La Sicile du d???but du si???cle, ses palais, ses jardins, ses f???tes, ses moeurs qui semblent plonger dans un pass??? fabuleusement ???loign???, sa splendeur et sa folie, voil??? qui nous est restitu??? dans ce livre unique, ???crit par le duc Fulco di Verdura en son ???ge avanc???, moins pour faire oeuvre litt???raire que pour conserver dans le souvenir une ???poque ??? jamais r???volue. Edmonde Charles-Roux a mis toute sa connaissance de la Sicile et tout son talent de romanci???re ??? traduire et adapter quand il le ... Read More
La Sicile du d???but du si???cle, ses palais, ses jardins, ses f???tes, ses moeurs qui semblent plonger dans un pass??? fabuleusement ???loign???, sa splendeur et sa folie, voil??? qui nous est restitu??? dans ce livre unique, ???crit par le duc Fulco di Verdura en son ???ge avanc???, moins pour faire oeuvre litt???raire que pour conserver dans le souvenir une ???poque ??? jamais r???volue. Edmonde Charles-Roux a mis toute sa connaissance de la Sicile et tout son talent de romanci???re ??? traduire et adapter quand il le fallait ce texte d'un d???licieux anachronisme qui emportera le lecteur dans un monde dr???le, savoureux, exotique. Il y apprendra comment on ???levait un jeune aristocrate ??? Palerme avant la Premi???re Guerre mondiale; quelle impression m???morable causa l'arriv???e d'un chameau dans la maison paternelle; pourquoi et comment sainte Rosalie est devenue la patronne et protectrice de la capitale sicilienne; quelle fonction symbolique ???tait assign???e aux cinq rang???es de loges de l'Op???ra; et mille autres d???tails qui le plongeront dans ce m???me univers merveilleux o??? le prince de Lampedusa avait d???j??? puis??? la mati???re de son Gu???pard . Quel plus beau voyage r???ver que cette remont???e capiteuse jusqu'aux temps o??? Palerme vivait les derni???res heures d'une civilisation ??? nulle autre pareille et d'autant plus ???clatante que les rayons du d???clin la touchaient ? Read Less
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. BC3-A paperback book SIGNED and inscribed by Edmonde Charles-Roux to previous owner on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has scattered wrinkling, crease, and chipping, some light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, wrinkling and crease, some light stains on the page edges, light tanning and shelf wear. Text in French. Une Enfance Sicilienne: d'apres Fulco di Verdura par Edmonde Charles-Roux. 8.75"x5.5", 317 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Edmonde Charles-Roux was a French writer. Charles-Roux was born in 1920 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, the daughter of Francois Charles-Roux, the former French Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, a member of the Institut de France and the last chairman of the Suez Canal Company. Her paternal grandfather, Jules Charles-Roux, was a businessman and politician. Charles-Roux was a volunteer nurse in World War II, at first in a French Foreign Legion unit, the 11th infantry regiment abroad. She was wounded at Verdun while bringing aid to a legionnaire. Then she joined the Resistance, again as a nurse. After the landings in Provence, she was attached to the 5th Armored Division, where she performed as a nurse but also as a divisional social assistant. She also served in the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC) and the Mechanized Regiment of the Foreign Legion (RMLE). Decorated with the Croix de Guerre, she was made Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 1945, and received the distinction of Vivandière d'honneur from the RMLE at the hands of Colonel Gaultier, corps commander. In 1946, she joined the staff of a magazine being created, a women's weekly: Elle, where she spent two years. From 1948, she worked for the French edition of Vogue, becoming the magazine's editor-in-chief in 1954. Reading Vogue democratized luxury while giving access to the most innovative artists of the time, whether such writers as Francois-Regis Bastide, Violette Leduc and Francois Nourissier or photographers such as Guy Bourdin, Henry Clarke or William Klein, or designers Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Emanuel Ungaro. By combining ready-to-wear and Pop Art, she connected fashion with any other form of creativity. She left Vogue Paris in 1966, as the result of a conflict for wanting to place a black woman on the cover of the magazine. Three months later, in 1966, she wrote Oublier Palerme and obtained the Prix Goncourt; the novel was adapted to film as Dimenticare Palermo in 1990 by Francesco Rosi. The same year that she won the Goncourt she met Gaston Defferre, the mayor of Marseille, and they married in 1973. Charles-Roux is also known for her photo stories on the lives of Defferre (L'Homme de Marseille, 2001), and of Coco Chanel (Chanel Time, 2004). She wrote the books of several of Roland Petit ballets, including Le Guépard and Nana. She became a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1983, and president in 2002. In 2008, she was part of the Commission headed by Hugues Gall and charged by Christine Albanel, Minister of Culture, with recommending a candidate for the post of Director of the French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici. In April 2010, she was awarded by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, with the rank of Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur. Edmonde Charles-Roux died on 20 January 2016, in Marseille, at the age of 95.
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