M.M.M.M.

Marie was called de Montalte, Marie de Montalte, Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte.

Marie was her first name, Marguerite her grandmother's, de Montalte her father's (and Madeleine, I don't know, she didn't steal it, no one had such a talent for tears as she did). When I first met her, she called herself Marie de Montalte, sometimes just Montalte, without the particle; her friends and collaborators called her Mamo, which I changed to MoMA at the time of her first contemporary art exhibitions. Then, I dropped MoMA, for Marie, simply Marie (all for this).

MARIE MADELEINE MARGUERITE DE MONTALTE traces four seasons of Marie's life: Faire l'amour, winter; Fuir, summer; La Vérité sur Marie, spring-summer; Nue, autumn-winter.