Louise de Vilmorin
Louise de Vilmorin (1902-69) was a novelist and poet. Married to a Hungarian count, her lovers included Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Orson Welles, as well as Duff Cooper, British Ambassador to France during the 1940s, and the translator of this novella. John Julius Norwich, his son, describes in his moving afterword the ménage à trois that he remembers as a child at the British Embassy in Paris.
