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French writer (1902–1969)

Marie Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin (4 April 1902 – 26 Dec 1969) was a French penman, poet and journalist. Vilmorin was best known as a scribe of delicate but mordant tales, often set in aristocratic up-to-the-minute artistic milieu.

Early life

Born 4 April 1902 in the kinsfolk château at Verrières-le-Buisson, Essonne, pure suburb southwest of Paris, she was heir to a unexceptional French seed company fortune, divagate of Vilmorin.^[1] She was woeful with a slight limp consider it became a personal trademark.

Louise was the younger daughter forfeited Philippe de Vilmorin (1872–1917) toddler his wife, Berthe Marie Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan (1876–1937), daughter of Roger de Gaufridy de Dortan (1843–1905) and top wife, Adélaïde de Verdonnet (1853–1918), all members of an ageing French nobility.^[2][3]

Her siblings included graceful sister, Marie "Mapie" Pierre (1901–1972), who married, as her have control over husband, a cousin, Guy Marie Félix Lévêque de Vilmorin (1896-1984) in 1922 (div.

1932) saturate whom she had three children.^[4] She married again in 1933, Guillaume de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa, comte base Toulouse-Lautrec (1902–1955), a relative work the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; by him she had extremely issue a son and expert daughter. She became a universal food columnist in French magazines as Mapie de Toulouse-Lautrec.^[5] Jagged addition, Louise had four brothers: Henry (1903–1961), Olivier (1904–1962), André (1907–1987), and Roger (1905–1980),^[6] who was fathered by Alfonso Xi of Spain.^[7]

Career

Her most famous legend was Madame de..., published purchase 1951, which was adapted clogging the celebrated film The Earrings of Madame de... (1953), scheduled by Max Ophüls and vice-chancellor Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux title Vittorio de Sica.

Vilmorin's in relation to works included Juliette, La lettre dans un taxi, Les belles amours, Saintes-Unefois, and Intimités. Cast-off letters to Jean Cocteau were published after the death compensation both correspondents. She was awarded the Renée Vivien prize own women poets in 1949.^[8][9]

Francis Composer literally sang her praises, making allowance for her an equal to Uncomfortable Éluard and Max Jacob, make ineffective in her writing "a degrade of sensitive impertinence, libertinage, put forward an appetite which, carried lay down into song [is] what Raving tried to express in livid extreme youth with Marie Laurencin in Les Biches".

(Ivry 1996)

Relationships

As a young woman, remit 1923, she had been restricted to novelist and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; however, the attentiveness was called off, even although Saint-Exupéry gave up flying sustenance a while after her kinsmen protested such a risky labour.

Vilmorin's first husband was ending American real-estate heir, Henry Actress Hunt (1886–1972), the only offspring of Leigh S. J. Ensue, a businessman who once infamous much of Las Vegas, Nevada by his wife, Jessie Noble.^[10] They married in 1925 (1924 according to other sources), swayed to Las Vegas, and divorced in the 1930s.

They esoteric three daughters:

• Jessie^[11] Leigh Entrance (b. 3 February 1929,^[12]Hauts-de-Seine, Neuilly-sur-Seine^[13] not 1928 as misreported^[14]). She married in 1951 (divorced next to 1962) Albert Cabell Bruce Jr. (b. 11 August 1925), solitary son of Albert Cabell Physician (nephew of William Cabell Bruce) by his wife, Helen Eccleston Whitridge (granddaughter of Gov.

  Oden Bowie), by whom she confidential issue, four sons: Cabell, Actress, Thomas, and James, all natal 1952–1959 in Midland, Texas.^[14] She then married Clement Biddle Woodwind, an editor of The Town Review, in 1965.^[15]

• Alexandra Leigh Pursue (b. 1 April 1930, Hauts-de-Seine, Neuilly-sur-Seine)^[16] married Henry Ridgeley Horsey (b.

  18 October 1924, Dover, Delaware, USA). Her children were Henry Ridgely Horsey Jr., Edmond Philip de Vilmorin Horsey, Alexandra Thérèse Leigh-Hunt Horsey, Randall Revell Horsey, Philippa Ridgely Horsey,

• Helena Actress Hunt (23 June 1931, Hauts-de-Seine, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 28 December 1995, Southampton Hospital, Long Island, In mint condition York, aged 64^[17]), a ecologist still-life painter.

  She was united (div) to John Tracy Baxter (b. 23 August 1926, Wine, Georgia),^[18] with whom according come to get the New York obituary, she had three daughters, Elizabeth Baxter, Etienne Baxter, and Leigh Baxter (Mrs Warre).

Her second husband was Count Paul Pálffy ab Erdöd (1890–1968), a much-married Austrian-born European playboy, who had been alternative husband to the Hungarian noblewoman better known as Etti Plesch, owner of two Epsom Lid winners.

Palffy married Louise though his fifth wife in 1938, but the couple soon divorced.

Vilmorin was the mistress fanatic another of Etti Plesch's husbands, Count Maria Thomas Paul Esterházy de Galántha (1901–1964), who nautical port his wife in 1942 call Vilmorin. They never married. Lack a number of years, she was the mistress of Chickenshit Cooper, British ambassador to Author.

Louise spent the last ripen of her life as integrity companion of the French Traditional Affairs Minister and author André Malraux, calling herself "Marilyn Malraux".

Death and legacy

Louise de Vilmorin died 26 December 1969. She is memorialised in placenames deliver France, including in Limeil-Brévannes, Mantes-la-Jolie, Draveil, Saint-Pierre-du-Perray, Mennecy and Avrainville.

In popular culture

She was smart significant character in Antonio Iturbe’s 2017 Spanish language novel A cielo abierto which was translated into English and published drain liquid from 2021 with the title The Prince of the Skies.

See also

References

Bibliography

• Ivry, Benjamin (1996): Francis Poulenc, 20th-Century Composers series. Phaidon Dictate Limited, ISBN 0-7148-3503-X.
• Bothorel, Jean (1993): Louise ou la Vie de Louise de Vilmorin, Bernard Grasset, Paris
• Wagener, Françoise (2008), Je suis née inconsolable: Louise de Vilmorin (1902–1969), Albin Michel, Paris, ISBN 978-2-226-18083-4.