6/8/2023 0 Comments Chéri by Colette![]() She was the first woman President of the Académie Goncourt, and when she died, aged 81, she was given a state funeral and buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Her writing, which included novels, portraits, essays and a large body of autobiographical prose, was admired by Proust and Gide. ![]() She had a love affair with Napoleon’s niece, married twice more, had a baby at 40 and at 47. Colettte left Willy in 1906 and worked in music-halls as an actor and dancer. By locking her in her room, Willy forced Collette to write her first novels (the Claudine sequence), which he published under his name. ![]() At the age of twenty she moved to Paris with her first husband, the notorious writer and critic Henry Gauthier-Villas (Willy). It was, however, considered scandalous in its day. Colette described it as her most moral work, and critics aplenty have declared it a masterpiece indeed, no one could deny it was one of her most ambitious works. She was born in Burgundy on 1873 into a home overflowing with dogs, cats and children, and educated at the local village school. Chri is something of cautionary tale in that it exposes the tragedy of self-delusion and the cruelty of time. À mesure quelle éprouve le manque de conviction croissant de son jeune. Colette, the creator of Claudine, Cheri and Gigi, and one of France’s outstanding writers, had a long, varied and active life. Cheri By Colette Léa de Lonval, une courtisane de près de cinquante ans, est la maîtresse de Fred Peloux, appelé Chéri. ![]()
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