Circa 1910. Photo by Henri Manuel.
Colette in her early years, at the Ba-Ta-Clan, performing "Ca grise". Paris, on April 4, 1912.
Colette in her early years, at the Ba-Ta-Clan, performing "Ca grise". Paris, on April 4, 1912.
Colette wearing man’s suit and smoking, circa 1906. Photo Henri Manuel.
Colette wearing man’s suit and smoking, circa 1906. Photo Henri Manuel.
ca. 1900s
Circa 1905
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) was a French author and woman of letters nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. She was also a mime, actress, and a journalist. Colette was most widely known for her novella Gigi (1944).
