Discover the sister of Élise
Before coming to settle in Trucy-sur-Yonne in 1919, the Bisschop family lived in Villemomble, in the Paris region. Since their marriage in 1912, René and Marie Bisschop have lived in the family home of Laurent and Marie-Augustine Bisschop.
After six years of marriage, in the middle of the 1914-1918 war, Marie gave birth to a little girl named Suzanne. Like a light in the murderous war, it was born on the day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, August 15, 1917. The young child died in infancy, the context of death is not yet identified.
Élise, born on the day of Pentecost in 1925, wore the middle name of her late sister, the two girls remained united by the patronage of Saint Suzanne.
Élise will transcend the visible absence of Suzanne into a universal brotherly love. Élise loved her neighbor and, she considered her close friends as so many little sisters. In Élise's letters to her good friends, the qualifiers abound: my dear little sister , my dear little sisters , my beloved sister , my little sister friend , ... Some sentences are d 'a great tenderness: I kiss you very affectionately, like a little sister , I love you like my little sister , Goodbye, my dear little sister, be close to me these days as I am close to you, it helps me so much to think of you , I kiss you like a much loved little sister , And you, oh! you, my beloved little sister, I don't need to tell you from what heart I kiss you and I love you, you know that, don't you? ...