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4 unusual facts about The Pursuit of Love


Gaston Palewski

In the English-speaking world Palewski is known chiefly through his appearance as Fabrice, duc de Sauveterre, in two of Nancy Mitford's novels, The Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949).

Mrs Craddock

Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love (1945) is about the lives and loves of an unconventional British upper class family in rural England before and during the Second World War.

Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross

Her grandmother, Trix Ruthveen, was the model for "the bolter" in Nancy Mitford's novel The Pursuit of Love.

The Pursuit of Love

Carrie Bradshaw is shown reading the Vintage Books omnibus edition of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate in Sex and the City 2.



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