Georgie Raoul-Duval

Georgie Raoul-Duval (born Jeannie Urquhart 3 July 1866 Paris - died 3 November 1913 Paris) was an American writer. She was born in France during one of the frequent travels of New Orleans merchant David Urquhart and his wife Augusta. She is mainly remembered for having been the lover first of Colette from March 1901 and then also Colette's husband Henry Gauthier-Villars, and finally both of them, as detailed in a Paris police report of 1 May 1901.[1] Colette portrayed her as the Austrian girl Rézi in Claudine en ménage, the third episode of her Claudine series, which Georgie tried to prevent being published. Colette caricatured her again as Suzy in La Retraite sentimentale 1907. Georgie went on to have affairs with Marie de Hérédia (wife of Henri de Régnier and mistress of Pierre Louÿs) and then José Maria Sert and Catherine Pozzi. In 1905 she began her career as a writer with a play which her sister Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter produced but which was unsuccessful.

Books
  • George Daring, play, The Golden Light,
  • G.R. Duval, Shadows of old Paris, London, F. Griffiths, 1910, 242 p.
  • G.R. Duval, Written in the sand, London, W. J. Ham-Smith, 1912, 320 p.
  • G.R. Duval, Little Miss, an unfinished story, Edinburgh, Ballantyne press, 1914, 265 p.

References
  1. 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"
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