Jérôme Garcin's Notebook: Colette, from Saint-Tropez to the Palais-Royal

Published on June 30, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.

This summer, read or reread “The Birth of the Day” and “The Blue Lantern” by the great Colette.

It's a literary ritual combined with a healthy lifestyle. Every year, as soon as the first fine days appear and the bright yellow of daffodils, forsythias, and rapeseed flowers appear, I return to dear Colette in her landscape books, to breathe in the intoxicating scent of her fleshy prose, bouquet-like and in relief. She is the only writer who compensates us for winter and prepares us for summer. Her hedonism is contagious, her sensualism…

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