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French novelist, short-story writer, Communist sympathizer, and member of the French Resistance who was awarded the Prix Goncourt in Name variations: Mme Aragon. Elsa Triolet was a Russian, a Jew, and an ardent, lifelong supporter of Communism. She was an independent, seemingly innocent, promiscuous, and elusive woman who inhabited two worlds, her beloved Russia and her adopted country, France.

Ever aware that she was an outsider, an alien, in France, Triolet realized: "To be a foreigner is not a question of a passport, it is to feel unwelcome. As she related in Putting into Words : "I have a husband who is a Communist.

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And the blame lies with me that he is a Communist. I am a tool of the Soviets…. I am a lady and a slut…. I am a moralist and a frivolous being…. I am the muse and the curse of the poet. I am beautiful and I am repulsive.