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Maison natale de Colette

Historic residence · Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France

Writers & poets

Maison natale de Colette
Photo: Benoît Prieur, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

About 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 France.

From the Wikipedia article “Colette”, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Visiting

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