January 28 will mark the 150th anniversary of Colette’s birth. Writer, music hall star, journalist, first woman to receive a national funeral in France, whose sulphurous love life has caused a lot of ink to flow… Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, known as Colette, is a feminist icon before her time. .
Emmanuelle Lambert draws his literary portrait illustrated by photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Gisèle Freund, Lee Miller and Irving Penn among others. She invites us to reread the work and life of an icon, one of the greatest stylists of the last century.
Guest: Emmanuelle LAMBERT, writer. She is the author, among other things, of a novel, The Desertion (Stock, 2018), and a literary essay, Giono, furious (Stock, 2019), crowned with the Femina essay prize in 2019.
His book Sidonie Gabrielle Colette is published by Gallimard.