Louise de Vilmorin (1902–1969)
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Opere di Louise de Vilmorin
Le violon de Crémone 1 copia
Fin des Villavide La 1 copia
Fiançailles pour rire 1 copia
Articles de mode 1 copia
Histoire d’aimer [Vilmorin] 1 copia
The tapestry bed 1 copia
I gioielli di madame de *** 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Vilmorin, Louise de
- Nome legale
- Vilmorin, Louise Levêque de
- Altri nomi
- Leigh-Hunt, Louise (Nom d'alliance)
Pálffy, Louise
Vilmorin, Louise Levêque de - Data di nascita
- 1902-04-04
- Data di morte
- 1969-12-26
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Verrières-le-Buisson, Essonne, Île-de-France, France
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- France
- Luogo di nascita
- Verrières-le-Buisson, Essonne, Île-de-France, France
- Luogo di morte
- Verrières-le-Buisson, Essonne, Île-de-France, France
- Luogo di residenza
- Verrières-le-Buisson, Essonne, Île-de-France, France
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - Attività lavorative
- novelist
poet
journalist
screenwriter
letter writer - Relazioni
- Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de (lover)
Malraux, André (companion)
Duff Cooper, Alfred (lover)
Cocteau, Jean (friend) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Légion d'honneur
- Breve biografia
- Louise de Vilmorin was born in the family château at Verrières-le-Buisson in Essonne, a suburb of Paris, France. She was the daughter of Philippe de Vilmorin and his wife Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan. She was the heir to Vilmorin & Cie, one of the largest seed producers in the world, founded by an 18th century ancestor. At age 32, she published her first novel, Sainte-Unefois (Saint One Time, 1934), which was largely autobiographical. Her first poetry collection, Fiançailles pour rire (Betrothal in Jest), appeared in 1939. Although she was to publish more poetry later in life, Vilmorin received most acclaim for her novels, with characters usually from aristocratic or artistic circles. A number of them were adapted into films, including Le Lit à colonnes (The Tapestry Bed), Julietta, and most famously, Madame de … (which became The Earrings of Madame de...). She also was a screenwriter and dialogue writer for several feature films, including Les Amants (1957). As a young woman, she was briefly engaged to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. She married her first husband Henry Leigh-Hunt in 1925 and lived with him in Las Vegas, Nevada, before divorcing and returning to France in the 1930s. She spent the last years of her life as the companion of André Malraux, the French Minister of Cultural Affairs. Her letters to Jean Cocteau were published posthumously.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 37
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 217
- Popolarità
- #102,846
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 43
- Lingue
- 5
I like to think that De Vilmorin set her tale in the past and wrote in the style of 19th century French fiction because she was pleased that women such as Madame De no longer existed. I have recently bought Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s by Anne Sebba and although I’ve only read a couple of chapters, the book shows that reality of life under Nazi Occupation meant that there were grave risks for weak-willed women dependent on men for their sense of self. Then again, the 21st century is replete with celebrity airheads who marry foolish rich men, and maybe De Vilmorin was satirising the behaviour of collaborators.
An idle woman with no children, Madame De is preoccupied with being elegant because that is the mark of merit in the circle of society to which Mme De belonged. She sets the fashion and others follow. Balzac wrote many stories about women such as her, often in contrast to women who used their wit and intelligence to achieve something worthwhile despite the patriarchal society they lived in.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2017/02/16/madame-de-by-louise-de-vilmorin-translated-b...… (altro)