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'''Jeannie Urquhart''' or '''Georgie Raoul-Duval''' (3 July 1866 – 3 November 1913) was an American writer, playwright, and socialite.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Bowen |first=Peter |title=Who's Who in Colette |url=https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/editorial/whos-who-in-colette |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=Bleecker Street Media |language=en}}</ref> She is mainly remembered for having been in a ménage-a-trois with [[Colette]] and Colette's husband [[Henry Gauthier-Villars]].<ref name=":0">Michèle Sarde ''Colette: Free and Fettered'' 1980 p 167 "Colette and Willy had described an episode in their private life involving a certain Georgie Raoul-Duval"</ref> |
'''Jeannie Urquhart''' or '''Georgie Raoul-Duval''' (3 July 1866 – 3 November 1913) was an American writer, playwright, and socialite.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Bowen |first=Peter |title=Who's Who in Colette |url=https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/editorial/whos-who-in-colette |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=Bleecker Street Media |language=en}}</ref> She is mainly remembered for having been in a ménage-a-trois with [[Colette]] and Colette's husband [[Henry Gauthier-Villars]].<ref name=":0">Michèle Sarde ''Colette: Free and Fettered'' 1980 p 167 "Colette and Willy had described an episode in their private life involving a certain Georgie Raoul-Duval"</ref> |
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Jeannie Urquhart or Georgie Raoul-Duval (3 July 1866 – 3 November 1913) was an American writer, playwright, and socialite.[1] She is mainly remembered for having been in a ménage-a-trois with Colette and Colette's husband Henry Gauthier-Villars.[2]
Early life
Urquhart was born in France during one of the frequent travels of New Orleans merchant David Urquhart and his wife Augusta.[1] She was educated in France.[1]
Career
In 1905, Urquhart began her career as a playwright, using the pen name George Darling.[1] Her sister, actress Cora Urquhart Brown–Potter, produced and acted in her play, The Golden Light, at the Savoy Theatre in London in 1905.[3] However, the production not successful and closed in a few days.[1]
Using the pen name G. R. Duval, she published three books: Shadows of Old Paris in 1910, Written in the Sand in 1912, and Little Miss, An Unfinished Story in 1914.
Personal life
Urquhart married René Raoul-Duval, heir to a large industrial and mining fortune, in 1891.[1] The couple had a house in Paris.[1] She was a "fixture" in Paris' artistic salons, frequenting them while her husband was away on business.[1]
Starting in March 1901, she started an affair with Colette.[2][1] She then also became the lover of Colette's husband Henry Gauthier-Villars.[2] Neither of her lovers knew about each other.[1] Finally, she was the lover of both of them, as detailed in a Paris police report of 1 May 1901.[2] Although Urquhart tried to stop the book from being published for fear of scandal, Colette thinly fictionalized Urquhart as Rézi in Claudine en ménage (Claudine Married) in 1902.[1] Urquhart also appeared as Suzy in Colette's La Retraite sentimentale.
Urquhart on to have affairs with Marie de Hérédia (wife of Henri de Régnier and mistress of Pierre Louÿs), and then with José Maria Sert and Catherine Pozzi.
In 1913, she died in Paris at the age of 47.[1]
Popular culture
- Colette fictionalized George Raoul-Duvawent as the Austrian girl Rézi in Claudine en ménage, the third episode of her Claudine series.[1]
- Colette caricatured George Raoul-Duvawent again as Suzy in La Retraite sentimentale in 1907.
- She was played by Eleanor Tomlinson in the 2018 film Colette.[1]
Publications
Plays
- Daring, George. The Golden Light, 1905[1]
Novels
- G.R. Duval. Shadows of Old Paris. London: F. Griffiths, 1910
- — Written in the Sand. London: W. J. Ham-Smith, 1912
- — Little Miss, An Unfinished Story. Edinburgh: Ballantyne Press, 1914
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Bowen, Peter. "Who's Who in Colette". Bleecker Street Media. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ a b c d Michèle Sarde Colette: Free and Fettered 1980 p 167 "Colette and Willy had described an episode in their private life involving a certain Georgie Raoul-Duval"
- ^ "Mrs Brown Potter (1857-1936)". Stage Beauty. Retrieved August 19, 2022.
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