Lise Deharme (1907–1980)

Lise Deharme, born Anne-Marie Hirtz in Paris, was a daughter of a famous doctor. In 1927, she married Paul Deharme, the radio pioneer. She became a poet and muse of the Surrealist movement. André Breton suffered from unrequited love for her; after a scene in his autobiographical novel Nadja (1928), she was known as "The Lady of the Glove." Her first publication was as Lisa Hirtz -- Il était une petite pie (There was a Little Magpie, 1928), illustrated by Joan Miro -- but she later used the name Lise Deharme. In 1933, she founded and served as the editor of Le Phare de Neuilly, a short-lived Surrealist literary review. In the summer of 1935, Man Ray began shooting a film at Lise Deharme’s country house in southern France with Paul and Nusch Eluard, Jacqueline Lamba and André Breton; unfortunately, nothing remains of it but a few still photos. Her salon attracted many other artistic and literary celebrities such as Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, René Clair, Andre Malraux, and Antonin Artaud. Besides poetry, she also wrote novels, one of which, La Porte à côté (Next Door), won the Prix Sainte-Beuve in 1949, and articles for magazines. She created a ballet, Paris-Magic, inspired by her friend Jean Cocteau. Another close friend was Marie-Laure de Noailles, the great patron of the arts.