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Date of Birth

28 January 1873, Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, Bourgogne, France

Date of Death

3 August 1954, Paris, France

Birth Name

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Spouse

Maurice Goudeket	(1935 - 3 August 1954) (her death)
Henri de Jouvenel des Ursins	(19 December 1912 - April 1925) 1 child
Willy	(15 May 1893 - 1910) (divorced)

Trivia

Had a trapeze installed in her home gymnasium as her preferred way to stay in shape.

One daughter: Colette Renée de Jouvenel des Ursins, born July 3 1913.

Loved cats, and played them in the theatre. She once played the part of a sphinx, and later a cat in the play La Chatte Amoureuse ("The Amourous Cat").

Personal Quotes

On love: Nothing leads to love. It is love who throws himself across your path. And then he either blocks it forever or, if he abandons it, leaves it in rack and ruin.

On solitude: There are days when solitude is a heady wine which intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison which makes you beat your head against the wall.

On mothering: To talk to a child, to fascinate him, is much more difficult than to win an electoral victory. But it is also more rewarding.

On growth: It is the fight itself that keeps you young.

On experience: One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

On spirit: How beautiful what one does not understand can be!

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