Word: jouvenel
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...says Wescott, still exist of Colette as a vaudeville queen-"a black cat in woolly tights with inked-on whiskers," a seductive charmer making a grand entry "with what appears to be a real peacock tail." Colette left the stage to marry a distinguished politician and journalist, Henri de Jouvenel. They were divorced, and in 1935 she married her present husband, a journalist named Maurice Goudeket. But she never stopped writing. By 1919, Marcel Proust himself was shedding tears over her love story of World War I, Mitsou. In 1920 the great Gide breathlessly read Chert at a sitting, declared...
...arouse the nation to its peril were stifled. But anything which could turn Frenchmen against Russia, against the 'Marxists,' against England herself, and also make them look favorably upon the dictators, was hammered home. ... In February 1936 the Führer, through the channel of Bertrand de Jouvenel, was given the opportunity to explain his policy to the readers of Jean Prouvost's Paris Midi. The military reoccupation of the Rhineland was to follow within a few days: as far as propa ganda could go, it was a remarkable performance...
...such that only a good detective could have kept track of her. She has bummed her way afoot over most of Europe, making many an acquaintance on the way, once wrote a novel which she lost in Lake Maggiore, married and divorced famed French Journalist Count Bertrand de Jouvenel, accompanied a French youth delegation to Berlin, returned to the U. S. to roam in Mexico, the Texas oil fields, Hollywood...
...manuscript afterwards testified that he had written almost none, that it was his wife's work. For six years thereafter the collaboration persisted, with Colette writing the books and her husband signing them. Divorcing him in 1906, she acted for a time, married Diplomat Henri de Jouvenel in 1910, became a leading contributor to Le Matin, dramatic critic on another paper, editor of a publishing house, author of some 30 volumes of plays, novels, short stories, essays...
...Logical?" As recorded by M. de Jouvenel and syndicated in the U. S. by Universal Service the interview opened thus...