"Amorous Details"

In the Paris Prison La Petite Roquette last week Dictator Mussolini's self-styled onetime intimate, Mile Madeleine de Fontanges, shooter fortnight ago of a French diplomat whom she accused of breaking up her affair (TIME, March 29), wrote day & night with the energy of a newspaperwoman scorned. The police had impounded her diary and she was writing it anew, from memory--about 30,000 words.

"She has already earned 22,000 francs [$1,000] from her story of her experiences written for a London newspaper!" boasted Mile de Fontanges' lawyer, adding slyly, "Of course in London they deleted many of her most amorous details. I can now offer the exclusive publishing rights to her diary, but the newspaper that gets it will have to act quickly! She has had many other affairs, but there is a whole chapter on Mussolini."

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