"She was lovely, built for the deep seas, with her good beam, straight stem and counter stern, the elegant flush-deco ending with a nice sheer towards the bowspit. Her cutter rig with its very long boom was too heavy so we altered her into a yawl." - Gypsy Afloat, Ella Maillart, 1942
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In December 1930, Hermine married Henri Seyrig, Director General of Antiquities for Syria and Lebanon. He welcomed her son, Francis, whom he named after himself and raised as his own.
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But after covering 900 miles in the Atlantic, the project came to an abrupt halt: Hermine de Saussure was pregnant. Their adventure at sea came to an abrupt end.
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On April 10, 1932, Hermine de Saussure and Henri Seyrig became parents in Beirut to famous French actress Delphine Seyrig (Day of The Jackal, Last Year at Marienbad).
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"I wonder what we should
call our boat: if it's a big
lumbering one 'Canargo', if
it's a beautiful boat 'Atalante',
if the boat is fast 'L'Argo',
what do you think? Write to
me quickly, Miette"
Correspondence between Ella Maillart and Hermine de Saussure, 1925
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Upon returning from her abandoned expedition, Hermine bought a small house in the woods in Charente-Maritime (France), started raising chickens, and lived the life of a farmer.
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24 Jul - 27 Sep 2026
Exhibition in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland dedicated to Ella Maillart and Hermine de Saussure, pioneers of 20th-century navigation.
www.la-tour-de-peilz.ch/agenda-boela...
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"At last we were ready [to cross the Atlantic]. The last letter home had gone, giving Vigo, Spain, c/o French Consul as our next address. On the first of September 1926 we left our anchorage." - Gypsy Afloat, Ella Maillart
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Hermine acquired a 16 m. long pilot cutter, Atalante, in Groix and Ella fitted it out for their trans-Atlantic journey in Lorient.
"With such a plan so nearly ripe, the humdrum life around us did not matter during the next winter." - 'Gypsy Afloat', Ella Maillart, 1942
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