Régine Deforges

Régine Deforges is a French écrivaine , born the August 15th 1935 with Montmorillon in the Vienna. Of a very free tone, even libertine, his novels are often feminist pleas defending the women's right to only assume itself, until and including in their Sexualité, which can be the lesbianism. It locates the action of several of its novels in the countryside close to Montmorillon, and on banks of the Gartempe.

Biography

Bookseller, not hesitating to diffuse works libertines, it creates his own publisher, in 1968, but the first book which it publishes the Idiot of Irene , by Louis Aragon, is seized in the 48 hours on March 22nd, 1968. She will be thereafter condemned for “insult to the moralities”, and will be deprived of her civic rights. She publishes then a catalog of books written by women ( Women before 1960 ).

She is also president of the Société of the men of letters and was member of the jury of the Prix Femina of which she resigned in solidarity with Madeleine Chapsal following her exclusion.

The continuation of novels continuing the blue Bicycle is a great popular success (more than ten million sold specimens), but was worth in Régine Deforges some legal contentions with the heirs to Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With The Wind , who did not manage however to convince the judges that Régine Deforges had plagiarized the American one.

It is the wife of the draftsman of the Nouvel Observateur Pierre Wiazemski, known as Wiaz, of which it has a child. It also held a chronicle with the Humanity , whose collections were published.

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