A great traveler,
Vogue
columnist , Hollywood screenwriter, biographer of Pierre Loti, Farah Diba and Isabelle Eberhardt, Lesley Blanch was this extraordinary woman, in perpetual quest for the
“wisp of happiness”
.
Jean-Paul Enthoven portrayed this
“eccentric and splendid Englishwoman”
, among others, in
Seasons of Paper
:
“She had a fiery look.
And a load of memories where melancholy mixed with intact fervor.”
Blanch, French readers know her for having been the wife of Romain Gary, born Roman Kacew in Vilnius, ten years her junior, met in London in 1944, when he was an aviator in the Free French Forces.
A stormy affair which ended in the early 1960s. Gary was inspired by it in his novel
Lady L.,
written directly in English.
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In 1968, Lesley Blanch published
the autobiographical
Journey Into the Mind's
Eye
.
She talks at length about her unconditional love for Russia...
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