Cécile Eluard recalls her youth among geniuses such as Picasso, Ernst, Dalí and Duchamp

Salvador Dali and Cecile Eluard's mother Gala in Dali's Paris studio in 1934.

 Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS 

 As a book by her poet father Paul Eluard is due to be published for the first time in English, Cécile Eluard, 95, recalls her youth among such geniuses as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí and Marcel Duchamp.