Emmanuel and Mireille Berl, 1e arrondissement, Paris

'DE 1939 À 1963
JEAN COCTEAU
A VÉCU, TRAVAILLÉ ET RAYONNÉ
DANS CETTE MAISON

 

MIREILLE
ET ÉMMANUEL BERL
ONT VÉCU ICI
40 ANS DE LITTÉRATURE
ET DE CHANSONS'

36 rue de Montpensier.

Cimetière du Montparnasse (continued) #6: Emmanuel Berl

In his novel Sylvia (1952) Emmanuel Berl (1807–41) fictionalises the argument he had with Proust over the nature of love. Berl had a rather erratic love life, marrying and then taking the prostitute Suzanne Muzard as a mistress, later marrying her. His third and last wife was the singer Mireille, whom he married in 1937. Berl's politics were left-wing and pacifist.