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An elegant fable for the modern age, Louise de Vilmorin's novella Madame de is a poignant tale of honour, deception and fate. This is the story of Madame de's earrings. It is a story of jewellery, of love, of denial, of pain, of delight, of society, that has the simplicity of a fairy tale, the elegance of an eighteenth century roman-a-clef and the particular echoing loneliness that is a phenomenon of the twentieth Author: Louise de Vilmorin.  · Lecture du Chapitre 5. by. Louise de Vilmorin, Duff Cooper (Translation), John Julius Norwich (Afterword) · Rating details · ratings · 22 reviews. Tells the story of Madame de - 's earrings. This is a story of jewellery, of love, of denial, of society that aims to have the simplicity of a fairy tale and the elegance of an eighteenth century roman-a-clef/5.

Heiress to a French seed company fortune, Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin ( ) was a whirlwind of affaires du coeur as well as publications. Among her amorous conquests: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Orson Welles, Prince Ali Khan, a Hungarian count, Duff Cooper (British ambassador to France after World War II) and André www.doorway.ru setting the social world on fire she also managed to. Marie Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin (4 April - 26 December ) was a French novelist, poet and journalist. Born in the family château at Verrières-le-Buisson, Essonne, a suburb southwest of Paris, she was heir to a great French seed company fortune, that of Vilmorin. She was afflicted with a slight limp that became a personal trademark. De Vilmorin (), a jet-setter best known for her literary lovers (Saint Exup ry, Andr Malraux and the translator herself), writes very much in the tradition of cultured ladies of letters entertaining their upper-class audience ("Elegance rather than beauty was accounted the mark of merit in the circle of society to which Madame de.

De Vilmorin (), a jet-setter best known for her literary lovers (Saint Exup ry, Andr Malraux and the translator herself), writes very much in the tradition of cultured ladies of letters entertaining their upper-class audience ("Elegance rather than beauty was accounted the mark of merit in the circle of society to which Madame de-- belonged"); this genre has included major works of fiction (stretching back to The Princess de Cl ves), but de Vilmorin's contribution to it is decidedly. Find Madame De by De Vilmorin, Louise at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Romans: Julietta / Le Retour d'Erica / Histoire d'Aimer / Le Violon / Madame de. by. Louise de Vilmorin, Claude Schurr (Illustrator), Michel Déon (Préface) liked it avg rating — 1 rating.