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Originally Posted by awkwardlyyours
Btw, this reminds me, I’ve been meaning to ask — Piaf gave you a whole bunch of German writers but when it came to her own countrymen, she only gave you Maupassant if I remember right (who I remember reading a whole lot of as a child — pretty famous in the motherland along with O.Henry) but not the much much better writer (in my utterly useless opinion) Colette?
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She went to university in Germany, which I assume is where she picked all those up.
Besides Maupassant the only French literature she mentions (several times so far) is 17th-century French drama.
I’ve never read Colette. Though I’ve heard “there are no ordinary cats.”