1873-1954. French writer. At 20 she married
Henri Gauthier-Villars, a journalist known as
`Willy' and under whose name and direction
her four `Claudine' novels, based on her own
early life, were written. Divorced in 1906,
she worked as a striptease and mime artist
for a while, but continued to write. Works
from this later period include Cheri 1920, La
Fin de Cheri/The End of Cheri 1926, and Gigi
1944.