{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.04261645193260654, 'fraction_numerical': 0.035678889990089196, 'mean_word_length': 4.51912568306011, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Memory and Fiction in the Novels of Catherine Colomb

Born in 1892, the French Swiss writer Catherine Colomb spent her first years at Saint-Prex on Lake Geneva near Lausanne. After her mother died in childbirth in 1897, Colomb was raised by her maternal grandmother. She went to school in Lausanne, and made extended stays in Weimar, Potsdam, and England. She received a B.A. in literature from the University of Lausanne in 1916, and worked on an unfinished doctoral thesis entitled "Beat-Louis de Muralt. Voyageur et fanatique." In 1921, she married the distinguished lawyer, Jean Reymond; they had two sons, Claude and Dominique. In Yverdon, she secretly began to writefiction and published a first novel, Pile ou face, in 1934. Her reputation is based on a trilogy of novels that followed it: Chateaux en enfance (1945), admired by Jean Paulhan, Les Esprits de la terre (1953), and Le Temps des anges (1962). She received the "Prix du livre vaudois" and the "Prix Rambert. " Catherine Colomb died in 1965.