COLET, LOUISE (18101876)

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COLET, LOUISE (18101876) , French poet and novelist, was born at Aix of a Provencal family named Revoil, on the 15th of September 181o. In 1835 she came to Paris with her husband Hippolyte Colet (18081851), a composer of music and professor of harmony and counterpoint at the conservatoire. In 1836 appeared her Fleurs du Midi, a volume of verse, of liberal tendency, followed by Penserosa (1839), a second volume of verse; by La Jeunesse de Goethe (1839), a one-act comedy; by Les Cceurs brises (1843), a novel; Les Funerailles de

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

(1840), a poem, and La Jeunesse de Mirabeau (1841), a novel. Her works were crowned five or six times by the Institute, a distinction which she owed, however, to the influence of

Victor

VICTOR
VICTOR, GAIUS
JULIUS
- JULIUS
(4th cent. A.D.)
VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS

Cousin

COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and
familiar
- FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)
abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
COUSIN, JEAN (1500-1590)
COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

rather than to the quality of her

work

WORK

. The criticisms on her books and on the prizes conferred on her by the

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

exasperated her; and in 1841 Paris was diverted by her attempted reprisals on Alphonse Karr for certain notices in Les Guepes. In 1849 she had to defend an action brought against her by the heirs of Madame Recamier, whose correspondence with Benjamin Constant she had published in the columns of the Presse. She produced a host of writings in

prose

PROSE

and verse, but she is perhaps best known for her intimate connexion with some of her famous contemporaries, Abel

Villemain

VILLEMAIN, ABEL FRANCOIS (179o-1867)

, Gustave Flaubert and

Victor

VICTOR
VICTOR, GAIUS
JULIUS
- JULIUS
(4th cent. A.D.)
VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS

Cousin

COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and
familiar
- FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)
abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
COUSIN, JEAN (1500-1590)
COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

. Only one of her books is now of interestLui: roman contemporain (1859), the novel in which she told the story of her life. She died on the 8th of

March

1876.

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