Novelist and critic. Known primarily by the pen name "Willy," he was born in Villiers-sur-Orge and educated at the Lycée Condorcet and the Collège Stanislas in Paris before beginning his literary career. He produced numerous sonnets, essays, plays and reviews, but is best known for his "Claudine" series of novels, co-authored with his first wife Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette between 1900 and 1903.Henry Gauthier-Villars or Willy, his nom-de-plume, was a French fin-de-siecle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the mentor and first husband of Colette. Other pseudonyms used by Gauthiers-Villars are: Henry Maugis, Robert Parville, l'Ex-ouvreuse du Cirque d'été, L'Ouvreuse, L'Ouvreuse du Cirque d'été, Jim Smiley, Henry Willy, Boris Zichine.
Novelist and critic. Known primarily by the pen name "Willy," he was born in Villiers-sur-Orge and educated at the Lycée Condorcet and the Collège Stanislas in Paris before beginning his literary career. He produced numerous sonnets, essays, plays and reviews, but is best known for his "Claudine" series of novels, co-authored with his first wife Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette between 1900 and 1903.Henry Gauthier-Villars or Willy, his nom-de-plume, was a French fin-de-siecle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the mentor and first husband of Colette. Other pseudonyms used by Gauthiers-Villars are: Henry Maugis, Robert Parville, l'Ex-ouvreuse du Cirque d'été, L'Ouvreuse, L'Ouvreuse du Cirque d'été, Jim Smiley, Henry Willy, Boris Zichine.
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