Remy de Gourmont

In the summer of 1910, NCB cultivated a friendship with Remy de Gourmont , an important French writer and intellectual, by then an old man disfigured by lupus. He fell in love with her, despite...

NCB sent a copy of Éparpillements to French writer Remy de Gourmont , who told her that he read it with pleasure: I discovered a noble and delicate spirit (and much else besides) with whom...

Remy de Gourmont published some of NCB 's poems in Mercure de France in 1910. In 1921 Pound had two of her poems published in the transatlantic review, with the caption Arranged by...

In 1912-13, NCB 's fame was bolstered by a series of essays addressed to her by Remy de Gourmont entitled Lettres à l'Amazone, published in the Paris literary magazine Mercure de France.

The first half, devoted to men, describes NCB 's encounters with Oscar Wilde , Anatole France , Remy de Gourmont , Marcel Proust , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Max Jacob , and others. The second part...

In the preface, NCB comments that she has never written anything that was not inspired by love or intimacy. The volume contains a long piece on Renée Vivien , and shorter, intimate sketches (...