Ex-Emperor Bokassa's daughter publishes a story about her childhood

Paris, France (PANA) - Marie-France Bokassa, daughter of the former emperor of Central Africa, Jean Bedel Bokassa, has publishedba book in which she recounted her childhood with her father at the Chacircteau, Hardricourt, in the Yvelines department, in a Paris suburbs. "I was a princess and I lived in a castle. My childhood, seen from afar, was like a fairy tale. And yet I was not happy. Because the ogre was my father, she recounts in her book published on Wednesday by Flammarion Publishing, noting that with her brothers and sisters they were subjected to military discipline and left in the greatest poverty. Born in 1974 in Bangui, the Central African capital, to a mother from Taiwan, Marie-France fled Hardricourt Castle after Bokassa returned to Central Africa in 1986, where he was jailed for life before being pardoned in 1993. The book, which told the story of her youth from Bangui, through Switzerland and Cote d'Ivorie, but also her adult life, was written with no intention of harming anyone, the author said, in order to avoid possible reactions from other members of her family who do not share her point of view. -0- PANA BM/BEH/MTA/VAO26Feb2019/