Maude Julien: 'How I escaped from my father's cult'

Maude Julien’s father tried to turn her into a ‘superhuman’ through a series of cruel experiments. Now aged 60, she recalls how she survived her her horrifying upbringing and began to lead a happy and well-balanced lifeIn 1936, a 34-year-old French businessman called Louis Didier struck a bargain with a poor mining couple in Lille: he persuaded them to give him their six-year-old daughter, Jeannine. Didier would provide the girl with material security and a university-level edu