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Micheline Presle
French actress (–)
Micheline Presle | |
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| Born | Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne ()22 August Paris, France |
| Died | 21 February () (aged&#;) Nogent-sur-Marne, France |
| Other&#;names | Micheline Prelle |
| Years&#;active | – |
| Spouse(s) | Michel Lefort &#; &#; (m.&#;, divorced)&#;William Marshall &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; |
| Children | Tonie Marshall |
| Relatives | Sarah Marshall (step-granddaughter) |
Micheline Presle (French pronunciation:[miʃlinpʁɛːl]; born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne; 22 August – 21 February ) was a French actress.[1] She was sometimes billed as Micheline Prelle.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Starting her career in , she starred or appeared in over films appearing first in productions in her native France and also in Hollywood during the era of Classical Hollywood Cinem
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Today I was on my own in Paris for one of those rare moments when I have no societal identity. I&#;m not a wife, a mother, a daughter, an employee&#; These stayed behind and let the woman be for once.
I decided to take a literary tour and start with La Maison de Balzac. It&#;s in the 16th Arrondissement, a wealthy and bourgeois district in the West of Paris. It&#;s a beautiful day, rather early in the morning, in a residential area in August: it&#;s deserted and quiet. When I exit the underground at the Métro Station La Muette, the view is typically Parisian with its Métro sign and its building in pale stones with black iron balconies. I walk a little from the Métro to the Maison de Balzac and on my way I come across a triangular building that is so typical from Paris I almost hear it shout “I&#;m Parisian” when I look at it.
Of course the area has much changed since Balzac&#;s times. The street names remind the wanderer that it was a village back then. For example, la Rue des V
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La Paix du Ménage
Domestic Peace
Also translated as The Peace of the Home
Balzac dedicated this short story to his sister&#;s daughter, Valentine Surville. Valentine was quite attractive, and Balzac was concerned she not let her attractiveness ruin her outlook on life. This story takes place in at the height of Napoleon&#;s glory &#; in Balzac&#;s words, at the apogee of its splendor. The trumpet-blasts of Wagram were still sounding an echo in the heart of the Austrian monarchy. All of France and Paris were alive with the splendor of victory and the Monarch with diamonds and riches everywhere. The nobility certainly flung themselves into the life of pleasure, men and women alike. Women were attracted by the military, the true fount of honor, wealth, or pleasure. Gems were in vogue and everywhere.
There, as elsewhere, amusement was but a blind. Calm and smiling faces and placid brows covered sordid interests, expressions of friendship were a lie, a