Fernande Olivier husband without a formal divorce and moved to Paris. She changed her name so that her husband could not find her. Olivier quickly found work modeling for artists; she was a fixture in the circle of friends of writer Guillaume Apollinaire, where she also became friends with Paul Léautaud, Kees van Dongen and Edmond-Marie Poullain. Van Dongen in particular painted her several times. She met Picasso at the Bateau-Lavoir in 1904, and by the next year they were living together. Their relationship lasted seven years and was characterized by its tempestuousness. Both Olivier and Picasso were jealous lovers, and their
Fernande Keufgens it to me." After the war, she married an American soldier, Bill Davis. The two moved to the United States, where Keufgens became a university professor in French. In 2008, Keufgens wrote her memoir called "Girl in the Belgian Resistance." She continues to lecture about her wartime resistance work. Fernande Keufgens Fernande Keufgens (also known as Fernande Davis) was a Belgian resistance fighter with the during the Second World War. Fernande Keufgens was one of eight children in a close-knit family; she was sixteen years old when the Germans invaded Belgium. Before World War II began, Keufgens's father—who witnessed the