{"product_id":"last-rendezvous-book-anne-plantagenet-9781590512784","title":"The Last Rendezvous","description":"Women are not supposed to write; yet I write. -Marceline Desbordes-Valmore \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1817, at the late age of thirty-three, Marceline Desbordes, the actress and Romantic poet-the only woman counted by Paul Verlaine among his \u003ci\u003epo tes maudits\u003c\/i\u003e, or accursed poets, a group that included Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, and Alfred de Vigny-marries Prosper Valmore, a fellow actor who brings love and stability to her tumultuous life. Such stability is short-lived, however: When she meets Henri de Latouche, an influential man of letters, they soon begin a passionate affair. Although their tryst does not last more than a year, their relationship survives through letters and memory. It sparks inspiration in Marceline's work and leads her to create some of the most beautiful poetry in French literature. A talented poet, a romantic woman, a passionate lover, a nurturing mother, and a child at heart, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore is rescued from obscurity through Plantagenet's dazzling writing in this fictionalized biography. The book will include a selection of Desbordes-Valmore's poems in the original French and in an English translation by the Pulitzer Prize--winning poet Louis Simpson.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394189136145,"sku":"CIN1590512782G","price":3.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1590512782.jpg?v=1750926885","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/last-rendezvous-book-anne-plantagenet-9781590512784","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}