Colette was born in 1873 in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye (France). His first foray into literature was made with the Claudine series, under the yoke and the signing of her first husband, Willy, publicist much in vogue at the time and he is now only remembered for having been married to her.
Colette independent literary career began in 1918, and divorced. He married a second time with Henri de Jouvenel, the editor of the newspaper Le Matin, where she worked for a while, diplomat and politician who had (forty years) his only daughter.
She divorced a second time, remarried at sixty-two years Goudeket Maurice, much younger than her.
Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, a member of the Goncourt Academy, twice awarded the Legion of Honor, author of over fifty novels, stories, memories and numerous articles, Colette died in Paris in 1954.