After divorcing her husband, a cruel and dissolute man, in 1906, Colette, already a published author, turned to the stage as a steady means of income. She "began dancing and singing in Parisian music halls, from La Chatte Amoureuse toL'Oiseau de Nuit."
"[The solitude and]... freedom, of my pleasant and painful work as mime and dancer,” Colette wrote years later, "[was] by way of a change from.... the new anxiety about earning my meals, my clothes, and my rent -- [as] such, all of a sudden, was my lot. But with it too went a savage defiance, a disgust for the milieu where I had lived and suffered, a stupid fear of man, of men, and of women too.”
We got this picture from Flavorwire. It is from her "nightclub mime show in which she portrayed her favorite animal."
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