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Created on the initiative of her daughter, Colette Renée de Jouvenel, and opened in 1995, the Colette Museum has French museum status. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, the famous author, was born in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye in 1873.
The museum dedicated to her in the heart of her native village is housed in the château, rebuilt in the 17th century. Although she never stayed there, Colette mentioned it at the beginning of her first novel, Claudine à l'école: "Montigny [...] is a staircase below a...