«Les partis ne vous ont pas manqué. Vous avez toujours refusé. Pourquoi? On ne le saura jamais.» Ainsi parle à Mademoiselle Clarisse – cinquante-quatre ans – un client de son café-épicerie-mercerie de village. Nous non plus, nous ne saurons pas pourquoi Clarisse – fort sociable pourtant, et qui ent...more
Leduc was born in Arras, Pas de Calais, France, the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl, Berthe. In Valenciennes, the young Violette spent most of her childhood suffering from an ugly self-image and from her mother's hostility and overprotectiveness.
Her formal education, begun in 1913, was interrupted by World War I. After the war, she went to a boarding school, the Collège de Douai, where she experienced lesbian affairs with a classmate and a music instructor who was fired over...more
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