![]() ![]() ![]() These writings went on to be published as biographies, the very first being Madame de Pompadour, with a life as fascinating, in fact, perhaps more so, than Mitford’s herself. ![]() She adored everything French, and from 1950 began to write about French history, describing characters as one would friends and acquaintances. During the war, Nancy met and fell in love with Gaston Palewski, chief of staff to de Gaulle, and in 1946 moved to Paris to be closer to him. The oldest of the six Mitford sisters, each fascinating in themselves, Nancy was a ‘bright young thing’ who went on to write eight novels, numerous articles, reviews, and essays, as well as four biographies of historical figures, among them Louis the XIV and Voltaire. ![]()
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