I Vividly Remember
My name is Mireille Taub. I was born in Paris in 1938. I didn’t know my name was Mireille until I became a citizen at 13—my parents always called me Mimi. They loved opera, so everything they named was named after an opera. “Mireille” is a very bad opera by Gounod. Mimì, of course, is the character in “La bohème.” My sister is Raymonde Elaine—Elena, “la Belle Hélène.” My father’s company in America was called Manon, after “Manon Lescaut.”
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