Editing Vanessa Duriès (section)

==Biography==
[[File:Le lien cover art.jpg|thumb|Cover illustration of ''Le lien'']]
Duriès was the author of the French [[BDSM]] novel ''[[The Ties that Bind (novel)|Le lien]]'' (translated into English as ''[[The Ties that Bind (novel)|The Ties that Bind]]'')  allegedly based on her own experience as a [[Master/slave (BDSM)|BDSM slave]].<ref>{{cite book | title=Encyclopedia of contemporary French culture | first1=Alex | last1=Hughes | first2=Keith | last2=Reader | publisher = CRC Press | year=1998 | isbn=0-203-00330-6 | page=188 }}</ref> 

She created quite a stir in France at the time of the release of the novel, due to her youth and beauty, and appeared on national television, in particular in the show of [[Bernard Pivot]]. She also appeared in a [[Image|pictorial]] and interview in the May 1993 issue of the French edition of ''[[Penthouse magazine|Penthouse]]'' magazine.

Duriès died at the age of 21 in a car crash on 13 December 1993 in the South of France. Because of her early death, she has achieved a [[Cult following|cult]] status for some [[BDSM]] communities. In 2007, five chapters of her second novel ''[[L'Étudiante (novel)|L'Étudiante]]'', left unfinished due to her death, were published in France.

Three other people also died in the crash. The 2007 edition published in Paris by [[Groupe Flammarion|J'ai Lu]]<ref>"L'Étudiante suivi de Le Lien", Éditions Blanche, {{ISBN|978-2-290-00617-7}}</ref> which includes an ''[[avant-propos]]'' by Duriès' editor Franck Spengler and a preface by Florence Dugas, is dedicated: "À la mémoire de Vanessa Duriès, Nathalie Perreau, Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris et leur fils décédés tragiquement le 13 décembre 1993". 

Spengler avows he was editor to Nathalie Perreau, also, and a friend of [[Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris]]. Published in this edition is a short letter written by Duriès to Franck Spengler, inserted between chapters two and three of "L'Étudiante".