Even the Baltics

Abstract

My mother was French. Her name was Marie Augustine Dupont, and she was born in Collonges-sous-Salève, near the Swiss border. She had studied in Geneva where she’d met my father whose name was Blumfeld, and who was Estonian of German origin. I was named Nancy when I came into this world on October 26, 1906, in St. Petersburg. Like my mother’s best friend, Nancy Renard.