A novel inspired by the remarkable life of French painter and pioneer Suzanne Valadon.

Paris, 1938. Suzanne Valadon, who has enjoyed having an air of mystery all her life is ready to tell the truth about her chaotic existence. She reveals her difficult childhood in Paris during Belle Époque, her career as a model, her enlightenment through painting, her glory and her inevitable downfall. She describes Montmartre, the Butte, the Painter’s Neighborhood, the good and the bad encounters. She will also lift the veil on the mystery surrounding the paternity of her son and celebrated artist Maurice Utrillo.

With this exuberant novel, Jean-Paul Delfino tells us about Suzanne Valadon as she truly was. For the first time, she is no longer reduced to being the “mother of…” or “the lover of…”

She is Suzanne. Whether a circus performer or a model, she is Suzanne.

Whether the close friend of Renoir, Degas, Erik Satie or Toulouse-Lautrec, she is Suzanne.

Revolutionary painter, she is Suzanne.

She is freedom in motion.

Jean-Paul Delfino began his career in journalism and now continues, in numerous works, to devote himself to his three passions: literature, Brazil and its music. After the publication of several detective novels and the writing of radio plays for Radio France, Jean-Paul Delfino began the publication of a novel series devoted to the history of Brazil entitled Suite brésilienne and has now published nearly 25 novels.