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 ...

THE WHITE CHARGER (345 pp.)—Elsa Triolet—Rinehart ($3). Elsa Triolet is the wife of Poet Louis Aragon, one of whose recent volumes was named The Eyes of Elsa. In 1944, she won France’s Prix Goncourt ...

8 x 14 1 ⁄ 8 in. (450 x 360 mm.) Sheet: 25 5 ⁄ 8 x 19 5 ⁄ 8 in. (650 x 500 mm.) Signed, 7/20, from the edition before text (there was also a signed and numbered poster edition of two hundred) ...

The Elsa Triolet - Aragon House is opening its doors for a special evening of art this Saturday, May 23, 2026, in celebration of the 22nd edition of the Night of Museums. This historic house, a gift ...

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 ...