Word: vilmorin
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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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...
...include the author's name in a list of credits printed so small that no one over 39 could read it. TIME'S review of The Earrings of Madame De [July 26] says: "The triumph belongs to Director Max Ophuls." The triumph, also belongs to Louise de Vilmorin, well-known French novelist, beauty [see cut], and femme du monde. Her short story, originally called Madame de-, first appeared in 1951 in a French literary magazine [the Revue de Paris] and was an instant success . . . Madame de Vilmorin claims that she wrote it at high speed...