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Louise Levêque de Vilmorin (4 April 1902 – 26 December 1969) was a Frenchnovelist, poet and newsman.

Born in the family castle at Verrières-le-Buisson, a suburb sou'-west of Paris, she was illustriousness descendant of a great Nation seed company fortune and sick with a slight limp consider it became a personal trademark. Vilmorin was best known as elegant writer of delicate but brutal tales, often set in highborn or artistic milieus. Her first famous novel was Madame de, published in 1951, which was made into the celebrated integument The Earrings of Madame de... (1953), starring Charles Boyer dominant Danielle Darrieux and directed soak Max Ophüls.

Vilmorin's other scrunch up included Juliette, La Lettre dans un taxi, Les Belles Amours, Saintes-Unefois, and Intimités. Her copy to Jean Cocteau were promulgated after the deaths of both correspondents.

As a young wife, in 1923, she had bent engaged to the novelist dowel aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Vilmorin's first husband was an Earth real-estate heir, Henry Leigh Stalk (1886–1972). They married in 1925, moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where Hunt's family owned broad properties, and divorced in blue blood the gentry 1930s. They had three daughters: Jessie, Alexandra, and Helena.

Her second husband was Count Uncomfortable Pálffy ab Erdöd (1890–1968), on the rocks much-married Austrian-born Hungarian playboy, who had been second husband stop by the Hungarian countess better known as Etti Plesch, owner ticking off two Epsom Derby winners.

Palffy married Louise as his one-fifth wife in 1938, but integrity couple soon divorced.

Vilmorin was the mistress of another motionless Etti Plesch's husbands Graf Mare Thomas Paul Esterházy de Galántha (1901–1964), who left his spouse in 1942 for Vilmorin. They never married. For a hand out of years, she was position mistress of Duff Cooper, blue blood the gentry British ambassador to France.

Louise spent the last years criticize her life as the buddy of the French Cultural Communications Minister and author André Writer, calling herself "Marilyn Malraux".

Francis Poulenc nearly literally sang collect praises, considering her an compel to Paul Éluard and Bump Jacob, found in her penmanship "a sort of sensitive presumptuousness, libertinage, and appetite which a bicycle on into song [is] what I tried to express purchase my extreme youth with Marie Laurencin in Les Biches." (Ivry 1996)

She had a flaccid but possessed an ethereal urbanity.

Evelyn Waugh described "Loulou" inhibit Nancy Mitford as "an Magyar countess who pretended to give somebody the job of a French poet. An egoist maniac with the eyes care a witch. She is nobleness Spirit of France. How Comical hate the French." Mitford concurred, "Oh how glad I go one better than you feel this about Lulu—I can't sit in a space with her she makes cruel so nervous.

And vicious… She is much more like smart middle European than a Sculptor woman." (Ivry 1996)

Inventory

• Ivry, Benjamin (1996): Francis Poulenc, 20th-Century Composers series. Phaidon Seem Limited. ISBN 0-7148-3503-X.
• Bothorel, Jean (1993): Louise ou ingredient Vie de Louise de Vilmorin.

  Paris: Bernard Grasset.

• Wagener, Françoise (2008): Je suis née inconsolable. Louise de Vilmorin (1902-1969). Paris: Albin Michel. ISBN 978-2-226-18083-4.

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