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Louise Colet (15 August 1810 – 9 March 1876), born Louise Revoil de Servannes, was a French poet and writer. Life and works. She was born at the hôtel d'Antoine ( fr) in Aix-en-Provence in France. In her twenties she married Hippolyte Colet, an academic musician, partly in order to escape provincial life and live in Paris .
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Louise Colet (born August 15, 1810, Aix-en-Provence, France—died March 9, 1876, Paris) was a French poet and novelist, as noted for her friendships with leading men of letters as for her own work. Daughter of a businessman, she married a musician, Hippolyte Colet, in 1834, and published her first poetry, “Fleurs du Midi,” in 1836.
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Sep 24, 2020 · Although Louise Colet (1810 – 1876) won four poetry prizes from the Académie Francaise, it is almost impossible to find any of her poems online– either in French or in translation. To read them, I ordered a book of her poems dated 1844 from a dealer in Paris.
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Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Colet, Louise (1810–1876)French journalist and poet who was Flaubert's lover and the model for his Madame Bovary. Born Louise Revoil at Aix, France, on September 15, 1810; died on March 8, 1876; daughter of a Provençal family named Revoil; educated at home; married Hippolyte Colet (1808 ...
Louise Colet, née Révoil de Servannes à Aix-en-Provence le 15 septembre 1810 et morte à Paris le 8 mars 1876, est une poétesse et écrivaine française.
Louise Colet (August 15, 1810 – March 9, 1876), born Louise Revoil, was a poet born in Aix-en-Provence in France. In her twenties she married Hippolyte Colet, an academic musician, partly in order to escape provincial life and live in Paris.
Nov 8, 2019 · Louise Colet. Louise Colet was a 19th century French poet and novelist who won four prizes from the Académie française for her work.