![]() ![]() ![]() It was a marriage of convenience for both parties, and Alexandra soon took off for India. In 1904 she married Philip Neel, manager of the French railways in Tunisia. When her voice broke, she became a strongly feminist writer, while her interest in Eastern philosophy matured. Alexandra began her career as a lovely opera singer, complimented by Massenet. She was born Alexandrine Marie David (a distant relation of the artist David) in Paris in 1868 to a left-leaning father, a publisher and a puritanical mother. Although worn down by the hardship of her travels, Alexandra kept a radiance that had drawn countless admirers, including generals and heads of state. When we interviewed the renowned novelist in a Greek neighborhood in the South Bronx, while researching our biography, "The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel," he fondly recalled her eternally youthful air. ![]()
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