WRITER

Colette

1873 - 1954

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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (French: [sidɔni ɡabʁijɛl kɔlɛt]; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Colette has received more than 4,065,638 page views. Her biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Colette is the 294th most popular writer (down from 208th in 2019), the 330th most popular biography from France (down from 246th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular French Writer.

Colette is most famous for her novel "Claudine's Education" which was published in 1900.

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  • 4.1M

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  • 74.73

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  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Colette ranks 294 out of 7,302. Before her are Marcus Terentius Varro, Gerhart Hauptmann, Emily Dickinson, Arthur C. Clarke, Pearl S. Buck, and Carl Spitteler. After her are Sayyid Qutb, Anne Brontë, Jon Fosse, Heinrich von Kleist, Claude Simon, and Lucan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Colette ranks 5. Before her are Sergei Rachmaninoff, Thérèse of Lisieux, Enrico Caruso, and Johannes V. Jensen. After her are Konstantin von Neurath, Jules Rimet, Alexis Carrel, Thomas Andrews, Luigi Lucheni, Henri Barbusse, and Alfred Jarry. Among people deceased in 1954, Colette ranks 8. Before her are Henri Matisse, Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi, Heinz Guderian, Robert Capa, and Princess Märtha of Sweden. After her are Getúlio Vargas, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Alcide De Gasperi, André Derain, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Otto Diels.

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In France

Among people born in France, Colette ranks 330 out of 6,770. Before her are Georges de La Tour (1593), Paul Valéry (1871), Elisabeth of Valois (1545), Anne of Brittany (1477), Josquin des Prez (1450), and Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1275). After her are Luc Montagnier (1932), Louis VI of France (1081), François Couperin (1668), Sophie Germain (1776), Nadar (1820), and Pierre Beaumarchais (1732).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Colette ranks 52. Before her are Germaine de Staël (1766), François Mauriac (1885), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), Alphonse Daudet (1840), and Paul Valéry (1871). After her are Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), Antonin Artaud (1896), Françoise Sagan (1935), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), and Guillaume de Machaut (1300).

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