Colette, Marie, Jeanne, Berthe and the others

They are beings of flesh, with striking intelligence. And passionate hearts. I respect each person’s personality – unique, temporal. (…) Most often, I walk in their company. I follow in their footsteps.» Thus Dominique Bona presents Destiny of womena volume bringing together five of her works, published between 1989 and 2017, where we find muses, novelists and painters: the Heredia sisters, Yvonne and Christine Rouart, immortalized by Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Colette and the last love of Paul Valéry, Jeanne Loviton, all “heroines of the novel of their life”. And Dominique Bona added: “They all have a secret and very strong link with me, with my history or my sensitivity.”

If Colette is undoubtedly the best known in this artistic and intimate “gynaecium”, we will discover or rediscover in particular two singular destinies, romantic as hell. Those, about thirty years apart, of Marie de Régnier and Jeanne Loviton.

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