In 1939, she married the writer Robert Antelme, whom she had met during her studies.ĭuring World War II, from 1942 to 1944, Duras worked for the Vichy government in an office that allocated paper quotas to publishers and in the process operated a de facto book-censorship system. After completing her studies in 1938, she worked for the French government in the Ministry of the Colonies. She soon abandoned this to concentrate on political science.
In 1933, Duras embarked alone for Paris to study law and mathematics. Duras returned to Saigon again with Paul and her mother in 1932 and completed her second baccalaureate, leaving Pierre in France. In 1931, when she was 17, Duras and her family moved to France and she completed her baccalaureate. The family struggled financially and her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of rice farmland in Prey Nob, a story which was fictionalized in Un Barrage contre le Pacifique. They then moved back to French Indochina when she was posted to Phnom Penh followed by Vĩnh Long and Sa Đéc. Between 19, the surviving family lived in France while her mother was on administrative leave. Henri Donnadieu fell ill, returned to France, and then died in 1921. Marguerite had two older siblings: Pierre, the eldest, and Paul. Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877-1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872-1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School. Marguerite Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam).
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