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  1. Sep 24, 2018 · Colette (1873 – 1954), the French author (born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) was as known for her writing as for her scandalous love life in the course of her prolific career. Rejecting society’s rules for female expression and sexuality, she overcame notoriety to be regarded as one of the most treasured authors in the canon of French literature.

  2. Jan 7, 2019 · Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette in Paris, 1935. Photograph: Imagno/Getty Images. When Colette finished her first, autobiographical novel, Claudine at School, she was amazed. “I have discovered an...

  3. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, more popularly known Colette, was a French writer, stage actress, and journalist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Colettes early career as a writer was hidden behind the shadow of her husband as she was made to write under his name.

  4. Feb 23, 2023 · Simone de Beauvoir called her “the only great woman writer in France”, but Colette also flourished as a dancer, screenwriter, librettist, journalist and the hands-on owner of a beauty chain....

  5. Gigi ( pronounced [ʒi.ʒi]) is a 1944 novella by French writer Colette. The plot focuses on a young Parisian girl being groomed for a career as a courtesan and her relationship with the wealthy cultured man named Gaston who falls in love with her and eventually marries her.

  6. 3 days ago · They came for a full day of author readings and signings, music performances and hanging out in what Groff says is “meant to be a safe space.” And they came to buy books, 998 of them to be ...

  7. 2 days ago · In Paris’s Père Lachaise Cemetery, they chase insects from the graves of Molière, Édith Piaf, and Colette. ... Jess McHugh is a Paris-based writer who frequently covers the effects of climate ...

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