COLETTE extols the charms and sweetness of St Tropez.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette , known as COLETTE (1873.1954)

Autograph letter signed to Hélène and Philippe Berthelot.

Two pages in-4° on blue paper at his address at 69 bd Suchet. Slnd.

“I have just come from St Tropez: it is impossible that you will not come, one day, to live there. »

Colette praises the charms of St Tropez to her Berthelot friends and brings Philippe a cat portrait that she had promised him.

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“Dear Hélène and Philippe,  I have just come from St Tropez: it cannot be that you will not come, one day, to live there. Isn’t it worth Plessis-Macé? Can we talk. I brought back the portrait of the cat that I promised to Philippe , I will drop it off with you as soon as I get my nose out of a pile of paper, entirely disgusting in fact. But maybe I'll see you this evening at Marivaux-Douglas? Thank God you are frivolous! I love and kiss you both. Colette. »

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There is no need to further develop Colette's love for cats. Let us simply note that Philippe Berthelot offered him, in 1921, a female serval from Chad, named Bâ-Tou.

Colette and her husband Henry de Jouvenel moved into a small private mansion, at 69 bd Suchet, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, in November 1916. After their breakup and the departure of her ex-husband, Colette lived there until December 1926.