Background
Drouet soon overcame much of this skepticism by writing poems before witnesses without her mother present.
Drouet soon overcame much of this skepticism by writing poems before witnesses without her mother present.
Drouet also studied piano and guitar.
Drouet gained fame in 1955 when some of her poems and letters circulated privately among French writers and publishers, generating controversy over whether or not Drouet"s mother Claude was their true author In one such test, she wrote a poem to gain admission to France"s Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers. Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, Drouet toured as an author and musician.
Jean Cocteau said famously of Drouet, "Tous les enfants ont du génie sauf Minou Drouet" (In English: All children have genius, except for Minou Drouet).
She wrote one adult novel. Its title in English translation was Donatella.
Eventually, Drouet returned to her childhood home in Louisiana Guerche-de-Bretagne. New Yorker critic Robert Gottlieb describes Ma vérité as "reticent and skimpy," saying that it focuses on facts rather than subjective interpretations of Drouet"s childhood.
(a collection of poems and letters)