# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colette
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:11:37.703Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/colette"
name: "Colette"
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description: "She wrote under her husband's name until she took it back — and kept writing. Colette's novels unpacked desire and independence decades before the culture caught up, and Gigi became the work that outlasted them all."
tagline: "French novelist (1873–1954)"
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birthDate: "1873-01-28"
deathDate: "1954-08-03"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born 28 January 1873 in France and built her career across multiple lanes: novelist, mime, actress, journalist. Early on she published under "Colette Willy," her husband's surname, before claiming the single name that stuck. Her 1944 novella Gigi gave her lasting reach beyond France — it became a 1958 film and a 1973 stage production. In France, her short story collection The Tendrils of the Vine held its own ground. She died 3 August 1954, having spent decades writing about women, appetites, and the terms of freedom.