Title : Frede - Denis Cosnard - book

Summary :

She is a woman of the night, who appears in Patrick Modiano's Remise de peine. She has blue-green eyes, long eyelashes, brown hair, and a cat-like, tomboyish air. Her name is Frede. This stage name, as enigmatic as a sphinx, deserved investigation, because it masks an extravagant conqueror of women's hearts. In the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, where cabarets for women grew like poisonous flowers, Frede bewitched the most beautiful: Anaïs Nin, Marlene Dietrich, the Mexican actress María Félix, and the young Lana Marconi, Sacha Guitry's last wife. In her establishments in Montparnasse, Biarritz, Cap d'Antibes, and the Champs-Élysées, the new queen of the party attracts, to a diabolical rhythm, the happy and the damned: Juliette Gréco, Orson Welles, Marlon Brando, Françoise Sagan, Brigitte Bardot, Sacha Distel, Michel Déon... She sends morals flying, breaks hearts and conformisms. In this ballet of shadows, Frede is the first to let women dance together, cheek to cheek. Here is the story of a freed woman and a clandestine France, as captivating and precise as a report from the Brigade Mondaine. In Frede's company, the night is tender: no reader can resist her...

• EAN: 9782849904992
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