 In it she writes about having to leave her sister, Huguette, back in Paris, she asks about their other friends, Benjamin Péret and Remedios Varo, and says that they are living on a tiny fisherman's shack "of great impoverished beauty" on the beach of Martigues.They had a daughter, named after the dawn, but separated in 1943.She found herself often overshadowed by her male counterpart.