ON ONE side of Paris are the soap-bubble cupolas of Sacré-Cœur, crowning the hill of Montmartre where once St. Denis walked with his severed head in his hands—as Ninon de Lenclos said, “it’s the first ...
The French author Elsa Triolet (1896–1970), born Elsa Kagan to a Russian Jewish family, has been decried by some critics as a Stalinist harpy. This year, “Le Figaro Magazine” faulted Triolet’s “steely ...
WHAT does it feel like, being a muse? The faces immortalised by artists and poets down the centuries tend to smile back enigmatically. But in France a few women linked to big names of the 20th-century ...
A young ’50s femme’s conspicuous consumption symbolizes the evils of postwar European materialism in “Roses on Credit,” Israeli auteur Amos Gitai‘s first fully Gallic production. Though based on an ...
Elsa Triolet (born Ella Yuryevna Kagan; (Russian: Элла Юрьевна Каган); 24 September [O.S. 12 September] 1896 – 16 June 1970) was a Russian-French writer and translator. Ella Yuryevna Kagan was born ...
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