Judith Gautier was a French

French people

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 poet and historical novelist, the daughter of Théophile Gautier

Théophile Gautier

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic....

 and Ernesta Grisi, sister of the noted singer and ballet dancer Carlotta Grisi

Carlotta Grisi

Carlotta Grisi, real name Caronne Adele Josephine Marie Grisi was an Italian ballet dancer born in Visinada, Istria . She was trained at the ballet school of Teatro alla Scala in Milan and later with dancer/balletmaster Jules Perrot...

. She was married to Catulle Mendès

Catulle Mendès

Catulle Mendès was a French poet and man of letters.Of Portuguese Jewish extraction, he was born in Bordeaux. He early established himself in Paris and promptly attained notoriety by the publication in the Revue fantaisiste of his Roman d'une nuit, for which he was condemned to a month's...

, but soon separated from him, had a brief affair with the composer Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

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 during the late summer of 1876; then married Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti was a French novelist and naval officer.-Biography:Loti's education began in his birthplace, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime. At the age of seventeen he entered the naval school in Brest and studied at Le Borda. He gradually rose in his profession, attaining the rank of captain in 1906...

, the famous novelist, in 1913, with whom she had collaborated in a play

Play (theatre)

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, La fille du ciel (1912; English, "The Daughter of Heaven"), translated and produced under their personal supervision at The New Theatre

Century Theatre

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, New York City

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. (This is a stitch, so I will leave it in. Gautier did indeed collaborate with Loti on La fille du ciel, but long distance. She most certainly never married Loti, which was certainly to her benefit. Loti was married from 1886 to his death in 1923 to Blanche de la Ferrière, and it was not a happy marriage. Blanche finally gave up on it and moved back to her home town in 1908, though she never bothered to divorce Loti.) She was an Oriental scholar and her works dealt mainly with Chinese

China

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 and Japanese

Japan

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 themes. She was a member of the Académie Goncourt

Académie Goncourt

The Société littéraire des Goncourt , usually called the académie Goncourt , is a French literary organization based in Paris. It was founded by the French writer and publisher Edmond de Goncourt...

(1910–1917|. Among her works are:

• Le dragon impérial (1869)
• L'Usurpateur (1875)
• Les princesses d'amours (Paris, 1900)
• Le collier des jours (Paris, 1902)

Publication

Le Japon et la chine dans les oeuvres de Judith Gautier + Poeme de la libellule, Facsimile Reprint of 13 books in 6 volumes, edited by Brigitte Koyama-Richard (ISBN 978-4-86166-037-5)
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