In the Paris Prison La Petite Roquette last week Dictator Mussolini's self-styled onetime intimate, Mile Madeleine de Fontanges, shooter fortnight ago of a French diplomat whom she accused of breaking up her affair (TIME, March 29), wrote day & night with the energy of a newspaperwoman scorned. The police had impounded her diary and she was writing it anew, from memory—about 30,000 words.
"She has already earned 22,000 francs [$1,000] from her story of her experiences written for a London newspaper!" boasted Mile de Fontanges' lawyer, adding slyly, "Of course in London they deleted many of her most amorous details....
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