This journey served as an inspiration to Duchamp who wrote four notes marginales, " Route Jura-Paris " from La Boîte de 1914.

[4] Duchamp created a prelude to his work La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même.

On the basis of the meeting, a book was published with essays on Cubism, Les peintres cubistes, by Apollinaire, financed by Picabia.

From 1941, during the Second World War, she was a member of the French Resistance in Paris, alongside Samuel Beckett, Mary Reynolds, Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, and others.

Marie's husband was away and her children were without their mother so Gabrielle spent time with them in Lyon whilst still working for the resistance.

[8] In fact, after Montet was arrested as a result of the double agent Jacques Desoubrie she left her place in Dieulefit and went further south climbing over the Pyrennes and travelling to Barcelona and Madrid.