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Colette
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, known mononymously as Colette or as Colette Willy, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name. Her short story collection The Tendrils of the Vine is also famous in…
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culture · French novelist (1873–1954) · novelist · ghostwriter · journalist · librettist · screenwriter · short story writer · playwright · prose writer · actor · writer · also Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle-Claudine Colette, Colette Willy
Born 28 January 1873 · Died 3 August 1954 · Q218679
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2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: Where to start with: Colette
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2022· 1 entry
The New Yorker: The Brilliance of Colette, a Novelist Who Prized the Body Over the Mind
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2021· 3 entries
The Guardian: Colette’s tempestuous summer of 1911, as described in 1973
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The Guardian: How we made Colette: ‘We wanted to give witness to what she had held inside’
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Yahoo: Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Colette’ Tells Woman’s Story Of World War II And French Resistance: “We Were Playing With Fire”
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2019· 4 entries
The Guardian: Colette review – Keira Knightley shines as a racy writer wronged
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The Guardian: Why Colette is queen of the influencers
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The Guardian: Wild, controversial and free: Colette, a life too big for film
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The Guardian: Colette review – Keira Knightley shines in gritty, glamorous biopic
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Stolen thunder: Keira Knightley's Colette champions overlooked female writers
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The Guardian: Colette review – Keira Knightley is on top form in exhilarating literary biopic
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1977· 1 entry
And My Blue Notebooks in English in 1979, describe her
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1970· 1 entry
About meeting her, called "The White Rose"
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1961· 1 entry
“New York World-Telegram and Sun (1961)”
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1954· 20 entries
Died 1954-08-03.
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“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
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“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.”
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“I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.”
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“We only do well the things we like doing.”
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“You do not notice changes in what is always before you.”
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“The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.”
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“The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.”
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“To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.”
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“Humility has its origin in an awareness of unworthiness, and sometimes too in a dazzled awareness of saintliness.”
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“Que encantamento fazer amizade com alguém que você desprezava.”
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“You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.”
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“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.”
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“Connaître ce qui lui était caché, c'est la griserie, l'honneur et la perte de l'homme.”
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“Be happy. It's one way of being wise.”
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“I believe that there are more urgent and honorable occupations than that incomparable waste of time we call suffering.”
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“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
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“The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives”
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“The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.”
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“Well, go and see what a wonderful life I've had". ... "I only wish I'd realised it sooner”
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1953).
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded Paulée de Meursault Prize (1951).
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1949· 2 entries
Career landmark: president (1949–1954).
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It was made into a French film starring Danièle Delorme and Gaby Morlay, then in 1951 adapted for the stage with the then-unknown Audrey Hepburn (picked by Colette personally) in the title role
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1948· 1 entry
Colette was nominated by Claude Farrère, a member of the Académie Française, for the Nobel Prize in Literature
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1944· 1 entry
Colette published what became her most famous work, Gigi, which tells the story of the 16-year-old Gilberte ("Gigi") Alvar
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1936· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1936).
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1928· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1928).
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1925· 1 entry
Met Maurice Goudeket, who became her final husband; the couple stayed together until her death
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1924· 1 entry
Due partly to his infidelities and partly to her affair with her 16-year-old stepson, Bertrand de Jouvenel
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1920· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1920).
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Colette published Chéri, portraying love between an older woman and a much younger man
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1914· 1 entry
Colette was named Le Matin's literary editor
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1912· 1 entry
Colette married Henry de Jouvenel, the editor of Le Matin
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1910· 1 entry
Wrote independently for a wide variety of publications, gaining considerable renown for her articles covering social trends, theater, fashion, and film, as well as crime reporting
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1906· 1 entry
Although their divorce was not final until 1910
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1893· 1 entry
Colette married Henry Gauthier-Villars (1859–1931), an author and publisher 14 years her senior, who used the pen name "Willy"
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1873· 1 entry
Born 1873-01-28.
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