COLETTE: (1873-1954) French author, best known for her novella Gigi (1944). Autograph Manuscript signed, Colette, three pages (separate leaves), 4to, n.p., n.d., in French. The working manuscript, with various deletions and corrections, is entitled Perruche bleue ('Blue Parakeet') and is the story of a lady who has lost her dog and whose husband, to console his wife, buys her a blue parakeet, in part, 'Je ne veux pas un chien, je veux un bouledogue; un bouledogue avec un oeil ici et un oeil la, tres loin l'un de l'autre; avec un front de penseur, pas de nez ou si peu, le cou bien epais......enfin un bouledogue!......son mari partit pour Paris......Il posa son colis et deboucla l'enveloppe de toile. Sous un rayon de soleil apparut, debout sur un barreau de la cage, une perruche bleue....' (Translation: 'I don't want a dog, I want a bulldog; a bulldog with one eye here and one eye there, very far apart; with a thinker's forehead, no or very little nose, a very thick neck…..finally a bulldog!......Her husband left for Paris…..He put down his package and unbuckled the canvas envelope. Under a ray of sunshine appeared, standing on a bar of the cage, a blue parakeet…..'). Signed by Colette at the conclusion. Some light overall age wear and a few small pinholes to the upper left corner of each page. About VG