Cahier Colette Herne

 I thank so much les Editions de L'Herne for the Cahier Colette

edited by Gérard Bonal and Fréderic Maget accompanied by Paris, Je t'aime for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Colette, a super-woman and the first modern influencer considering that she created a brand of beauty products and that, with the time thanks to the fame she had, a lot of magazines searched for her for writing on the most diversified themes involving the world of women.

But...Who was Colette? 

A lady pretty researched terminologically in particular when she wrote a piece for a magazine, while, differently, someone incredibly warm and close and friendly, adorably intense and participant when she corresponded with someone she loved, plenty of attentions and advices. 

Colette was born in Provence but later left for Paris, without never forget the place where she was born in. 

In a series of articles she wrote on her past Christmases we can see melancholy and at the same time beauty memories of her homeland. And it is not wrong to write this, Colette became Colette also thanks to the place where she was born.

Journalist, writer, but also promoters of beauty products, modern in the way she saw sexuality, and feminism as well. Her idea wasn't the one of common feminists. She thought that feminism had to be lived in a daily base.

Colette appreciated actors and actresses a lot: there is a special chapter in the book, dedicated to her impressions on them. I pick up what she wrote on Bette Davis. Colette thought that she was the biggest actress: she didn't have any kind of competitors in grade to surpass her talent and her magic.

Colette has been a reporter as well for daily magazines dedicated to women or prestigious magazine for women like Vogue. She became a good reporter and during the war afforded  in Italy, it was 1915, where she interviewed prince of Hohenzollern and after the war she went to New York. Remarkable her pieces on judiciary cases. 

Colette didn't love to travel, or better, she complained in particular when she spent a lot of time in Italy and she missed her daily routine and her objects, and home. 

When the illness blocked her and she found peace and joy at Palays-Royal, she continued to write, observing nature, people, flowers, life in a word, spending time looking outside the window of her home. After all it's the idea that she has of a reporter: someone who lives motionless, observing the reality close to him/her. 

It was simple to find for Colette curiosities and beauty in a daily life: the joy of children, blooming flowers, good weather, animals: the miracle of beauty that we can see in everyday life. Under many ways we could write that what did Colette was taking pictures written of a microcosm in these cases.

Beautiful cahier, please read my review of Paris, Je t'Aime, here:

https://alfemminile.blogspot.com/2022/02/paris-je-taime-by-colette.html 

Anna Maria Polidori