biography
| name: |
Colet, Louise
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née Revoil
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pronunciation:
[kolay]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1810–70)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Aix-en-Provence, SE France. The daughter of a businessman, she married a musician, Hippolyte Colet, in 1834. A friend of Madame Récamier, she continued holding her salon after the latter's death, where she met Gustave Flaubert, with whom she began an eight-year liaison. After their estrangement she published a bitter novel, Lui (1859), which caused a sensation. Her poetry included Les fleurs du Midi (1836), Penserosa (1840), and Ce qui est dans le coeur des Femmes (1852). |
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