Resultado da Busca
30 de nov. de 2012 · Nancy Mitford was a 37-year-old author and an inveterate master of the tease when she met her match in Free French commander Gaston Palewski at a party in London.
Gaston Palewski (20 March 1901 – 3 September 1984), a French politician, was a close associate of Charles de Gaulle during and after World War II. He is also remembered as the lover of the English novelist Nancy Mitford, and appears in a fictionalised form in two of her novels.
8 de mai. de 2021 · It came at a time when she had fallen deeply in love with a new lover, Colonel Gaston Palewski, a top officer in Charles de Gaulle’s cabinet, who was co-ordinating France’s war effort from...
Lisa Hilton’s book is yet another attempt to explore the fascinating enigma that was Nancy Mitford, but this time taking the more unusual route of closely examining her romance with Gaston Palewski, who was to serve as the model for her devastatingly charming French aristocrat, Fabrice de Sauveterre.
In London during the war she met Gaston Palewski, a Free French officer and General de Gaulle’s chief of staff, at whose feet she laid all her passion and loyalty for over thirty years. Gaston never returned her love but they remained friends until her death. ‘If one can't be happy one must be amused don't you agree? ' Nancy wrote to a friend.
17 de mai. de 2021 · By Hayley Maitland. As interest in Nancy Mitford peaks once again, British Vogue takes a closer look at the author whose family life was just as colourful as her writings. Who was Nancy Mitford? The successful author was born in 1904, the eldest of six Mitford sisters.
Nancy Mitford died before she could write an autobiography but she was one of the great letter writers of this century. Her dazzling correspondence to her family, her wide circle of friends and to Gaston Palewski, the unrequited love of her life, sheds on an extraordinary light on the life and times in which she lived.
