Elisabeth Galos Houdetot
1841–1925
Biography
Élisabeth Galos, countess de Houdetot, was a French woman of letters who lived from 1841 to 1925. She was born in Paris and died in Bordeaux. Her married name ties her to the Houdetot family of the French nobility.
The surviving information about her is brief. The French Wikipedia article gives her birth and death details and describes her as a writer, and no English or Swedish article was found to add to it. Anyone who wants to know more should look in French biographical dictionaries and library catalogues.
The site holds Les Mémoires d'un Parapluie, whose title promises the memoirs of an umbrella. It is the book readers can come to here, and it is the only one of her works this page can name.
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Books
Les Mémoires d'un Parapluie
by Elisabeth Galos Houdetot
An umbrella tells its own life story, from its first days in a shop to the many hands it passes through: raffled at a party, stolen, pawned, and carried into rich homes and poor garrets. Through its owners, the Comtesse de Houdetot draws a gentle moral portrait of French…
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.