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...each of the mothers the sex of her baby, but because each had had a hard time at the birth, neither mother saw her child naked until she was ready to take it home. By then a weird Gilbert and Sullivan baby switch had apparently taken place. When Mme. Piesset, whose only daughter had died only three years before, found that the boy baby she had called Guy was in reality a girl, she thought it an act of providence, and pursued the matter no further. Jeanne Derock, on the other hand, was mystified and indignant. Unwillingly taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Seven-Year Switch | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Plump and pleasant Janine Piesset and her husband, a plumber, live in a tiny red brick house in a pleasant corner of Roubaix (pop. 98,834). Until recently, their home was a happy one, and its brightest adornment a smart, pretty girl going on seven, whom they call Viviane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Seven-Year Switch | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Last week, as the result of nearly seven years of slow and painful litigation pursued by Mme. Derock with the aid of sympathetic lawyers and newsmen, a French court ordered the child known as Viviane Piesset taken from her own pleasant home and delivered to the home of the Derocks. Why? After pondering the results of blood tests and other evidence, the court had decided "with the greatest certainty" that Viviane was in reality Louise, a child born out of wedlock to Mme. Derock within one hour of the birth of a legitimate son to Mme. Piesset in the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Seven-Year Switch | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

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