Three pocket books advised by François Angelier: Colette in the spotlight

Ce 1^is Januaryin the company of Matisse, of which she has the taste of the bodies and the warmth of tons, and of Frida Kahlo, woman-fanal like her, Colette (1873-1954) entered the public domain. The good deal: she had already been there for over a century and has never been out, a popular silhouette at populous work! And to titles so diverse that we should write “Colettes”. Between Willy’s shift broaching her four Claudine in the darkness and president of the Goncourt Academy; The Mimodrama, mistress of Mathilde de Morny, delivering a sapphic kiss on the Moulin-Rouge scene; The lover of Bertrand de Jouvenel, 17, his stepson; the dramatic columnist and the friend of the restaurateur Raymond Oliver creates a “Dark and deep unity, vast as night and like clarity” (Baudelaire), of which it is precious to decline, petal after petal, text according to text, diversity.

With Pure and impure, Two capital letters, please, published in 1941 with Calmann-Lévy, it is the Colette “bad genres” which makes us the honors of her freedom of being and her double-beating loves: “The truthful mental hermaphrodism which loads certain strongly organized beings. »» Following him, from room to piece, we go from a smoking smoking, where the pleasures are not only smoked, the confidences of an old Don Juan, delivered one evening in an off casino. Close the ban a very moving couple, prelude to gay studiesthat formed by “the ladies of Llangollen”, lesbians of the XIX^e British century sheltering their loves and gardening in the bucolic folds of Eden in Wales. The darkest and most capitous moment of this gold letters album, connected in goat leather, remains at night, in Neuilly, at Renée Vivien, Hétaïre Belle Epoque and collector of giant Buddhas costume in white. Extraordinary parade of prohibited desires and artificial ecstasies.

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