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COLET, LOUISE (1810–1876)

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COLET, See also:LOUISE (1810–1876) , See also:French poet and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Aix of a Provencal See also:family named Revoil, on the 15th of See also:September 181o. In 1835 she came to See also:Paris with her See also:husband Hippolyte Colet (1808–1851), a composer of See also:music and See also:professor of See also:harmony and See also:counterpoint at the See also:conservatoire. In 1836 appeared her Fleurs du Midi, a See also:volume of See also:verse, of liberal tendency, followed by Penserosa (1839), a second volume of verse; by La Jeunesse de See also:Goethe (1839), a one-See also:act See also:comedy; by See also:Les Cceurs brises (1843), a novel; Les Funerailles de See also:Napoleon (1840), a poem, and La Jeunesse de See also:Mirabeau (1841), a novel. Her See also:works were crowned five or six times by the See also:Institute, a distinction which she owed, however, to the See also:influence of See also:Victor See also:Cousin rather than to the quality of her See also:work. The criticisms on her books and on the prizes conferred on her by the See also:Academy exasperated her; and in 1841 Paris was diverted by her attempted See also:reprisals on See also:Alphonse See also:Karr for certain notices in Les Guepes. In 1849 she had to defend an See also:action brought against her by the heirs of Madame See also:Recamier, whose See also:correspondence with See also:Benjamin See also:Constant she had published in the columns of the Presse. She produced a See also:host of writings in See also:prose and verse, but she is perhaps best known for her intimate connexion with some of her famous contemporaries, See also:Abel See also:Villemain, Gustave See also:Flaubert and Victor Cousin. Only one of her books is now of interest—Lui: See also:roman contemporain (1859), the novel in which she told the See also:story of her See also:life. She died on the 8th of See also:March 1876.

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