CRITIQUE – The writer tells the story of a woman who crossed the desert in 1900 dressed as a man.
Writers live by fascination or obsession. Blanche de Richemont has already published books in which the figure ofIsabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was present, In praise of the desert, Forbidden Passionsthis time in La Fille du désert. A life with Isabelle Eberhardt The story of Isabelle Eberhardt, a woman of Russian origin born in Switzerland, who decided to cut herself off from her native country and set off alone into the Algerian desert. An adventure and an existence that have attracted many authors, including Edmonde Charles-Roux – she devoted a two-volume biography to him, Un désir d’Orientand I was a nomad.
In exergue of The Desert Girl Richemont recalls General Lyautey’s admiration for Eberhardt: “She was what attracts me most in the world: a refractory. That is to say, a woman free from prejudice and subservience: a free being, “someone who is truly oneself“.
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