Swiss French
While in England he met, and subsequently married, a Swiss French governess, working for Lord Halifax, Mlle Helène Annette ('Madi') Petitmaitre, the daughter of a butcher from Yverdon in the Canton de Vaud. The couple had two daughters, Anne (b. 1926, d.2002) and Denise Helene (b. 1931, d.2012).