The Marquise Went Out at Five by Claude Mauriac
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First UK Edition
Calders and Boyars, 1966
Translated from French by Richard Howard
With "La marquise went out at 5 am" Claude Mauriac wanted to challenge Paul Valéry and added a third volume to the series inaugurated in 1957 by Tous les femmes sont fatales, followed two years later by the Dinner in town (Prix Médicis 1959).
Claude Mauriac was a French author and journalist, the eldest son of the author François Mauriac. Mauriac was the personal secretary of Charles de Gaulle from 1944 to 1949, before becoming a cinema critic and arts person of Le Figaro.