cover her losses, Monnier auctioned her personal collection of 400 books, many inscribed to her by their authors. A decade later, Monnier launched a successor periodical, the Gazette des Amis des Livres, which ran from January 1938 until May 1940. Later years Although Beach closed her store during the German Occupation, Monnier's remained open and continued to provide books and solace to Parisian readers. For ten years after the war Monnier continued her work as an essayist, translator and bookseller. Plagued by ill health, Monnier was diagnosed in September 1954 with Ménière's disease, a disorder of the inner ear which affects balance and hearing. She also suffered from delusions. On 19 June 1955, she committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. Works Les Gazettes, Gallimard, Paris, 1960. La Figure, René Julliard, Paris, 1923. Les Vertus, René Julliard, Paris, 1926. Fableaux, René Julliard, Paris, 1932. Souvenirs de Londres, Mercure de France, Paris, 1957. Rue de l'Odéon, Albin Michel, Paris, 1960. References Notes Sources External links 1892 births 1955 deaths Writers from Paris Suicides by poison Modernist women writers French booksellers French women poets French LGBT poets 20th-century French poets 20th-century French women writers 1955 suicides 20th-century LGBT people People with Ménière's Disease