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Murielle Lucie Clement. Michel Houellebecq revisite: L'ecriture houellebecquienne. Paris: L'Harmattan, coll. 'Critiques Litteraires,' 2007. 205 pp. Murielle Lucie Clement. Housellebecq: Sperme et sang. Paris: L' Harmattan, coll. 'Approaches'Approches Litteraires,' 2003. [...]

On December 12, 2022 the first French Lady Brigitte Macron received Olena Zeleska at the Élysée Palace for a three-day visit to Paris, while the international conference “Solidarity of the Ukrainian people” is organized by French President Emmanuel Macron. The visit of Olena Zelenska to Europe proves the love for her heroic people and the fight of a woman for her country. Supported by Brigitte Macron, the Ukrainian first lady is advancing the projects of the Foundation that bears her name. Created on September 2022, the organization makes it possible to structure humanitarian aid, support for education and health. Accompanied and helped by Brigitte Marcon, Olena Zelenska attended in Paris numerous demonstrations and events in favor of Ukraine and in support of civil resilience in Ukraine. She gave several interviews to French television channels and she was the special guest at the BFM TV broadcast live on December 13, 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dora d'Istria, the pen name of the Romanian-born writer Elena Ghica (Bucharest 1828 - Florence 1888), is an illustrious case of the citizen of Nations as well as a transnational and transcultural writer of the nineteenth century Balkan Europe. Romanian and Moldovan of origin (daughter of Marele Ban Mihail Ghica and niece of the reigning Prince Vlach Grigore IV Ghica), Greek by her mother Ecaterina Faca, Russian by wedding (Duke Alexander Koltsov-Massalski), French by heart (she chooses French as the language of expression and writing) before adopting Italy, the other country of heart, where she lived until the end of her life. Dora d'Istria is a writer of great reputation, who was a journalist, polyglot and a multicultural personality as well, she wrote a lot and travelled a lot. She left behind an immense literary legacy, entirely in French. She is one of the most famous female writers of the nineteenth century, and her transcultural and transnational great work deserves to be a little deeper studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Loubna Meliane has 38 years, she was in sixth position on the departmental list of the union of the left in regional elections in December 2015 and she is elected to her first term. This is following a path marked by her action in favor of women's rights. The activist pupil has been the Vice-president of SOS Racisme and has campaigned since 2003 alongside the socialist Fadela Amara (the future Secretary of State Policy of the City of the second government of Francois Fillon) for a better France, for a more generous country and for the freedom of women. If Loubna Meliane is a French political activist, she is also a writer of Moroccan origin, born in France from Moroccan immigrant parents in Dijon in the 70. Between two cultures, the young Loubna feels soon differences separate the two worlds. Loubna Meliane is the Voice of resistance and engagement to group dimension, she is the representative of a generation explicitly mingled with politics, and she campaigned to advance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I will discuss in this paper on Romanian-born French women-writers, illustrious authors of high repute: Dora d'Istria, Anna de Noailles and Martha Bibesco. Three women and as many cultural routes of exceptional women, Romanian women, women of letters and lounges, French women-writers. Three interesting and convergent cases, since all three choose to write in French texts that relate, in their great majority, of Romania. More than Anna de Noailles, who was born in Paris of Romanian parents in exile, both Dora d'Istria and Martha Bibesco come from Bucharest, choose the Parisian scene when leaving Romania, write in French and they become French writers. Paris, the capital of literary phenomena and of cultural crossroads, a city of excitement and fervor, is causing a surge of creativity, the privileged space of a permanent bubbling. A literary capital in the nineteenth century, Paris attracted the Romanian intelligentsia of the nineteenth century, who was, moreover, Francophone and Francophile. Homelessness is part of this displacement and deterritorialization. I will consider Paris as part of my presentation to compare my three Romanian-born French writers, studying the biographical and autobiographical aspects of the exile. From Bucharest to Paris, the Romanian Dora d'Istria and Martha Bibesco seize this space and internalize it. From Paris to Bucharest, the opposite is done this time by the Romanians living in Paris, by Dora, Martha, but also Anna de Noailles, around whom is grouped the Romanian high society attracted by Bucharest, the road runs both ways and space works by means of bipolarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]