Word: gauthier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Eva Gauthier, 73, concert mezzo-soprano, niece of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's first French-Canadian Prime Minister; in Manhattan...
...SYDNEY GAUTHIER Swampscott, Mass...
When Henry Gauthier-Villars, known in Paris literary circles as plain "Willy," met little Gabrielle Colette in Châtillon-Coligny, he was "completely stunned" by the sight of her long, braided hair and "airy grace." At their wedding dinner in 1893, 20-year-old Colette drank too much champagne and fell fast asleep over the table. "As I woke up, I heard my husband's voice...
Died. Sidonie-Gabrielle Claudine Co lette Gauthier-Villars de Jouvenel Goudeket (Colette), 81, called by Poet Paul Claudel "the greatest living writer in France" (Cheri, Gigi); of a heart ailment; in Paris. At 20, Colette married Henri Gauthier-Villars, a potboiling hack who won fame by publishing under his own name the novels he forced her to turn out, in turn did much to teach her a style as ruthlessly chaste as her heroines were unchaste. Colette depicted quietly desperate women in love and in bed, became the most honored female writer in France's history, first woman president...
...Henry Gauthier-Villars, known to all France at the turn of the century by his simple pseudonym, "Willy," was regarded as the most prolific hack-writer of his day. His admirers marveled that one man could produce such a torrent of puff-pastry fiction, dramatizations, music and theater criticism, and racy personal history. Actually, Willy did nothing of the sort. He employed hacks to do his hacking; he was squire of an estate of sharecropping "ghosts...