opposite direction from the Baron’s, being an expedition into the interior. She is ...”

“... is more than enough, and it is a relief when emancipation comes with the appearance of the painter Jean Varda, who whispers: ‘On the thirteenth you will be mine.’ Not for long, however. An affair with Alice Paalen, wife of a Surrealist artist, follows. ‘She leans over me as into a pool, tender, her hair falling, her eyes eternally smiling ... My eyes are ...”