Used book – Colette et les siennes, Dominique Bona

August 1914. In a pretty chalet in the 16th arrondissement, Colette, the novelist and famous journalist, gathers her closest friends. There's Marguerite Moreno, the actress; Annie de Pène, the columnist and "almost sister"; Musidora, known as Musi, soon to be cinema's first vamp. These four free women, who wear their hair short and forgo corsets, do not forget the Parisian sky where airships pass, nor their work, nor men. They go towards the one they love, whoever he may be. In the heart of a bloody and wild history, they assert their personality, their friendship, and their insubordination.

A sensitive, nuanced narrative. Hidden worlds emerge. It's fascinating. Marie-Françoise Leclère, Le Point.

Vivid portraits, sense of destinies, refusal of exhaustiveness. An unconventional biography, in the image of its heroines. Marie-Laure Delorme, Le JDD.

The biographer seems to be a special envoy returned from a report. Bernard Morlino, Le Magazine littéraire.