Monstrous and Proud

On Simone Signoret, Manèges, and Not Being a Mouse

…What the success of Dédée d’Anvers brought me was an understanding that I was in the process of being catalogued as a whore, and that from then on I’d have two, three, four years of them. What I didn’t realize—I didn’t even suspect it—was that if people had liked Dédée so much was because of the misfortunes of the poor girl, so kind and generous, who w…