Kaufman Jean-Marc

Kaufman Jean-Marc

Ghent University Hospital-De Pintelaan 185 B-9000 Gent, Belgium

Biography
His great-grandfather Michel Kauffmann left Alsace in 1871 after the Treaty of Frankfurt and settled in the region of Vitré. Jean-Paul Kauffmann was born at Saint-Pierre-la-Cour but when he was nine months old, his parents moved to Corps-Nuds, in Ille-et-Vilaine, to take over a bakery. He entered as a boarder in a religious college at age 11.Assistant to the Quiet Revolution, he dreamed of staying permanently in this country after falling in love with Mara, a bookseller from Latvia, as he recounts in his narrative Courlande.