On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a colette momsen, actress, and journalist. Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye in the department of Yonne, Burgundy.
The marriage to Gauthier-Villars allowed Colette to devote her time to writing. Colette and Willy separated in 1906, although their divorce was not final until 1910. 1912 she initiated a stage career in music halls across France, sometimes playing Claudine in sketches from her own novels, earning barely enough to survive and often hungry and ill. To make ends meet, she turned more seriously to journalism in the 1910s.
In 1912, Colette married Henry de Jouvenel, the editor of Le Matin. A daughter, Colette de Jouvenel, nicknamed Bel-Gazou, was born to them in 1913. In 1920, Colette published Chéri, portraying love between an older woman and a much younger man. Léa is devastated when Chéri marries a girl his own age and delighted when he returns to her, but after one final night together, she sends him away again.
Colette’s marriage to Jouvenel ended in divorce in 1924, due partly to his infidelities and partly to her affair with her 16-year-old stepson, Bertrand de Jouvenel. The decades of the 1920s and 1930s were her most productive and innovative period. By this time Colette was frequently acclaimed as France’s greatest woman writer. Once again, and at greater length than usual, she has been hailed for her genius, humanities and perfect prose by those literary journals which years ago lifted nothing at all in her direction except the finger of scorn. During the 1920s she was associated with the Jewish-Algerian writer Elissa Rhaïs, who adopted a Muslim persona in order to market her novels. Colette was 67 years old when the Germans defeated and occupied France, and she remained in Paris, in her apartment in the Palais-Royal. Born into a family of demimondaines, Gigi is trained as a courtesan to captivate a wealthy lover but defies the tradition by marrying him instead.
Gauthier-Villars — music reviews for La Cocarde, a daily founded by Maurice Barres and a series of pieces for La Fronde. Colette’s tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Colette’s numerous biographers have proposed widely differing interpretations of her life and work over the decades. Singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash paid tribute to the writer in the song, “The Summer I Read Colette”, on her 1996 album 10 Song Demo.