Régine Deforges, the author of “The blue bicycle”, the slinger and amazing freedom

C‘was a beautiful red -haired woman with clear and trenched ideas, in love with life, love, literature and … Meanwhile, from the cross stitch. For example, How to think that a young lady raised in the sisters. However, leaning, with happiness, on her sons and her dismays would also be a sulphurous devil … Meanwhile, Today, we would praise her splendid freedom. Nevertheless, Feminist before the hour. Moreover, speaking without fuss of the pleasure of women, disorderly attractions, Régine Deforges (1935-2014) also jostled the world of letters by publishing “Le Con d’Irène” by Aragon, “La mort propagande” by Hervé Guibert and other erotic texts in his publishing house with his then companion, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, the publisher of Sade. In addition, He had met her behind the shelves of the Drugstore Librairie des Champs-Élysées.

Today, we would praise his splendid freedom

L’art the brood

The self-righteous, then, are not the last to read what she publishes. Meanwhile, The very Catholic François Mauriac shuddled in his cellar when his grandson. Moreover, Pierre Wiazemsky, known by his artist name Wiaz, married the novelist in 1984 … Similarly, We can remember, with producer Pierre Spengler, she married at 20, in 1953, after losing at 421. In addition, In the game of “Cap or not Cap”, with Régine, it was still “Cap” … Consequently, drawer to store me, ”she confided, amused.

“Critics do not know in which drawer to store me,” she confided, amused.

In 2015. in Paris, the Pierre Bergé & Associates sale house dispersed objects that have “signed” his life: paintings, autographs, manuscripts, drawings, trinkets, rare books including this original edition of “History of O”, with the dedication of the author Dominique Aury, alias Pauline Réage. And its collection of embroidery.

Historical novels – Régine deforges, author "the blue

His literature is as wandering and eclectic as his passions. This lover of the edges of the Garde. the river which enchants régine deforges, author “the blue the hills of Montmorillon, his city of birth, in Vienna, also praises the banks of the Garonne in his bestseller “The blue bicycle”, the novel with ten million copies. An adventure story at the time of the occupation. largely inspired by Malagar-and partly written there-, the “Maison des Champs” de Mauriac in the Bordeaux countryside. Régine Deforges becomes a popular writer and the trilogy is transformed into a decalogy, 10 volumes unrolled between 1981 and 2007. Success duplicated when Thierry Binisti adapts it for television. in 2000, with an almost unknown but starred Lætitia Casta of her role as Falbala, in “Asterix and Obelix against César”.

Throughout the 1980s. Deforges multiplies publications, intertwining to his great saga the story of his two grandmothers (“Blanche et Lucie”), the incredible episode of “La Nuns revolt” of Sainte-Croix de Poitiers, in the Middle Ages, the adventurous epic of Anne de kyiv, Russian princess who régine deforges, author “the blue came to marry the King of the Franks in 1051 (“Under the Ciel de Novgorod ”)…

Scandals. trials

At régine deforges, author “the blue 15, she was sent back from her Poitevine pension after the discovery of a manuscript, “the stolen notebook”, where she talks about her attraction for a comrade. “Outline to good mores. “In March 1968. justice invoke the same reason to withdraw” Le Con d’Irène “from the shelves, two days after its publication, two months before the great protest of May-19968. First in a series of sometimes resounding trials. such as that of “the blue bicycle”: the descendants of Margareth Michell accuse him, in vain, of having plagiarized the emblematic “as much takes the wind”. Régine Deforges claims a supported tribute. Four years of procedure.

Reading advice

“Lola. a few others” (Jean-Goujon, 1979), erotic portraits of women and Paris; “The blue bicycle” (Fayard, 1981), the first installment of a saga that goes from the occupation to the 1960s; “The revolt of the nuns” (La Table Ronde, 1981), adapted to television under the title “The child of the wolves”; “For the love of Marie Salat” (Albin Michel, 1986), love correspondence between two women according to letters chinled in a flea market. All available in the pocket book. A beautiful book, “The Cross Point Collection” (L’Injé, 2006).

The literary world does not care about its shots at good morality. She joined the Jury of the Femina Prize in 1985. chaired him from 1994 to 1998, left him in great crashes eleven years later when Madeleine Chapsal is excluded. Chairs the régine deforges, author “the blue Société des Gens de Lettres (1989-1993). And militates for the right to die in dignity. What she did in April 2014, at 78 years old, six months after the publication of her memoirs, “the child of August 15”.