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The basic story — fascinating and bizarre — has been known to Yeats scholars for some time. Maud Gonne had an illegitimate son in the early 1890s. After the child died, she and her French lover Lucien Millevoye tried to recapture its soul near its coffin in a crypt. As early as 1962, Curtis Bradford noted that Maud Gonne had been rearing a little boy whom she called “Georgette”, who died in September 1891.1 Various details of the story have appeared over the years, though substantial evidence has been scarce.
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© 1992 Deirdre Toomey
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Balliet, C.A. (1992). Georges Gonne and the Soul of the King of Ireland. In: Toomey, D. (eds) Yeats and Women. Yeats Annual. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11928-8_9
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