Natalie Barney: Love and Fortune

by Kika Fumero

November 2010

Love became her religion (to Natalie Clifford Barney nothing moved her so much and so intensely as love), an economic fortune was given to her since the cradle by blood, and fortune or luck in life were granted to her by fate: perhaps these three ingredients had to do with the fact that it was virtually impossible to resist this mysterious woman. Maybe… But what is certain is that no one offered any resistance to this great seductress. Born, as they say, with a loaf under her arm: a childhood rocked in a cradle of dreams among the softest cottons. So Natalie Barney spent her first decade: in the bosom of a wealthy family without suffering major setbacks than those according to each age. With only 12 springtimes, Natalie discovered that love for her, had the face and the body of a woman.

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