In the 1930s, the young writer Elsa Triolet made Haute Couture jewelry for Schiapiarelli
and other couturiers. Her creations stood out among the rest by originality and a great
diversity of materials and forms: coconuts, paper mache, metal, rhinestones, mother-of-pearl,
porcelain, beads, bakelite, leather... Let's open the compartment suitcase bequeathed by
Elsa's husband Louis Aragon to the library...

(Photo by D. and W. Cordier)