The Birthplace of Colette

Colette was born on January 28, 1873, in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, in the family home located at 8 rue de l’Hospice (now rue Colette).
She spent a happy childhood and adolescence there, surrounded by loving parents, her sister—the enigmatic Juliette—and her two brothers, Achille and Léo, whom she affectionately called “the savages” and later portrayed in moving literary sketches.
It was in this house and its gardens (Jardin-du-Haut and Jardin-du-Bas), alongside her mother Sido, that she developed her deep love for nature and animals, as well as the keen sense of observation that would become a hallmark of her writing