[2] It is during this same year 1943 that Madeleine Lioux met for the first time André Malraux at her parents' home and her then companion Josette Clotis [fr].

On 12 November of the same year, Josette Clotis, companion of André Malraux and mother of his two sons, Gauthier and Vincent, died in a railway accident.

As pertains Clara Malraux who was still André's wife, she settled down, with their daughter Florence, at 17 rue Berthollet [fr] in the fifth arrondissement of Paris.

Remaining faithful to General de Gaulle during his desert crossing, Malraux abandoned his activities within the RPF and travelled in 1952 with his wife to Greece, Egypt, Iran and Iraq.

He travelled in August and September to South America, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, stayed at the Gritti Palace [it] in Venice.

In 1966, as their relationship deteriorated, the couple separated, and Madeleine Malraux moved to New York for part of the year where she resumed her concert career.

To show his disapproval of this separation for which he held his minister responsible, General de Gaulle offered a gala dinner at the Élysée in honour of Madeleine Malraux.

Back in France, she gave a series of concerts, performing in public until the end of 2011[3] and playing Satie and Shostakovich again and still dating Florence Malraux [fr], whom she loved very much.