Marguerite Yourcenar and her love of blues and gospel

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Author Marguerite Yourcenar in 1982. © Wikimedia Creative Commons CC0 4.0 by Bernhard De Grendel

By: Pascal Paradou

First woman elected member of the French Academy in 1980, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) is the famous author of Hadrian's Memoirs. Emigrated to the United States in 1939, she also developed a passion for black American music, to which she devoted a collection of poems and translations in 1984, Blues and Gospel. 

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