Talk:Marguerite Yourcenar

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privately published seems self-contradictory. Shouldn't it rather be privately printed? S.

I might be wrong, but I remember that Marguerite Yourcenar died recently; I would say 2003 or 2004, certainly not 1987. Positron

According to http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/yourcenar.htm, the date of death is correct. RickK 22:06, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, you are right. What I heard of in 2003 was the centenary celebration. Positron

==Sexuality?== Where does the information about Yourcenar's bisexuality come from? Her only liaison was with a woman so she was probably lesbian not bisexual. (A Gnostik (talk) 21:32, 6 October 2012 (UTC))

"Antinous"
I would guess that "Antinous" is actually Antoninus Pius. So is the novel in the form of a letter to Antoninus Pius, or to Marcus Aurelius? -- Jmabel 07:39, Jun 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * I believe it starts "Mon cher Marc", and does not specifically address anyone else, but I need to confirm this. martin

Antinous is the youth who receives Hadrian affection, not Antoninus Pius.

Time spent on Hadrian's Memoirs
In Yourcenar's own afterword to Hadrian, I think she says she spent several decades on the book. Again--this is something to verify. martin (June 2005)

French and English titles
I've done my best to line up the French and English titles of works. I suspect that a few more of the English titles may correspond to specific works published in French, but I've done what I could sort out. - Jmabel | Talk 04:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Distracting orange message
The big orange message at the top of the page is very distracting to people who are only reading.

I thought it reffered to me, a casual and random reader.

Better state who you are referring to specifically.

Thanks.

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Yourcenar is born in Brussels
I've changed the nationality of Yourcenar in Belge for she was borne in Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. I'm not sure what here native language was, but the nobility of Belgium (She came out a nobel family) usually spoke/speaks French.

However it should be noted that here real name Cleenewerck de Crayencour is actually typical Flemish (A Dutch dialect). Her first name Marguerite is very typical for Belgic women and goes back to the nobel family of Karel Van Gent-Habsburg (in Spanish Carlo V), who was also king of Spain, besides Count of Flanders and Holland. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.146.146.230 (talk) 18:49, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

She is born in Brussels, but she was french
His parents were french, she had the french nationality, she changed and came to the States, and at the end of her life, she took the french nationality to enter at the Academie Française. But she is french

Untranslated quotations in French
Why are these here ? I work as a professional translator, but I obviously realize that not everyone has the luxury of speaking a second language. The quotation is not at all famous or instructive about anything not mentioned before in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.65.202.43 (talk) 05:49, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

The name Yourcenar.
The article says she was born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour, but I can see no explanation of how she acquired the name Yourcenar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JO 24 (talk • contribs) 08:09, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Yourcenar's sexuality: bisexual or total lesbian?
The article states Yourcenar was "bisexual". However her so-called "affairs" with men seemed to have concerned only two gay men (André Fraigneau and Jerry Wilson) and they were completely platonic relationships... Instead she had actual, carnal affairs with Lucia Kyriakos (in the 1930s) and later with Grace Frick, this one for a lifetime (1937-1979). Interestingly enough, lesbianism is hardly alluded to in her work. Like another lesbian writer (Mary Renault), she preferred to write about male homosexuality instead (Alexis, Memoirs of Hadrian or in Mishima: A Vision of the Void). Yourcenar never "came out" and was quite a private woman.—Ana Bruta (talk) 19:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Academie Francaise
...the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3
 * What is the significance of the seat numbering? I can find nothing on this in the article (so it shouldn't be in the lede), or in the Academie's own website. Valetude (talk) 22:32, 6 May 2020 (UTC)