See Louise Colet’s portrait in the Musee Granet
There’s a special event on Sunday, Journées du Matrimoine, which will take participants around some of the sites connected with the women of Aix.
When I wrote my book ‘Aix-en-Provence: the Inside Story’, one of my objectives was to focus on the women, but it was hard going to find anything. It was just as if they hadn’t existed. One I did stumble across was Louise Colet, born and brought up in the rue de l’Opera. Feisty, she soon left town for Paris where she took de Musset and Flaubert as lovers, inspiring the character of Madame Bovary along the way.
Her home will be one of the stops on the walk. It’s organised by http://osezlefeminisme.fr/. Meet at 14.30 in, where else, Brits beware, Place Jeanne d’Arc.
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