![]() ![]() ![]() At age five, unruly, rebellious and already dreaming of traveling faraway lands, she fled the austere and harsh atmosphere that pervaded her childhood home. Her mother was a Catholic of Scandinavian origin who dreamed of having a son who would become a bishop. During her old age, Alexandra David- Néel, known to posterity as "Our Lady of Tibet," was considered one of the wisest "free thinkers" of the 20th century.īorn Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David, she was the only daughter of a French father of Huguenot ancestry. The first western woman to enter Lhasa, Tibet, she detailed her adventures in over 60 published works, including the triumphant "Voyage d'une Parisienne à Lhassa" ("My Journey to Lhasa") and "Women in Tibet," 1934. ![]() French explorer, scholar, author and mystic, who became famous worldwide for her wanderings through central Asia. ![]()
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