Mes Amours que j'ai tant aimees - inscribed copy
Paris: Flammarion, 1958. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1958, inscribed by author, good copy with some wear to wraps including loss to lower spine, lacking photographic dust jacket. Cocea led a complicated life: a Romanian-born actress who achieved early success on the Paris stage, married unhappily to a duke while promising her lover, an explorer and lieutenant, that she would marry him once she divorced the duke, and the divorce did occur in 1931 -- but when she declined to then marry her lover, he killed himself by shooting himself in the mouth. This caused her to retire from the stage and enter a convent, but she was briefly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi collaborator, and when she married again, late in life, it was to a shady vegetable dealer who was also a well known Nazi collaborator (using his connections to become the owner of a newspaper) and a lifelong fascist. Good. Item #H3997
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