The Vagabond | Characters
All of the central characters in The Vagabond were fashioned after people whom Colette knew. Renee Nere is Colette herself, although she bears some resemblance to the poetess, Renee Vivien, who wrote of lesbian love and who died shortly before the novel was begun. Max was based partly on Auguste Heriot, with whom Colette did have an affair after her divorce from Willy. Renee's fellow performer and mentor, Brague, resembles Georges Wague, an able performer who had assisted Colette to get started in mime (her Burgundian accent was thought, for a time, to be a barrier against vocal...
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