![]() While he was there, his watch was stolen, a gift that his godmother had given to him at his recent communion. In 1939, he was in a public garden (le Square Steinbach) notorious as a " cruising" ground for men. He found it difficult to come to terms with and accept his homosexuality, and described himself as short tempered. He suspected that his homosexuality was due to the repressive Catholic morals of his family which forbade him to show interest in girls his age during his early teens. By his late teens, Pierre Seel was part of the Mulhouse (Alsace) gay and Zazou subcultures. ![]() His mother, Emma Jeanne, once director of a department store, joined the family business when she married. His father ran a successful patisserie-confiserie shop on Mulhouse's main street (at 46 rue du Sauvage). ![]() At the age of eleven, he discovered that his younger sister, Josephine (Fifine to him), was in fact his cousin, adopted by his father when her mother died. Pierre was the fifth and last son of an affluent Catholic Alsatian family, and he was born at the family castle of Fillate in Haguenau. ![]()
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