The love triangle portrayed in Francois Truffaut's film 'Jules And Jim' is familiar to millions of cinema-goers around the world. It is based on the novel, and indeed the life, of the writer, art collector and roue Henri Pierre Roche. Less widely known, but in many ways more intriguing, is an earlier relationship between Roche and two English sisters, Violet and Margaret Court. This is a love story that began at the turn of the century and was played out in Paris, where Modernism and new morality were born, in London, where the trio were fraternally if flirtatiously blissful, and in rural Kent.
