![]() Ĭortázar's father left when Julio was six, and the family had no further contact with him. The Cortázars settled outside of Buenos Aires by the end of 1919. The family group spent the next two years in Switzerland, first in Zürich, then Geneva, before moving for a short period to Barcelona. ![]() After German troops arrived in Belgium, Cortázar and his family moved to Zürich where María Herminia's parents, Victoria Gabel and Louis Descotte (a French National), were waiting in neutral territory. ![]() Īt the time of Cortázar's birth, Belgium was occupied by the German troops of Kaiser Wilhelm II. According to biographer Miguel Herráez, his parents, Julio José Cortázar and María Herminia Descotte, were Argentine citizens, and his father was attached to the Argentine diplomatic service in Belgium. Julio Cortázar was born on 26 August 1914, in Ixelles, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium.
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