Colette Peignot

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Colette Peignot (French: [kɔlɛt pɛɲo]; October 8, 1903 – November 7, 1938) was a French writer and poet. She is most known by the pseudonym Laure, but also wrote under the self-chosen name Claude Araxe, derived from a phase in Virgil's Aeneid. Peignot was born in Paris into an old bourgeois family of intellectuals; her mother's side included such academics as Albert Lenoir, Alexandre Lenoir and her father Georges Peignot a famous French type designer responsible for the creation of several renowned typefaces such as Grasset, Auriol, and Garamond working for the company G. Peignot et Fils. Her childhood was very tragic; at 13 she lost her father and three uncles in the First World War. Then, at the same age, she contracted tuberculosis through contact with her uncle Lucien and her young cousin (neither of whom survived) and almost died from it. Finally, she suffered repeated and violent abuse from a catholic clergyman which her mother ignored. She was a student at Cours Desir and short-lived student of Marguerite Long but she soon entered into rebellion against her family and her environment by leading the life of a free woman. In 1925, she met the anarchist journalist Jean Bernier, a friend of Drieu and the surrealists, eight years her senior. Their relationship was a tumultuous one, Ella Maillart, a friend of Colette Peignot, reported that on their first evening Colette said, “I want to drink your blood from your mouth”. The ill-matched couple did not last and their relationship fell apart due to trials of absence, episodes of illness, and Jean’s affair with an ailing woman whom he pitied.