{"id":2496,"date":"2013-07-03T15:19:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T19:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2013-07-03T15:19:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T19:19:26","slug":"colettes-mes-apprentissages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2013\/07\/03\/colettes-mes-apprentissages\/","title":{"rendered":"Colette’s Mes apprentissages"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.<\/em><\/p>\n

The novelist and music-hall performer Colette (1873-1954; full name Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) is known both for her literary work \u2013 principally the novel Gigi<\/em> \u2013 and her love affairs with men, women, and in one case, her own stepson. Mes apprentissages<\/em>, published in 1936, is one of several autobiographical works in which Colette recounts her fascinating life; specifically, this volume deals with her first marriage, to Henry Gauthier-Villars, known as \u201cWilly\u201d. Gauthier-Villars was a writer and critic who acted as Colette\u2019s mentor; her first several novels were first published under his name. Mes apprentissages<\/em> excoriates Gauthier-Villars as controlling, patronizing, and unfaithful.<\/p>\n

While this copy of Mes apprentissages<\/em> is one of a limited number on Holland paper and is handsomely bound in morocco and marbled paper by Alain Devauchelle, it is most remarkable for containing several pieces of manuscript correspondence written by Colette to various parties. These include two letters to Pierre Lou\u00ffs, a French writer who dealt unabashedly in erotic, and particularly lesbian, themes; and a postcard to \u00c9milie Marie Bouchaud, an actress who worked under the stage name Polaire. Polaire\u2019s breakthrough role was in the title role of a play based on Colette\u2019s Claudine \u00e0 Paris<\/em>, produced during Colette\u2019s marriage to Gauthier-Villars.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n

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Colette. Mes apprentissages<\/em>:\u00a0ce que Claudine n’a pas dit<\/em>.\u00a0[Paris]: Ferenczi, c1936. FC9.C6796.936m<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to rare book ca<\/em>taloger Ryan Wheeler for contributing this post.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The novelist and music-hall performer Colette (1873-1954; full name Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) is known both for her literary work \u2013 principally the novel Gigi \u2013 and her love affairs with men, women, and in one case, her own stepson. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-Eg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}