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Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. [1]

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Alan Jay Lerner

Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist.

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André Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 192920 January 1993) was a British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian.

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Battle of France

The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.

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Belle Époque

The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque (French for "Beautiful Era") was a period of Western history.

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Bertrand de Jouvenel

Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins, usually known only as Bertrand de Jouvenel (31 October 1903 – 1 March 1987), was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist.

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Break of Day

Break of Day (La Naissance du jour) is a 1928 novel by the French writer Colette.

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Burgundy

Burgundy (Bourgogne) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France.

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Chéri (novel)

Chéri is a novel by Colette published in French in 1920.

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Claudine (book series)

The Claudine series consists of four early novels by the French author Colette, published 1900-1904.

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Claudine at School

Claudine at School (Claudine à l'école) is a 1900 novel by the French writer Colette.

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Colette (2018 film)

Colette is an upcoming biographical drama film based on the life of the French novelist Colette.

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Colette de Jouvenel

Colette de Jouvenel, also known as Bel-Gazou, July 1913 - 1981, was the daughter of French writer Colette and her second husband, Henri de Jouvenel.

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Courtesan

A courtesan was originally a courtier, which means a person who attends the court of a monarch or other powerful person.

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Danièle Delorme

Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée Girard (9 October 1926 – 17 October 2015), known by her stage name Danièle Delorme, was a French actress and film producer.

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Demimonde

Demi-monde refers to a group of people who live hedonistic lifestyles, usually in a flagrant and conspicuous manner.

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Duo (novel)

Duo is a 1934 novel by the French writer Colette.

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Edmond de Goncourt

Edmond de Goncourt (26 May 182216 July 1896), born Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt, was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.

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Frederick Loewe

Frederick Loewe (originally German Friedrich (Fritz) Löwe; June 10, 1901 – February 14, 1988), was an Austrian-American composer.

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Gaby Morlay

Gaby Morlay (born Blanche Pauline Fumoleau; 8 June 1893 – 4 July 1964) was a French film actress.

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Gigi

Gigi is a 1944 novella by French writer Colette.

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Gigi (1958 film)

Gigi is a 1958 American musical-romance film directed by Vincente Minnelli processed using MGM's Metrocolor.

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Gigi (musical)

Gigi is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

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Green Wheat

Green Wheat (Le Blé en herbe) is a 1923 novel by the French writer Colette.

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Have You in My Wilderness

Have You in My Wilderness is the fourth studio album by American musician Julia Holter, released on September 25, 2015, on Domino Records.

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Henry de Jouvenel

Henry de Jouvenel des Ursins (5 April 1876 – 5 October 1935) was a French journalist and statesman.

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Henry de Montherlant

Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant (20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist.

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Henry Gauthier-Villars

Henry Gauthier-Villars (8 August 1859 – 12 January 1931) or Willy, his nom-de-plume, was a French fin de siècle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the mentor and first husband of Colette.

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Irving Penn

Irving Penn (June 16, 1917October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes.

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Izis Bidermanas

Israëlis Bidermanas (17 January 1911 in Marijampolė – 16 May 1980 in Paris), who worked under the name of Izis, was a Lithuanian-Jewish photographer who worked in France and is best known for his photographs of French circuses and of Paris.

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Janet Flanner

Janet Flanner (March 13, 1892 – November 7, 1978) was an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975.

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Jean-Pierre Thiollet

Jean-Pierre Thiollet (born December 9, 1956 in Poitiers) is a French writer and journalist.

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Julia Holter

Julia Shammas Holter (born December 18, 1984) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, composer and artist, based in Los Angeles.

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Keira Knightley

Keira Christina Knightley, OBE (born 26 March 1985) is an English actress.

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L'enfant et les sortilèges

L'enfant et les sortilèges: Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties (The Child and the Spells: A Lyric Fantasy in Two Parts) is an opera in one act, with music by Maurice Ravel to a libretto by Colette.

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La Chatte

La Chatte is a short novel by French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.

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Le Matin (France)

Le Matin was a French daily newspaper first published in 1884 and discontinued in 1944.

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Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century

The 100 Books of the Century (Les cent livres du siècle) is a list of the one hundred best books of the 20th century, according to a poll conducted in the spring of 1999 by the French retailer Fnac and the Paris newspaper Le Monde.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Lerner and Loewe

Lerner and Loewe were the team of lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe, known primarily for the music and lyrics of some of Broadway's most successful musicals, including My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Brigadoon.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

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Leslie Caron

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (born 1 July 1931) is a Franco-American actress and dancer who appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003.

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Libertine

A libertine is one devoid of most moral or sexual restraints, which are seen as unnecessary or undesirable, especially one who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour sanctified by the larger society.

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Libretto

A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Louis Jourdan

Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor.

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Mathilde de Morny

Mathilde de Morny (26 May 1863 - 29 June 1944) was a French noblewoman and artist.

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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

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Mime artist

A mime or mime artist (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, "imitator, actor") is a person who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art.

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Mitsou (novella)

Mitsou is the name of a French war-time novella that was published by Colette in 1919.

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Mononymous person

A mononymous person is an individual who is known and addressed by a single name, or mononym.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").

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Palais-Royal

The Palais-Royal, originally called the Palais-Cardinal, is a former royal palace located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Père Lachaise Cemetery

Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise,; formerly,, "Cemetery of the East") is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, although there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs.

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Pen name

A pen name (nom de plume, or literary double) is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their "real" name.

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Rosanne Cash

Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author.

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Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium

The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB) is an association which promotes and organises science and the arts in Belgium by coordinating the national and international activities of its constituent academies such as the National Scientific Committees and the representation of Belgium in international scientific organisations.

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Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye

Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France.

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Sappho

Sappho (Aeolic Greek Ψαπφώ, Psappho; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Last of Chéri

The Last of Chéri (La Fin de Chéri) is a novel written by Colette.

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The Pure and the Impure

The Pure and the Impure (Le Pur et l'impur) is a 1932 novel by the French writer Colette.

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The Vagabond (novel)

The Vagabond (La Vagabonde) is a 1910 novel by the French writer Colette.

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Truman Capote

Truman Garcia Capotehttp://www.biography.com/people/truman-capote-9237547#early-life (born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.

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Yonne

Yonne is a French department named after the river Yonne.

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10 Song Demo

10 Song Demo is a 1996 album by Rosanne Cash, produced by her husband, John Leventhal.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colette

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