“Must I stay forever
before this impenetrable mirror
where I come up against myself, face to face?”
– Colette
Colette was the pen name
of the French novelist
of the French novelist
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.
(28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954).
She is best known,
in the English-speaking world,
for her novel Gigi, a 1944 novella.
The plot focuses on a young Parisian girl
being groomed for a career as a courtesan
and her relationship with the wealthy, cultured man
who discovers that he is in love with her.