"je n'aime pas les films, les tournages. On gagne bien des sous mais on perd la raison"

After many years spent in Greece, Egypt and Rhodes, travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to independence. With only a shirt and a typewriter, but with the success of his Bitter Lemons novels, he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the "house Tartès", his large house surrounded by trees, he wrote the second part of his work, his monumental Quintet of Avignon, gave himself to painting and received his illustrious friends, whose couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, the London publisher Alan G. Thomas, and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho.
Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun, he meets there in the middle of the 1960s the young and sparkling "Jany" (Janine Brun), Montpellier of thirty years with the ravaging beauty, who worked in the department of the Antiquities of the Sorbonne in Paris. She was named "Buttons" in memory of their first meeting, where the girl wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell under the spell of "Buttons", praising his beauty and his eternal youth in exceptional letters unpublished. The three friends spent memorable Parisian evenings, of which we keep precious autograph traces on a restaurant menu and through their epistolary exchanges. Recommended by Durrell, she made many trips including to England where she received a wide correspondence from the writer and original works of art signed by his pseudonym artist, Oscar Epfs.

Unpublished autographed postcard signed Lawrence Durrell from Corfu to his young French lover Janine Brun, named "Buttons". 15 lines with multicolored markers, signed LD
The card carries a photograph on the back of his beloved island of Corfu, which accueilla Durrell during his youth from 1935 to 1941, and inspired his famous novel The Black Book (The Black Book, 1938).