During the war, from 1942 to 1944, she worked for the Vichy government in an office that allocated paper to publishers (in the process operating a de facto book censorship system), but she was also a member of the French Resistance. In the late 1930s she worked for the French government office representing the colony of Indochina. After completing her studies, she became an active member of the PCF (the French Communist Party). This she soon abandoned to concentrate on political sciences, and then law. At 17, Marguerite went to France, her parents' native country, where she began studying for a degree in law. She also reported being beaten by both her mother and her older brother during this period. An affair between the teenaged Marguerite and a Chinese man was to be treated several times (described in quite contrasting ways) in her subseqent memoirs and fiction. The difficult life that the family experienced during this period was highly influential on Marguerite's later work. The family lived in relative poverty after her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of farmland in Cambodia. After his death, her mother, a teacher, remained in Indochina with her three children. Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival, and returned to France, where he died. She was born at Gia-Dinh, near Saigon, French Indochina (now Vietnam), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging people to work in the colony. Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (4 April 1914 - 3 March 1996) was a French writer and film director.
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