In an interview with Pierre Desgraupes, the writer Violette Leduc returns to the importance and influence of the writer Maurice Sachs in his life during the Second World War "which gave him the audacity to write", their departure for Normandy in 1940 and then their return to Paris. She recounts their friendship and life in her book "The bastard".
In an interview with Pierre Desgraupes, the writer Violette Leduc returns to her childhood and the suffering of being a bastard vis-à-vis other children, the authority and education of her mother, both her father and her mother, his lack of tenderness evoked in his autobiographical book "Asphyxiation".
In the Vaucluse, in the village of Faucon, meet the writer Violette Leduc. She explains why she writes thanks to Maurice Sachs and Simone de Beauvoir, for the "invisible or unborn reader", her love or fight with the blank page, her inability to write fiction because of her lack of imagination and her admiration for Jean Genêt.
The writer Violette Leduc returns to the influence and role played by her mother, a single mother, in her relations with men, for her mother, "the man represented the apocalypse", she recounts it in her book "Asphyxia", her encounters and her life with homosexuals -their tenderness- and with which she remained pure and safe, her passionate friendships with women and fleshly pleasure.
In the Vaucluse, in the village of Faucon, interview with the writer Violette Leduc on eroticism, "it is sacred" for her and not vulgar. For her, shamelessness is hypocrisy. She only frequents empty churches when she is unhappy so only in Paris.
In Paris, at the Café de Flore, the writer Violette Leduc returns to the places of her meeting with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre at the Liberation, her fascination for the philosopher and the many photos of Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre displayed at home. She evokes the support that Simone de Beauvoir gave her, when she was a stranger, in the pursuit of writing books and, especially, after the publication of her book "Ravages".
Emmanuelle Devos plays the role of the writer Violette Leduc in the film "Violette" while the actress Sandrine Kiberlain, a friend in life, plays that of Simone de Beauvoir. The film evokes the relationships and correspondence between Violette Leduc and Simone de Beauvoir, her muse, whom Violette Leduc was in love with. In her books, including "La batarde", Violette Leduc evokes her loves, abortion and bisexuality. Recorded interview with Sandrine Kiberlain about her friendship with Emmanuelle Devos.
In her home of Faucon in the Vaucluse, Violette Leduc recounts her organization and her writing habits in the countryside and then rewriting her drafts in her little room in Paris.