Colette. With Charlotte Casiraghi, Clémence Poésy and Emmanuelle Lambert — CHANEL and Literature


For this fifteenth edition of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon] that was held at the 7L library in Paris, CHANEL and Charlotte Casiraghi, ambassador and spokesperson for the House, invited writer Emmanuelle Lambert to pay tribute to Colette, along with actress and friend of the House Clémence Poésy.

Moderated by journalist Olivia Gesbert, this encounter dedicated to the work of Colette considers the writer’s path towards emancipation, the way she constantly reinvented herself throughout her life, and her intrinsically linked relationship with writing and nature.

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00:00 : Reading of an extract from ‘Toby-Chien Parle’
00:32 : Introduction by Charlotte Casiraghi
01:45 : Presentation of Colette
02:33 : Colette’s determination
04:38 : Her quest for independance
05:17 : Colette, contemporary of Virginia Woolf
06:11 : The evolution of her writing, mirroring her lives
07:09 : The links between Gabrielle Chanel and Colette
09:09 : Colette’s relationship with old age
09:33 : Reading of an extract from ‘The Tendrils of the Vine’
10:45 : Colette’s relationship with time and writing
11:25 : Nature, a lost paradise
13:00 : Colette, a pioneering feminine figure
13:17 : Why Colette’s work is still admirable today   

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