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4 unusual facts about Paul Morand


Clara Elisabeth von Platen

Paul Morand: Sophie Dorothea von Celle. Die Geschichte eines Lebens und einer Liebe. Christian Wegner Verlag 1968, ISBN 3-9800226-0-9

Jean Mistler

In 1925 he was accepted into the Quai d'Orsay (Service des Oeuvres), where he succeeded Paul Morand.

Paul Morand

During this period he met eighteen -year old actress, Josette Day, (later "Belle" in Cocteau's film La Belle et la Bête, ) who became his mistress.

He attended soirees which such American cultural notables as Carl Van Vechten, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, Louise Bryant and her future husband, diplomat William Bullitt.



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