Marguerite de Lyon Marguerite de Lyon is a Paris-born author with a powerful true story of love, heartbreaking betrayal, and a desperate attempt to make a new life for herself. Marguerite Petite who was born into a family of six other children, one sister, the rest of whom were boys. At the age of 16, her sister was sent by her extremely strict Catholic mother to be a missionary in Africa. After her sister's arrival however, it became known that she was being regularly molested and raped, yet nothing could be done for her and she was never heard from again. Causing major psychological and emot...