Excerpt from La Neuvaine de Colette It is related of the first one, Colette, that it was written as a pastime, and accepted anonymously by the Revue des Demo Mondes, * in which it was first published. Its popularity was marked at the outset and has steadily grown. But not until Mlle. Schultz was facing the risk of seeing the credit of her Work appropriated by one or more other writers, who seemed disposed to acquiesce in the authorship of Colette as ascribed to them by the guessing pub lic, did she come forward in her true name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.