# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-gauthier-villars
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:27:16.880Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-gauthier-villars"
name: "Henry Gauthier-Villars"
slug: "henry-gauthier-villars"
description: "Henry Gauthier-Villars, known by the pen name Willy, was a French fin de siècle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the first husband of Colette. Other pseudonyms used by Gauthiers-Villars are: Henry Maugis, Robert Parville, l’Ex-ouvreuse du Cirque d’été, L’Ouvreuse, L’Ouvreuse du Cirque d’été, Jim Smiley, Henry Willy and Boris Zichine."
tagline: "French writer (1859-1931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henri_Gauthier-Villars_par_Boldini.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1859-08-10"
deathDate: "1931-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.66
  momentum:             6.818181818181819
  historical:           7.751626666666666
  currentAttention:     37.87878787878788
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1129529/"
    handle:    "nm1129529"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/75af3a23-3ebc-4e36-bf79-155d194de222"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%B1_%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "هنرى جاوثير ڤيلارس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gauthier-Villars"
    title: "Henry Gauthier-Villars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gauthier-Villars"
    title: "Henry Gauthier-Villars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gauthier-Villars"
    title: "Henry Gauthier-Villars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Willy (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gauthier-Villars"
    title: "Henry Gauthier-Villars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5-%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Готье-Виллар, Анри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3569141"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2636683"
    title: "Willy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump