A mariage in check : the heart of the bride stripped bar by her bachelor, even

Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927.

On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the

ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced.

Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage, presents us

with "her" Marcel, and relates her encounters with Jacques Doucet,

Constantin Brancusi, Henri-Pierre Roché, Man Ray and Kiki de

Montparnasse, Jean Cocteau, the Ballets Russes, the Duchamp family,

Jean Crotti, Mary Rumsey, Katherine Dreier and Robert Desnos, and

describes the atmosphere at the Villons' (in Puteaux, just outside Paris),

the Picabias' (at Mougins, in the South of France) and the Sarazin-Levassors'

(in Étretat, on the Normandy coast).