Francine du Plessix Gray
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Them: A Memoir of Parents
Francine du Plessix Gray
The much-acclaimed biographer’s unflinchingly honest, wise, and forgiving portrait of her own famous parents: two wildly talented Russian émigrés who fled wartime Paris to become one of New York’s first and grandest power couples.
Tatiana du Plessix, the wife of a French diplomat, was a beautiful, sophisticated “white Russian” who had been the muse of the famous Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Alexander Liberman, the ambitious son of a prominent Russian Jew, was a gifted magazine editor and aspiring artist. As part of the progressive artistic Russian émigré…
At Home With the Marquis De Sade: A Life
Francine du Plessix Gray
A remarkable and unparalleled portrait of the Marquis de Sade and the two women who endured his peculiar genius
Much has been written about the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), the flamboyant aristocrat whose years indulging in sexual aberrations inspired his celebrated works 120 Days of Sodom and Justine—and landed him in the Bastille. However, scant attention has been paid to the two women who were closest to him: Renee Pelagie de Sade, his adoring wife, and his powerful mother-in-law, Madame de Montreuil.
Francine du Plessix Gray draws on thousands of pages…
