Sidonie Gabrielle, Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye 28.1.1873, +Paris 3.8.1954, frz. Schriftstellerin. C. verfaßte literar. Liebesromane in meisterhaftem Stil mit z.T. autobiograph. Zügen; u.a. 'Mitsou' (1919), 'Chéri' (1920), 'Gigi' (1945).
(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.