After The 7 lives of Colette (Flammarion, 2019), Frédéric Maget, a great specialist in the work of the essential French woman of letters, offers 10 portraits of this wonderful lover of nature and animals by as many readers, some famous, others unknown. Having devoted himself to an admirable monastic work, which is reminiscent of that of the journalist Geneviève Dormann, to whom we owe the remarkable biography In love Colette (Herscher, 1984), the author thus revives Colette at various ages in her life, but also the women whose existence she marked, from a distance or in private, through the very words of the novelist and his readers. Thus we find the de Beauvoirs, Duras and Sagan in their youth, an Audrey Hepburn at the start of their career, a Marilyn Monroe shrouded in mystery, her daughter, Colette de Jouvenel, somewhat bitter… The result is 10 singular stories united by the essence of the sensual author of Claudineof budding wheat and of the wanderer.
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