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Love. One of the most charming anecdotes in Galante's book concerns Malraux's 1933 meeting with Louise de Vilmorin, an infectiously gay and witty writer. Over lunch one day, Malraux announced: "It is with you that I shall end my life." Despite that airy prediction, the two drifted apart after a brief affair, and they did not meet again until 1967. Malraux, then separated from his wife Madeleine, determined to keep his prophecy. He moved into the Vilmorin château at Verières-le-Buisson. not far from Paris, beginning a period of almost carefree...
...Malraux plunged deep into his writing. He continues to live with the Vilmorin family in the huge manor house and spends much of each day at his desk, working on his books. His name has frequently come up for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but when the 1971 award was announced last month he was passed over once again. Recently, TIME Correspondent Paul Ress paid a visit to Malraux at Verrières. "Malraux was a bit put out that his two cats both climbed onto the interviewer, ignoring him," reported Ress. "Otherwise he was in fine form, talkative...
...Lions, Kiwanians and Y.M.C.A. swooped down on visiting French dignitaries for a round of lunches and speeches. France's most sought-after artist, Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27, 1956), won the city by sporting a giant Stetson; Authors Pierre Daninos (The Notebooks of Major Thompson) and Louise de Vilmorin were lionized at dinner parties...
Love & Deepened Voices. Not all French women writers are as fiercely intellectual as Simone de Beauvoir or as sensationally sexy as the kiss-and-write girls. Louise de Vilmorin, 48, author of the brilliant little tragicomic gem, Madame De (TIME, Oct. 11), writes books that are always impeccably elegant, and 47-year-old Renée Massip's La Regente is a sensitive psychological study of an unhappy girl and a domineering mother. French women writers, as diverse in personality as in subject matter, range from glamorous Silvia Monfort, 30, whose Droit Chemin is about a professor who tries...
MADAME DE, by Louise de Vilmorin, translated by Duff Cooper (54 pp.; Messner; $2.50), is a literary visit from the frail, salon-bred French writer whose fans think that she may succeed to Colette's place as first lady of French letters. Author de Vilmorin has a wonderful flair for wacky as well as genuine elegance, and writes with a kind of passionate superficiality rarely attempted since the courtly novel died with the French court. Madame De, already known to some U.S. moviegoers in an excellent screen version (TIME, July 26), is a high-society triangle in which...