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Yourcenar – une île de passions

uebec operas are not legion, which is why the creation of a new one is always eagerly awaited. Especially when librettists are writers as famous as the late Marie-Claire Blais and Hélène Dorion. Telling the life of Marguerite Yourcenar through her career and her loves highlighted the many fields of interest of the novelist who spent the last 37 years of her life

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