Charles Lyell

Biography

It is born in a famous family from Grainetier S. Her older sister will become famous under the name of Mapie of Toulouse-Lautrec as culinary journalist.

Louise de Vilmorin publishes its first novel, Holy-A times in 1934. This immediate and deserved success makes it recognize of All-Paris, and it connects literary successes immediately. Let us quote:

Engagement to laugh (1939);
Bed with columns (1941);
Julietta (1951);
Madam of… (1951);
the Letter in a taxi (1958).

Louise de Vilmorin publishes also several collections of Poème S, impregnated of Fantaisie and Féerie, of which: the Sand of the Sand glass , the Alphabet of the consents . Its imagination expresses in stylistic devices it is fond of delicacies, holorimes (word that it spells “olorime”), Palindrome S of which it wrote a great number and of big size.

It is also the instigator of famous “the Pot to expensive fire” in Paris society man, evenings Sunday during which it brought together her friends with the “blue Living room” of her castle of Glass-the-Bush. Found regularly there Alain Cuny, Pierre Bergé, Rene Clair, max Ophuls, Anaïs Nin, Paul Meurisse, the painters Jean Hugo and Bernard Buffet, the dancers Roland Petit and Zizi Jeanmaire, Léo Ferré, its Madeleine wife and her Saint-Bernard.

Several of its works were adapted to the cinema, like Amélie or time to like (1961) of Michel Drach with Marie-Jose Nat and Jean Sorel, or the Frenchwoman and the love (1960) with Darry Cowl and Micheline Dax. And the masterpiece of max Ophuls, Madam of… (1953) with Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer and Vittorio de Sica.

Louise de Vilmorin was promised in marriage to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, then became the large friend of André Malraux of which it was a time the partner.

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