Includes a brief biography of the famous French author, along with links to her contemporaries, and a short review of her career. This informative site also provides the visitor with a comprehensive list of her selected works.

Xrefer: Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette)
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At this site, a beginning researcher may access a short biographical entry on Colette provided by Xrefer, "the web's reference engine providing free access to the web's largest collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and quotations." You'll also find a link to Colette's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

Herstory: Lesbians in the Arts: Colette
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This unique site provides excellent biographical information on the writer, along with a quick overview of the major themes in some of her works. Visit here and you'll also find an intriguing picture of the author, a list of her selected works, and yet another list—of "Other Writers Closely Associated with Paris."

New York Times on the Web: Colette
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/17/specials/colette.html

Click here and you'll find a wealth of information about the author, including many reviews of Colette's books, articles about the author, and related links. The book reviews are the best part of this Web site, and viewers are suggested to peruse these before beginning to read the novels, as the reviews date back to 1929 and can be quite humorous.

BIOGRAPHY
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (b.1893) was born in the village of Saint-Saveur-en Puisaye, Burgundy, the rural setting where many of her novels take place. When she was 20, she was forced to ghostwrite several books for her first husband, Henri Gauthier-Villars. A famous story says he would lock Colette in her room until she had written enough pages. After divorce in 1906 Colette became music hall performer at such places as La Chatte Amoureuse and L'Oiseau de Nuit. Once Colette mimed copulation in a sketch and caused a riot at the Moulin Rouge. She had a protector, a woman known as Missy, who was the niece of Napoleon III, the Marquise de Belboeuf, and managed her public image, as writer, actress, and lesbian. From 1910 to 1922, she worked as a correspondent for the newspaper Le Matin. It was during this time that she gained her reputation as a writer. Her works include The Vagabond (1912), Cheri (1929), The Last of Cheri (1932) and Gigi (1944). In the 1930s Colette was made a member of the Belgian Royal Academy. She was the first woman to be admitted to the prestigious Goncourt Academy. In 1953 she became a grand officer of the Legion of Honour. Colette died on August 3, 1954 in Paris and was accorded a state funeral despite the refusal of Catholic rites on the grounds that she had been divorced. Her funeral was attended by thousands of mourners.