And in 1951, Audry directed a film adaptation of that novel.ġ The wonder persists: this is-among many other things-lesbianism without tears. Also in 1949, an 84-year-old Englishwoman, the translator and confidante of André Gide, published her only novel: Olivia, by “Olivia” ( Dorothy Bussy ), inspired by her teenage years at Les Ruches, a girls’ school near Fontainebleau. It was a critical and popular success, one of the top ten films of the year, establishing Audry as a bankable (and the only recognized female) French director. In 1949, Gigi was brought to the screen by a young woman, Jacqueline Audry (with the godmotherly approval of its author). In France, it established a literary type-the frank, quixotically sensual and romantic young girl-that Colette reproduced, in increasingly edulcorated versions, under her husband’s name, and triumphantly revived under her own to cheer the gray final days of the Occupation (while retaining the Belle Époque setting), as Gigi. PUBLISHED in 1900, Colette’s novel was a zeitgeist-permeating success (to this day, a round collar on a blouse or jacket is a col Claudine ), and has never gone out of print. “My name is Claudine, I live in Montigny I was born there in 1884. (With grace triumphant, mild/And strange, you go your way, majestic child.) -Charles Baudelaire, “Le beau navire” D’un air placide et triumphant/Tu passes ton chemin, majestueuse enfant.
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