en Born in Paris in 1901, Denise Martinez was the only daughter of a wealthy family whose father was a lawyer and lover of art. Since 1911, the family spent most of the year in Algeria, in possession of his maternal grandparents due to the fragile health of Denise and that is where it is familiar with the culture of North Africa and the Muslims. In 1925, his parents divorced, separated by a situation that Denise has suffered all his life.