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Yourcenar
“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”

Marguerite Yourcenar—born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour, and adopting the pen name Yourcenar at the age of sixteen when she published her first poems—was a French novelist and poet, one of the most important literary ...

Yourcenar