This spring, Nancy Huston’s Reine du réel – A Letter to Grisélidis Réal was published, featuring 160 pages in tribute to the Cleopatra of the streets, like a declaration of sisterhood. It didn’t start so well though. The Canadian novelist saw in this “big-hearted whore” the very image of the woman-object offered to man’s desire. But the years passed and literary and theatre discoveries revealed to her the militant poet and the similar indignations that marked their respective paths. Huston then supported the publication of Grisélidis’ complete poems. From this literary and feminist complicity, Françoise Courvoisier draws a double portrait filled with images, voices, poetry and accounts. Under the plural title borrowed from Huston, two charismatic and humorous intellectuals are honoured. Truly royal and real!