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[email protected]. obert Cottrell has suggested subjects taken from nature, her readers came to that "for Colette as for most know and love her primarily for her lyrical portraits women writers of her times, of plants and animals. According to Marine Ram- nature was a garden, an bach, Colette's critics, "surtout dans la premiere enclosure that approximat- moitie du siecle, a mis I'accent sur les sujets bucol- ed a room of her own" in iques et campagnards" (24).' On the one hand, gen- that it provided a refuge der stereotypes help explain the popularity of writ- from Parisian society and ers such as Colette at the turn of the last century from the "hypocrisy of men" (9).