Colette's France

French author Colette has a special place in French literary history, her life and writing novels Cheri, Gigli and the Claudine series spanned the renowned artistic period of Belle Epoque Paris, the art scene in the South of France and war time Paris. Her companions were all the great French writers, artists, actors and intellectuals and her life is told against a backdrop and atmosphere of great creativity and style, liberation and rebellion. Colette both wrote about love and lived love to the fullest in the most independent, and often outrageous sense - numerous lovers, several marriages, a lesbian affair, and an affair with her seventeen year old stepson. Colette's France reveals too her deep and personal love of France and the natural world. This book is an illustrated biography of French writer, Colette, told through the locations in France where she lived, worked and loved. Her lively life story moves along through her many different relationships and homes - from a childhood in Burgundy, to Paris of the Belle Epoque, Britanny to Provence and more. Beautiful photographs and illustrations bring her story alive and evoke the style and fashion of the times.