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renown was Rosa Bonheur who had a young womn womannear her during all her life.

Gertrude Stein lived 50 years with her devotedAlice Toklas. Marg. MargueriteYourcenar, our 1rstfirst  wmn womanFrench Academ.Academiciannever married and she too had a devoted Muse.

To escape misogyny, other wmn womenwere com-pelled to publish under mascmasculin. names. The 3threeBrontë sisters, Charlotte, Ann and Emily saw theirfirst novels rejected and succeeded only when theypropose the same books, pretending they were3 threebrothers : Currer Acton and Ellis Bell.

Gyp - Delly. Daniel Stern

The other womnwomen, the majority, had to choosebetween ther ambition and their family.

In 1819 Stendhal warned them very pertinently."To publish for a wmn womanis to risk her happiness in a mostcruel lottery : if she has a companion, the 1rstfirst thing she can expect is losing him - and he concluded : All the geniusesthat were born in a female body have been, up to now,lost for humanity."

A typical example - and recent - of society 's ill will to any type of feminine creation is Colette.Until the 70 ies seventiesshe was better known in foreigncountries than in France. (U.SUnited States. - Japan) Because of the "perfume of scandal" surrounding herfirst novel, she was only considered as a femininewriter with perverse tastes, essentially interested inanimals and gardens. Most histories of French littlitterature. of the XX thtwentieth cy centurydon't even mention her name,though her works fill 30 thick volumes. The last one, by Pierre de Boisdeffre, refers to her as