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Colette

1873 - 1954

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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (French: [sidɔni ɡabʁijɛl kɔlɛt]; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known as Colette or 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Colette is the 326th most popular writer (down from 294th in 2019), the 378th most popular biography from France (down from 330th in 2019) and the 59th most popular French Writer.

Colette is most famous for her novel "Claudine's Education" which was published in 1900.

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Among writers, Colette ranks 326 out of 7,302. Before her are François Mauriac, Henri Charrière, Italo Calvino, Marguerite de Navarre, Nadine Gordimer, and Paul Celan. After her are Anne Brontë, André Malraux, William Golding, Callimachus, Jaggi Vasudev, and Apollonius of Rhodes.

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Among people born in 1873, Colette ranks 9. Before her are Thomas Andrews, Enrico Caruso, Johannes V. Jensen, Lee de Forest, Leon Czolgosz, and Konstantin von Neurath. After her are Jules Rimet, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Alexis Carrel, Henri Barbusse, Otto Loewi, and Luigi Lucheni. Among people deceased in 1954, Colette ranks 9. Before her are Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi, Heinz Guderian, Robert Capa, Otto Diels, and Princess Märtha of Sweden. After her are Gideon Sundback, André Derain, Getúlio Vargas, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, and Alcide De Gasperi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Colette ranks 378 out of 6,770. Before her are René Goscinny (1926), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Jean Renoir (1894), Jeanne d'Albret (1528), Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1010), and Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748). After her are André Malraux (1901), Matilda of Boulogne (1103), Robert Guiscard (1016), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), and Fernand Braudel (1902).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Colette ranks 59. Before her are Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), Antonin Artaud (1896), Héloïse (1101), François Mauriac (1885), Henri Charrière (1906), and Marguerite de Navarre (1492). After her are André Malraux (1901), Ève Curie (1904), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Paul Valéry (1871), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), and Théophile Gautier (1811).

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