« … On a pedestal, in a mess of  hundreds crushed fragments, a box of pastel is open. It is from this friable substance that she makes her masterpieces.  »

Régis Saint Hélier in "Femmes d’aujourd’hui" magazine.

Jean Paulhan - Head of NRF
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Marguerite Yourcenar
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Petite Plaisance, January 21, 1975

« You will understand my reactions, you who talks so well about the large void left by the death of Charlotte Musson …  »

Letter from Marguerite Yourcenar to Jeanne Carayon, sent from Mount-Desert Island.

Marguerite Cahun, friend of Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier at the School of Fine Arts
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