The sweet things, by Alice Dekker: Louise de Vilmorin, Literary Circé of all-Paris. “She collected gossip, confidences, fairy tales,” said Jean Chalon of this “Sévigné of the telephone.
” She wrote books that looked like cakes with chestnut cream and Chantilly cream, said Roger Nimier. At the mention of her name, all her lovers and admirers come back to us: Saint-Exupéry, Cocteau who loved her like a ‘little saint’