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Colette Colette was writer from France
“make mistakes, but consciously. take a step, learn, take the next step.”— Colette Colette
Colette lived this line literally. Her first husband, Henri Gauthier-Villars (Willy), forced her to write novels and published them under his name. When she left, she had to start from zero: performing half-naked on stage for money. Parisian society was scandalized. She did not stop. By sixty she was the most famous woman writer in France.
The Story of Colette
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Colette died on August 3, 1954, in Paris. She was 81. The Catholic Church refused her a funeral mass because of her two divorces. The state gave her a civil funeral, the first ever for a woman in France. She is buried at Pere Lachaise cemetery.
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