Judith Gautier: Writer, Orientalist, Musicologist, Feminist, ...
Bettina Liebowitz Knapp
As he watched the handsome young poet Catulle Mendes smoking his cigarette down to the stub, Gautier warned him: "Take care, Catulle, you'll burn your claws" (S. Meyer- Zundel, Quinze ans aupres de Judith Gautier, 65). Catulle Mendes ...