“Et mon front couronné s’appuie au front du Temps” Louise Colet’s poetic trajectory

Best known for her biography, which is intimately linked to the writers of her time, Louise Colet was a prolific author who made a name for herself in every genre after starting out in poetry. Alongside the long poems that earned her academic glory, there are collections spanning the period between her youth and maturity that bear witness to a plurality of sources of inspiration and, above all, a thematic intertwining that combines intimate elegy and socially-engaged poetry, directly attuned to current political events.