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