MSOpinion The many lives and loves of French writer Colette “Colette went on to cause scandal after scandal writing about hitherto taboo subjects like domestic violence, anorexia and fake orgasms, before becoming a music hall dancer, mime--
“Colette went on to cause scandal after scandal writing about hitherto taboo subjects like domestic violence, anorexia and fake orgasms, before becoming a music hall dancer, mime artist and weightlifter”
Plucked from the Burgundy countryside by her first husband – a literary agent 14 years her senior — he put her to work writing about her schoolgirl fantasies in the wildly popular “Claudine” books that he published under his own name. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born in a Burgundy village in 1873 and was swept off to Paris at 20 when she married the womanising music critic Henry Gauthier-Villars, aka “Willy.”
Colette’s mother had instilled in her a love of nature that made her fiercely attuned to the senses, and she brought that to the page.First in 1900 came the homoerotic, coming-of-age tale “Claudine at School,” followed by “Claudine and Annie”, “Claudine in Paris” and “Claudine Married”. All were instant bestsellers.
But her best known work abroad, “Gigi,” the tale of a young girl being groomed to become a courtesan, did not come until 1944, and later became a Hollywood musical.Colette’s second marriage was to a newspaper editor and in 1913 she gave birth to her only daughter, also named Colette, whom she promptly entrusted to a nanny.
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