Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin
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 only child of Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin (1872-1917) and his wife Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan ( 1876-1937 ). Your mother maintained a love affair with the Spanish King Alfonso XIII. - From the liaison was a son, Roger Lévêque de Vilmorin (1905-1980), out. Louise received a comprehensive education and spoke several foreign languages. During her literary studies in Paris, she met Antoine de Saint- Exupéry know and gave 1923 her engagement to him known. After a plane crash over Le Bourget he survived only seriously injured. In deference to the wishes of his fiancée and her family Saint-Exupéry made his plans to become a military pilot, and went to an office job - yet solved de Vilmorin the engagement.
De Vilmorin was married twice. In her first marriage, she married in 1925 the rich U.S. real estate broker Henry Leigh Hunt ( 1886-1972 ). From the compound was divorced in 1937 in Las Vegas, emerged three daughters. In 1938 she married the Austro-Hungarian Playboy Pál Count Palffy de Erdöd ( 1890-1968 ), a marriage that ended in divorce after only a few months. Then she went a multiple affairs, among others with Jean Cocteau, Paul Thomas Maria Graf Esterházy de Galántha and the British Ambassador Alfred Duff Cooper.
With the novel Madame de ..., the de Vilmorin published in 1951, it was known outside of France. She was encouraged to write by André Malraux; the writer and later Minister of Culture Charles de Gaulle was her longtime significant other. Her first works were social novels, in which they had incorporated much of themselves and their family. Made a name for the rich heiress as a hostess. On the castle estate of her family, the Château de Vilmorin, she used the leading French artists gathering around him, including Alain Cuny, Pierre Bergé, René Clair, Max Ophuls, Anaïs Nin, Paul Meurisse, the painter Jean Hugo and Bernard Buffet, the dancer Roland Petit and Zizi Jean Maire, Coco Chanel and Léo Ferré.
Works
German book editions
- Julietta. Novel. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1953 Translation by Patricia Klobusiczky: Dörlemann, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-908777-53-3
- Translation by Patricia Klobusiczky: Dörlemann, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-908777-74-8
- Translation by Patricia Klobusiczky as: love story. Dörlemann, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-908777-37-3