
The Naked Lady
La Delivrance by Emile Guillaume There has only ever been one word to describe La Délivrance - or The Naked Lady as we used to call her when I was a child - and that is magnificent. She was my first introduction to the spirit of a heroine even before I had the intellect to understand what that meant. At around five years old I was shocked at her brazenness and felt she was doing something both naughty and thrilling. But it was at nine or ten when I passed her by on the way