6/6/2023 0 Comments Monsieur Vénus by Rachilde![]() The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, Purchased on The Gordon N. Rachilde (1860–1953), Monsieur Vénus (Paris: Librairie française, L. Nonconformists in different ways, they shared two essential beliefs- that art is the only ethos, and that the individual is all. She would become one of Jarry’s closest friends. ![]() At their first meeting, Jarry told her he was disappointed to discover that the author of Monsieur Vénus was a woman. Rachilde achieved renown for her sexually transgressive novels while Jarry was still in high school. Dressing at times in masculine attire, she disparaged female authors and resented being associated with them-her early cartes de visite identify her as an homme de lettres. Born Marguerite Eymery, Rachilde assumed her androgynous pseudonym in the 1880s, regretting, she later wrote, that she had not been born male. Jarry often wrote about himself as Père Ubu in letters to the author Rachilde. ![]()
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