Louise Colet

Louise Colet

Louise Colet (August 15 1810 – March 9 1876), born Louise Revoil, was a poet born in Aix-en-Provence in France. In her twenties she married Hippolyte Colet, an academic musician, partly in order to escape provincial life and live in Paris.

Upon arrival in Paris, Colet began to submit her work for approval and publication and soon won a two-thousand-franc prize from the Académie française, the first of four prizes won from the Académie. Today critics claim she won the prizes, not by merit, but through the influence of friends. At her salon she associated with many of her contemporaries in the Parisian literary community, such as Victor Hugo.

In 1840 she gave birth to her daughter Henriette, but neither her husband nor her lover, Victor Cousin, would acknowledge paternity. Later she became the paramour of Gustave Flaubert, Alfred de Musset, and Abel Villemain. After her husband died, Colet supported herself and her daughter with her writing.

Her brother was painter Pierre Révoil.Louise Colet died in Paris.

Writings of Louise Colet

*"Fleurs du midi" (1836)
*"Penserosa" (1839)
*"La Jeunesse de Goethe" (1839)
*"Les Coeurs brisés" (1843)
*"Les Funérailles de Napoléon" (1840)
*"La Jeunesse de Mirabeau" (1841)
*"Lui" (1859)
*"Enfances Célèbres" (1865)

Texts online (in French)

* [http://www.bmlisieux.com/archives/quiestel.htm "Qui est-elle ?"] (1842)
* [http://www.bmlisieux.com/archives/colet001.htm "Diane, fragment d'un roman inédit"] (ca 1850)
* [http://www.bmlisieux.com/curiosa/colet001.htm "L'Institutrice"] (1840).
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20703 "Enfances célèbres"]

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2531 Find-A-Grave profile for Louise Colet]


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