Yet, like Aragon and Triolet, they too worked on their joint public image: a couple unshackled by the conventions of marriage but intellectually and politically united.

ECONOMIST: French muses

The Triolet that can be pieced together from fragments of interviews and letters is less offputting: what comes across is a maternal, if at times weary, devotion to a fractious, emotionally insecure husband.

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Like Triolet and Beauvoir, Clara championed feminist causes.

ECONOMIST: French muses