Louise Leveque de Vilmorin

She ended her life as the companion of André Malraux. Was Nicole Kidman's stand-in for the 2005 movie Bewitched. As a young woman, in 1923, she was engaged to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. She was once a body double for Julia Roberts in the 2001 romantic comedy, America's Sweethearts. For a number of years, Vilmorin was the mistress of Duff Cooper, the British ambassador to France. Julie Wagner (born 1965) is an American actress. They married in 1938 and soon divorced.

Her second husband was Count Paul Pálffy ab Erdöd, a much-married Austrian-born Slovakian playboy. They had three daughters: Jessie, Alexandra, and Helena. They married in 1925, moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where Hunt's family owned extensive properties, and divorced in 1937. Vilmorin's first husband was an American real-estate heir, Henry Leigh Hunt.

Her letters to Jean Cocteau were published to acclaim, after the deaths of both correspondents. Vilmorin's other works included "Juliette," "La lettre dans un taxi," "Les belles amours," "Saintes-Une fois," and "Intimités.". Her most famous novel was "Madame de", published in 1951, which was made into a celebrated film in 1953 starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux and directed by Vittorio de Sica. Scion of a great French seed company fortune and afflicted with a slight limp that became a personal trademark, Vilmorin was best known as a writer of delicate but mordant tales, often set in aristocratic and/or artistic milieus.

Louise Leveque de Vilmorin (1902-1969) was a French woman of letters: novelist, poet, journalist.