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Anna de Noailles

Anna-Elisabeth de Brancovan was a fascinating, exotic beauty, the daughter of a Romanian prince.  Her mother was of Greek descent,

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Marcel Proust

At Musée Carnavalet, the museum of the City of Paris, you find almost side by side, the bedrooms of two

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Colette

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette spent the first eighteen years of her life in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, a village in Burgundy about two hours

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac started his literary career writing for the theatre but quickly found that his best source of income

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The Writers

The bed was the most important place for a large number of the French writers. Whether they wrote in the

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Victor Hugo

Best known for Les Miserables and the Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo had married his childhood sweetheart. An actress

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