Louise de Vilmorin

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Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin (born April 4, 1902 in Verrières-le-Buisson , † December 26, 1969 ibid) was a French writer , poet and journalist .

Life

Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin was the second daughter of Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin (1872-1917) and his wife Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan (1876-1937). Her mother was in love with the Spanish King Alfonso XIII. - the liaison had a son, Roger Lévêque de Vilmorin (1905–1980). Louise received extensive training and spoke several foreign languages. While studying literature in Paris, she met Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and announced her engagement to him in 1923. After a plane crash over Le Bourget , he survived only seriously injured. Out of consideration for the wishes of his fiancée and their family, Saint-Exupéry gave up his plan to become a military pilot and went to work in the office - but de Vilmorin broke off the engagement.

De Vilmorin was married twice. Her first marriage was in 1925, when she married the wealthy American real estate agent Henry Leigh Hunt (1886–1972). The marriage that divorced in Las Vegas in 1937 gave birth to three daughters. In 1938 she married the Austro-Hungarian playboy Pál Graf Pálffy de Erdöd (1890–1968), a marriage that was divorced after only a few months. She then entered into several affairs, including with Jean Cocteau , Thomas Maria Count Paul Esterházy de Galántha and with the British Ambassador Alfred Duff Cooper .

With the novel Madame de… , which de Vilmorin published in 1951, she became known outside of France. She was encouraged to write by André Malraux ; the man of letters and later Minister of Culture Charles de Gaulles was her long-time partner. Her first works were social novels , in which she allowed much of herself and her family to flow. The wealthy heiress also made a name for herself as a hostess. On her family's estate, the Château de Vilmorin , she used to gather the leading French artists, including Alain Cuny , Pierre Bergé , René Clair , Max Ophüls , Anaïs Nin , Paul Meurisse , the painters Jean Hugo and Bernard Buffet , the dancers Roland Petit and Zizi Jeanmaire , Coco Chanel and Léo Ferré .

In 2019, the French Post issued a special stamp on the 50th anniversary of de Vilmorin's death.


Works

German book editions

Filmography

  • 1953: Julietta (template)
  • 1953: Madame de ... (template)
  • 1958: The Lovers (screenplay)
  • 1960: The French woman and love, 2nd episode (screenplay)
  • 1968: Moment of Truth (screenplay, with Orson Welles)

literature

  • Jean Bothorel: Louise, ou la Vie de Louise de Vilmorin. Grasset, 1989
  • Albertine Gentou: La Muse amusée. Le Manuscrit, 1998
  • André de Vilmorin: Louise de Vilmorin. Seuil, 2000
  • Patrick Mauriès: Louise de Vilmorin, un album. Le Promeneur, 2002
  • Françoise Wagener: Je suis née inconsolable. Louise de Vilmorin (1902-1969). Albin Michel, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin
  2. ↑ France - Postage Stamps - 2019 - The 50th Anniversary of the Death of Louise de Vilmorin, 1902-1969. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Vilmorin, Louise de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vilmorin, Louise Lévêque de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, poet and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Verrières-le-Buisson
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1969
Place of death Verrières-le-Buisson