COLET, LOUISE (1810-1876), French poet and novelist, was born at Aix of a Provençal family named Revoil. In 1835 she came to Paris with her husband Hippolyte Colet (1808-51), a composer of music and professor of harmony and counter point at the Conservatoire. Louise Colet is perhaps best known for her intimate connection with some of her famous contem poraries, Abel Villemain, Gustave Flaubert and Victor Cousin. Only one of her many volumes of prose and verse is now of inter est—Lui: roman contemporain (1859), the novel in which she told the story of her life. (See also FLAUBERT.)