admiring references to Benito Mussolini. Personalities mentioned (selection) Jean Cocteau Cécile Sorel Salamon Reinach Max Jacob Paul Poiret Colette Gaby Deslys Editions The first French edition, with a preface by Dominican priest Alex-Ceslas Rzewuski, was titled Mes cahiers bleus and published by Plon in 1977. The first English edition, titled My Blue Notebooks, was translated by Diana Athill and published in 1979 by Harper & Row; a second edition followed in 2002 by J.P. Tarcher/Putnam. Quality Paperback Book Club bought the rights and the book sold very well. An excerpt from the diares covering the year 1920 was published in the 1998 anthology, The Virago Book of Wanderlust & Dreams, edited by Lisa St. Aubin de Terán. Virginie Girod wrote the preface to the 2021 edition published in Paris by Nouveau monde. Reception Mary-Kay Wilmers reviewed it favorably in a review together with other "narcissistic" publications by or about Jean Rhys, Maimie Pinzer, and Gladys, the Duchess of Marlborough. References Diaries French female erotic dancers Interwar France