Robert did not smile, "André Gide was thirteen when he fell in love with his cousin Madeleine. He married her when he was twenty five but their marriage was never consummated."
"No children for him to worry about."
"Gide did have children, though - a daughter whom he adopted after his wife died."
"So he wanted to have children all along?"
"Gide was the father."
"You just said he was gay."
"Madeleine never knew about the girl - or about her husband's affair."
"Affair?"
"With a beautiful, young woman."
"Then Gide wasn't gay?"
"Elisabeth Van Rysselberghe - she'd been the mistress of Rupert Brooke, the war poet."


"Saint Nazaire"