The Last Rendezvous

✍ Scribed by Anne Plantagenet

• Book ID: 100206374
• Publisher: Other Press
• Year: 2010;2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 156 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 159051372X

✦ Synopsis

"Women are not supposed to write; yet I write." --Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

In 1817, at the late age of thirty-three,Marceline Desbordes, the actress and Romantic poet--the only woman counted by Paul Verlaine among his po etes maudits, or "accursed poets," a group that included Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, and Alfred de Vigny--marries Prosper Valmore, a fellow actor who brings love and stability to her tumultuous life. Such stability is short-lived, however:When she meets Henri de Latouche, an influential man of letters, they soon begin a passionate affair. Although their tryst does not last more than a year, their relationship survives through letters and memory. It sparks inspiration in Marceline's work and leads her to create some of the most beautiful poetry in French literature. A talented poet, a romantic woman, a passionate lover, a nurturing mother, and a child at heart, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore is rescued from obscurity through...