not refused ... they were much cheered up by one another." Nancy Mitford said that Trefusis's autobiography should be titled Here Lies Violet Trefusis, and partly based the character of Lady Montdore in Love in a Cold Climate on her. François Mitterrand, who later became President of the French Republic in 1981, in his chronicle La Paille & le Grain, mentions his friendship with Violet Trefusis under 2 March 1972, when he received "the telegram" informing of her death. He goes on to discuss how, before Christmas 1971, he went to Florence to visit her as he knew she was in her last months of life: he had dinner with her and Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, who was a senior Foreign Office official at the beginning of the Second World War, at her house in Florence. Death and legacy Trefusis died at L'Ombrellino on the Bellosguardo on 29 February 1972. She died of starvation, the effect of a malabsorption disease. Her ashes were placed both in Florence at the Cimitero degli Allori (The Evangelical Cemetery of Laurels), alongside the remains of her parents; and in Saint-Loup-de-Naud in the monks' refectory near her tower. In the 1990 BBC mini-series Portrait of a Marriage, Violet Trefusis is portrayed by Cathryn Harrison. Writings Novels Sortie de secours (1929) Écho (1931) Tandem (1933) Broderie Anglaise (1935) Hunt the Slipper (1937) Les causes perdues (1940) Pirates at play (1950) Memoirs Prelude to Misadventure (1941) Don't look Round (1952) Last works Memoirs of an armchair (1960) From Dusk to Dawn (last work, 1972) Unpublished / other The Hook in the Heart (n.d.) Instants de mémoire (Gestes) La chèvre et le chou (n.d.) The Shortcut Les sœurs ennemies (c. 1940s?) The End Justifies the Means (c. 1947) All Glorious Within (n.d.) Alas, A Lady! (n.d.) Father and Daughter. The Seducer Irène et Pénélope The Sleeper (n.d.) A Tooth for a Tooth (n.d.) References Informational notes Citations Bibliography Jullian, Philippe & Phillips, John (1976). Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton (UK edition); The Other Woman: A Life of Violet Trefusis. Houghton Mifflin. (US edition) Leaska, Mitchell A. (1990). Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910–1921. Viking Adult. Mahon, Elizabeth Kerri (2011). Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women. Perigee Trade. Phillips, John (1985). Last Edwardians: An Illustrated History of Violet Trefusis & Alice Keppel. . Sharpe, Henrietta (1981). A solitary