Régine Deforges
Régine Deforges was a French author, editor, director, and playwright. Her book La Bicyclette bleue was the most popular book in France in 2000 and it was known by some to be offensive and to others for its plagiarism, neither of which was proved.
Life
Deforges was born in Montmorillon, Vienne, Deforges is sometimes called the High Priestess of French erotic literature. Deforges was the first woman to own and operate a publishing house in France. Over the years, she has been censored, prosecuted, and heavily fined for publishing "offensive" literature, beginning with Louis Aragon: Irene's Cunt.One of her novels,, published in 1981, was France's biggest bestseller. In 2000, it was made into a television series. A story of love, obsession, and survival set during the turmoil of World War II, it developed into a successful series of seven books. La Bicyclette bleue would go on to cause a major international intellectual property court case. In the initial ruling, Deforges was found guilty of plagiarizing Margaret Mitchell's famous novel Gone with the Wind. Deforges freely admitted that the first 70 pages were inspired by Mitchell's novel but the whole book was 1200 pages long. She won her case on appeal, and the ruling ordering her to pay damages was reversed. She was formerly president of the Société des Gens de Lettres de France and a member of the Prix Femina jury. She lived in Paris.
Deforges transformed her home town into a "City of Writing". It has had museums and bookshops with that theme since 2000. The idea that Montmorillon should be a Book town came from Deforges who was then a local councillor. The town had a history of paper-making and her idea received both local and international support. The old medieval quarter of the town attracted six million euros of funding and now brands itself as a book town.
Novels and short stories
O m'a dit, conversations with the author of Story of O Blanche et Lucie, short story about her two grandmothers Le Cahier volé, short story partly inspired by a childhood spent at the École Saint-Martial de Montmorillon Les Contes pervers, her first erotic work, later adapted for cinema- , adapted for television as L'Enfant des Loups in 1991Les Enfants de Blanche, a sequel to Blanche et Lucie Sur les bords de la Gartempe, comprising Blanche et Lucie, Les Enfants de Blanche and Le Cahier voléLola et quelques autres, short story collection L'Orage, Pour l'amour de Marie Salat Sous le ciel de Novgorod Troubles de femmes, short story Journal d'un éditeur Rencontres ferroviaires La petite fille au manteau rose, short story in Chemin faisant, a collection of stories set on public transport La Hire, ou la colère de Jeanne, historical novel about Joan of ArcLe collier de perles / 2006 : Le Livre de Poche / 2004
La Bicyclette bleue
- 1981: / 1987 : Le Livre de Poche
- 1983: / 1987 : Le Livre de Poche
- 1985: / 1988 : Le Livre de Poche
- 1991: / 1993 : Le Livre de Poche
- 1994: / 1996 : Le Livre de Poche
- 1996: / 1999 : Le Livre de Poche
- 1999: / 2001 : Le Livre de Poche
- 2001: / 2003 : Le Livre de Poche
- 2003: / 2005 : Le Livre de Poche
- 2007:
Essays
Entre femmes Fragments Les Non-dits de Régine Deforges Roger Stéphane ou la passion d'admirer- ''Camilo''
Anthologies
Les Cent plus beaux cris de femmes La Chanson d'amour, petite anthologie- ''Poèmes de femmes''
Tales
Léa au pays des dragons, L'Apocalypse de saint Jean L'Arche de Noé de grand-mère Léa au pays des dragons Léa et les diables Léa et les fantômes Le Couvent de sœur Isabelle Les Chiffons de Lucie- ''Les Poupées de grand-mère''
Filmography
- ''Contes Pervers''