When Levy describes French author Colette as “glamorous, serious, intellectual, playful”, she’s envisaging Colette as proto-punk, whirlwind DIY-er. “She was a working writer who had a ...

Whatever the causes of French erotic self-admiration, the novelist Colette (born 1873, died 1954) set out to embody and propagandise it. This pretty woman with the triangular face and pert, knowing ...

Josephine Baker, trailblazing performer and civil rights activist, published her memoir, 'Fearless and Free,' in 1949. Now, the book is being released in the United States for the first time on Feb 4.

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Critic-turned-novelist Jonathan Meades on the strangeness of Starmer, poor policing and his drastic cure for London’s ills ...

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"Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant," wrote the French novelist Honoré de Balzac ... laced pecorino and Roquefort. Colette, the queen and original of Paris's ...

Born in 1929 in Ixelles, Belgium, Audrey Hepburn grew up to be one of the world’s leading actresses and fashion … Continue ...

The late Miss Jean De Koven was an average American tourist in Paris but for two exceptions. She never set foot in the Opéra, and she was murdered. In the first four July days of her initial ...