Louise Leveque de Vilmorin
Novelist, Author
1902 – 1969
Who was Louise Leveque de Vilmorin?
Marie Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin was a French novelist, poet and journalist.
Born in the family château at Verrières-le-Buisson, Essonne, a suburb southwest of Paris, she was heir to a great French seed company fortune, that of Vilmorin. She was afflicted with a slight limp that became a personal trademark. Vilmorin was best known as a writer of delicate but mordant tales, often set in aristocratic or artistic milieu. Her most famous novel was Madame de..., published in 1951, which was adapted into the celebrated film The Earrings of Madame de..., directed by Max Ophüls and starring Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux and Vittorio de Sica. Vilmorin's other works included Juliette, La lettre dans un taxi, Les belles amours, Saintes-Unefois, and Intimités. Her letters to Jean Cocteau were published after the death of both correspondents.
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- Born
- Apr 4, 1902
Verrières-le-Buisson - Also known as
- Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin
- Marie Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin
- Louise Vilmorin
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Henry Leigh Hunt
(1925 - 1937) - Paul Pálffy
(1938 - )
- Henry Leigh Hunt
- Children
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 26, 1969
Verrières-le-Buisson
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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