LADY CHATTERLEYS ANDRE MAN.LADY CHATTERLY'S SECOND HUSBAND.
What happened to them all? Nora Helmer, Scarlett O'Hara,
Rhett Butler and Lady Chatterley-a common question asked
by readers worldwide. We ask the question about the future of
Nora Helmer after having left husband and child in the play
" A Doll's House " written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Few dare to ask the question about the future of her husband after she left him? And what about Scarlett O'Hara in the movie: " Gone with the Wind". Rhett Butlers famous statement is movie history: " Frankly, my friend, I do not care ".
The sequel to the movie was made in 1994. The film called " SCARLETT" is the story about
the relationship between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. The French author, Jehanne d'Orliac
has made an attempt to write a book about Lady Chatterley after she left her husband to live with the forest guard, Oliver Mellors. The book was published in year 1935. The plot is about their new life in France. The lady has made a scandal in England. Oliver Mellors has got a work as forest guard in Touraine, France. D.H. Lawrence who wrote the book : "Lady Chatterleys lover" , made a scandal publishing the book. Keywords like: Sex, erotic and sensual descriptions
about the love between Lady Chatterley and the forest guard were not accepted as good literature at the time. Jehanne d'Orliac is not making a copy of D.H. Lawrence bold erotic descriptions or using words that might insult people. No. But she gives a good description of how society approach the lovers who have moved to France secretly to live in peace and to make a life based on sensual body contacts. The society is of less importance for both of them at the beginning of the stay in France. Gradually the French aristocracy get interested in the woman and the man who has made a scandal by making love to each other. The winner is the French
aristocrats who dislike the action made by the lady. The class society makes a move to split the
the lady and the forest guard - and they made it because the lady is a lady made for the rich
and not to stay with an ordinary forest guard: A former soldier and blacksmith.
THE FRENCH AUTHOR: WHO IS SHE BY THE WAY?
I did search for her in some old Norwegian encylopedias without any result. She is not mentioned in my books about French literature either. I had to " google " her so to speak.
Her real name is not Jehanne d'Orliac but ANNE MARIE JEANNE LAPORTE. She was born in year 1883 and died in year 1974. Few information about her is published. She was a famous lady in France before the Second World War. I did not find any photo of her. A report about her written by documentaliste Regine Malveau in 1996 might give an answer to the question of
the writer who had received " Le legion d' honneur " in 1937!
" ...Elle connait toutefois une fin de vie difficile en Touraine apres avoir ele inquietee a la fin
de la seconde guerre mondiale pour son attachement av Marechal Petain...".
Jehanne d'Orliac published about 6 books and many plays and poems. The titles of some books:
" Joan of Arc and her companions ", " Francis I, Prince of the renaissance " and " The lady of Beauty, Agnes Sorel, first royal favourite of France ".
CONCLUSION
The book hunting in Nederhult resulted in information about a French lady unknown to me.
An interesting lady who was awarded for her works in 1937 but whose support to the new leaders of the German occupied France might have been forgotten after the war due to her
support to Marchal Henri-Philippe Petain (1856-1951)?
Marchal Henri-Philippe Petain was condemed to death in August 1945. His sentence was commuted to solitary confinement for life. He died in prison at the age of 95.
To the left: Henri-Philippe Petain.
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