Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin

Marie Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin (4 April 1902 – 26 December 1969) was a French novelist, poet and journalist.

Born 4 April 1902 in the family château at Verrières-le-Buisson, Essonne, a suburb southwest of Paris, she was heir to a great French seed company fortune, that of Vilmorin.

Vilmorin's other works included Juliette, La lettre dans un taxi, Les belles amours, Saintes-Unefois, and Intimités.

[8][9] Francis Poulenc literally sang her praises, considering her an equal to Paul Éluard and Max Jacob, found in her writing "a sort of sensitive impertinence, libertinage, and an appetite which, carried on into song [is] what I tried to express in my extreme youth with Marie Laurencin in Les Biches".

She was a significant character in Antonio Iturbe’s 2017 Spanish language novel A cielo abierto which was translated into English and published in 2021 with the title The Prince of the Skies.

Louise's family blazon : Coat of arms of the Lévêque de Vilmorin family, an old French nobility whose members can trace their aristocratic lineage back to the early 14th century; Source: Henri Jougla de Morenas, Grand armorial de France, tome 4, page 453
Château de Vilmorin (2016)
Square Louise-de-Vilmorin (2009)
Tomb of Louise de Vilmorin (2018)