“Colette is one of the greatest French writers of the XXe century, and I get angry with anyone who says the opposite”, exclaims Daniel-Henri Vincent, honorary president of the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Belles Lettres of Dijon, former regional director of cultural affairs, and who was a long-time administrator of the Society of Friends of Colette.
As we approach the celebration of the 150e anniversary of the birth of the Burgundian author (born January 28, 1873), this erudite Dijonnais had noted that the mere attribution of his name to a school in Fontaine-d’Ouche “was not up to the mark” of the dimension of the woman of letters. This is why an approach has been…