Lalanne, Louise

Lalanne, Louise Fictitious woman poet, actually Guillaume Apollinaire, sometimes cooperating with Marie Laurencin. In 1909, Eugène Montfort (1877–1936), editor of Les Marges, wished to have a symposium on women in literature serialized in his magazine—at the time a controversial project. Anna de Noailles (1876–1933), Gérard d'Houville (born Maria de Heredia, 1875–1963), and Colette all declined to manage it, but d'Houville suggested that he have someone do it under a pseudonym. The idea took…