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  1. Violette Leduc has 26 books on Goodreads with 20248 ratings. Violette Leduc’s most popular book is Thérèse et Isabelle. Violette Leduc has 26 books on Goodreads ...

  2. Violette Leduc was born in Arras, France, in 1907, the illegitimate daughter of a serving girl who would later blame Violette for her personal misfortunes. She was sent to boarding school, from which she was eventually expelled after her affairs with a female pupil and a tutor were discovered. Her 1964 memoir La Bâtarde, a frank depiction of ...

  3. She was born in Arras, Pas de Calais, France, on 7 April 1907. She was the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl, Berthe Leduc, and André Debaralle, the son of a rich Protestant family in Valenciennes, who refused to legitimize her. [1] In Valenciennes, Violette spent most of her childhood suffering from poor self-esteem, exacerbated by her ...

    • Violette Leduc, Derek Coltman
    • 1964
  4. edit data. Violette 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.

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    • May 28, 1972
    • April 7, 1907
  5. Read more. VIOLETTE LEDUC was born in Arras in 1907, the illegitimate child of a servant girl. Sent to boarding school before the First World War, Violette was later expelled upon the discovery of her love affair with both another female pupil and her music teacher. During the Second World War she published her memoir, The Bastard, which ...

  6. Jul 17, 2015 · July 17, 2015. Violette Leduc’s Thérèse and Isabelle is a story of marginalized love that has itself been marginalized. Shrouded by censorship laws since the 1950s, Thérèse and Isabelle, just published by the Feminist Press, is now completely unexpurgated and available to a US audience for the first time. Called “the most interesting ...

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  8. Jun 17, 2024 · This would be the book that would really solidify Leduc’s standing as an erotic queer writer, and it places second in notoriety only to her mammoth 1964 memoir La Bâtarde. Its potential as a film was quickly recognized by American director Radley Metzger, who in 1968 brought out a cinematic version of Thérèse et Isabelle starring Essy Persson and Anna Gaël as the titular amorous girls.