Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night won the Prix
Céline in 1932
Céline in military uniform, 1914
Céline c. 1944
Lucette Destouches
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Lucette Destouches was a French dancer. She was married to the writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline until his death in 1961.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
…cadavres (School for Corpses) (November 1938) in which he developed the themes of antisemitism and a Franco-German alliance. Céline was now living with Lucette Almansor, a French dancer whom he had met in 1935. They were to marry in 1943 and remain together until Céline's death. On the publication of Bagatelles, Céline…
Destouches (left), François Gibault, and Maroussia Klimova in 1995