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The couple married on 4 April 1945 and left to live in Bulgaria where Gary was sent en poste – Blanch was never to return to England other than as a visitor. Gary spent every available hour working on his novel. Lesley would say: “ He was always going to be a great writer. His mother had decided that .”
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In April 1945, she married the French novelist-diplomat Romain Gary. Life in the French diplomatic service took them to the Balkans, Turkey, North Africa, Mexico and the United States. In the United States, they associated with Aldous Huxley and with Hollywood stars such as Gary Cooper, Sophia Loren and Laurence Olivier. [2]
Gary's first wife was the British writer, journalist, and Vogue editor Lesley Blanch, author of The Wilder Shores of Love. They married in 1944 and divorced in 1961.
At a party in 1944 she met the dashing young Free French aviator Romain Gary. They exchanged ‘those stealthy glancing appraisals which seal or shatter a first meeting’. He became her third husband. Thereafter she travelled where his diplomatic career, or her books, took her, to Paris, New York, California, the Caucasus or Afghanistan.
By 1946, he was installed as a French diplomat and married to English Vogue editor, Lesley Blanch. Like Joseph Conrad, the Polish speaker would move from French to English as a writer, though...
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