Word: vilmorin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...