A cross-stitch embroidery next to a faded American flag, a caricature by Georges Wolinski not far from the Memoirs of General de Gaulle, a collection of statuettes of the Virgin and the manuscript of the erotic novel
L'Orage
… At the beginning of this week, on the eve of the auction of the effects of Régine Deforges, the Parisian study Cornette de Saint Cyr housed a curious inventory at the Prévert.
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An inventory witnessing the passions of the writer, who died in 2014 at the age of 78, and who comes from his country house in Yvelines.
“His refuge, our family home.
She had bought it in 1988 and wrote most of the following novels there
, underlines her daughter Léa Wiazemsky, who, with her elders, her brother, Franck Spengler, and her sister, Camille Deforges-Pauvert, resolved
"to turn the page since she no longer felt Mum's presence ”
in this place.
“Régine Deforges: memory of a beloved countryside”, aptly indicates the auction house.
So it's a more intimate sale
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