The Last Rendezvous Author:Anne Plantagenet ?Women are not supposed to write; yet I write.? ?Marceline Desbordes-Valmore — In 1817, at the late age of thirty-three,Marceline Desbordes, the actress and Romantic poet?the only woman counted by Paul Verlaine among his počtes maudits, or ?accursed poets,? a group that included Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, and Alfred de Vigny?marries ... more »Prosper Valmore, a fellow actor who brings love and stability to her tumultuous life. Such stability is short-lived, however:When she meets Henri de Latouche, an influential man of letters, they soon begin a passionate affair. Although their tryst does not last more than a year, their relationship survives through letters and memory. It sparks inspiration in Marceline?s work and leads her to create some of the most beautiful poetry in French literature. A talented poet, a romantic woman, a passionate lover, a nurturing mother, and a child at heart, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore is rescued from obscurity through Plantagenet?s dazzling writing in this fictionalized biography. The book will include a selection of Desbordes-Valmore?s poems in the original French and in an English translation by the Pulitzer Prize?winning poet Louis Simpson.« less