Final volume of Mireille Havet's diary published posthumously

Editions Claire Paulhan has published the last surviving notebook of Mireille Havet's diary, covering January to October 1929. Havet, a French writer and homosexual woman, died in 1931 from tuberculosis exacerbated by drug addiction and poverty. The diary details her struggles with cocaine and heroin, her tumultuous relationship with an American woman named Norma in New York, and her eventual turn to religion. In her final entries, she addresses God with unexpected serenity. Her body was buried in a common grave in a Swiss cemetery. The notebooks were rediscovered in 1994 in an attic in Touraine, France. The publication is introduced by Claire Paulhan and includes a text by Jacques Henric.