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Les Innocentes: Ou La Sagesse Des Femmes
Les Innocentes: Ou La Sagesse Des Femmes | Anna De Noailles
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Anna de Noailles nous propose quinze nouvelles d'inspiration autobiographiques. Il s'agit ici d'une oeuvre essentiellement poetique qui tourne autour de l'amour, la passion, l'attachement fidelite et infidelite, les mensonges et les aveux, la douleur et la vengeance... l'homme, l'amant...et la mort...
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The Countess of Noailles (1876-1933), French poetess wrote:
The innocents or the wisdom of women.
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"We were like those who are going to die, who confess one another everything in silence, take hold of one another spiritually and, by anticipation, have confessed and forgiven everything."
Self translation, I hope it's not too bad, forgive me if it is, please!
You can find this book in English version: The Innocents or Wisdom of Women.

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The countess Anna-Élisabeth of Noailles, born Bibesco Bassaraba de Brancovan,is a poetess and a French novelist, ofRomanian origin, born in Paris in 1876and died in Paris in 1933.

Whenever you can find « Les innocentes ou la sagesse des femmes » in its English translation : « The innocents or the wisdom of women », don‘t miss it if you want to understand women, feelings, love… ! Anna de Noailles, so clever, understood so well humans' feelings.