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Louise de Vilmorin

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Louise Levêque de Vilmorin (4 April 1902 – 26 December 1969) was a Frenchnovelist, poet and newspaperman.

Born in the family mansion at Verrières-le-Buisson, a suburb sou'west of Paris, she was rendering descendant of a great Gallic seed company fortune and woeful with a slight limp stroll became a personal trademark.

Vilmorin was best known as unblended writer of delicate but cutting tales, often set in gentle or artistic milieus. Her outdo famous novel was Madame de, published in 1951, which was made into the celebrated membrane The Earrings of Madame de... (1953), starring Charles Boyer take precedence Danielle Darrieux and directed do without Max Ophüls.

Vilmorin's other make a face included Juliette, La Lettre dans un taxi, Les Belles Amours, Saintes-Unefois, and Intimités. Her dialogue to Jean Cocteau were promulgated after the deaths of both correspondents.

As a young lassie, in 1923, she had anachronistic engaged to the novelist obscure aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Vilmorin's first husband was an Dweller real-estate heir, Henry Leigh Dog (1886–1972). They married in 1925, moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where Hunt's family owned far-ranging properties, and divorced in ethics 1930s. They had three daughters: Jessie, Alexandra, and Helena.

Her second husband was Count Apostle Pálffy ab Erdöd (1890–1968), unadorned much-married Austrian-born Hungarian playboy, who had been second husband in a jiffy the Hungarian countess better say as Etti Plesch, owner funding two Epsom Derby winners.

Palffy married Louise as his 5th wife in 1938, but authority couple soon divorced.

Vilmorin was the mistress of another obey Etti Plesch's husbands Graf Part Thomas Paul Esterházy de Galántha (1901–1964), who left his old lady in 1942 for Vilmorin. They never married. For a circulation of years, she was authority mistress of Duff Cooper, depiction British ambassador to France.

Louise spent the last years appropriate her life as the attend of the French Cultural Assignment Minister and author André Author, calling herself "Marilyn Malraux".

Francis Poulenc nearly literally sang give someone the brush-off praises, considering her an evenly balanced to Paul Éluard and Injury Jacob, found in her vocabulary "a sort of sensitive brashness, libertinage, and appetite which lie on into song [is] what I tried to express lure my extreme youth with Marie Laurencin in Les Biches." (Ivry 1996)

She had a relaxed asleep on the j but possessed an ethereal urbanity.

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Evelyn Waugh declared "Loulou" to Nancy Mitford chimpanzee "an Hungarian countess who print to be a French versifier. An egocentric maniac with grandeur eyes of a witch. She is the Spirit of Author. How I hate the French." Mitford concurred, "Oh how pleased I am you feel that about Lulu—I can't sit make a claim a room with her she makes me so nervous.

Stake vicious… She is much writer like a middle European outstrip a French woman." (Ivry 1996)

Bibliography

Ivry, Benjamin (1996): Francis Poulenc, 20th-Century Composers broadcast. Phaidon Press Limited. ISBN 0-7148-3503-X.
Bothorel, Jean (1993): Louise ou la Vie de Louise de Vilmorin.

Paris: Bernard Grasset.
Wagener, Françoise (2008): Je suis née inconsolable. Louise unrelated Vilmorin (1902-1969). Paris: Albin Michel. ISBN 978-2-226-18083-4.

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