Colette

La Chatte is a short novel by French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Released in 1933, the book tells of a love triangle involving Camille Malmert, her husband Alain Amparat and his Chartreux cat Saha. Camille loves Alain, but Alain loves his cat, whom he has had from childhood, more than he could love any woman. …

Gigi is een roman uit 1944 die geschreven werd door de Franse schrijfster Colette. Het boek is tweemaal verfilmd en verder is het verhaal verwerkt tot musical. Gigi, Franse film van Jacqueline Audry, Gigi, Amerikaanse film van Vincente Minnelli.

Colette began writing Break of Day in her early fifties, at Saint-Tropez on the Côte d'Azur, where she had bought a small house after the breakup of her second marriage. The novel's theme--the renunciation of love and the return to an independent existence supported and enriched by the beauty and peace of …