Colette Colette Colette (; Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French mime, actress, journalist and novelist, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Colette was widely known for her 1944 novella "Gigi" (1944), which subsequently was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name. The writer was the subject of numerous biographies, songs, and films, including 2018's "Colette". Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born on January 28, 1873, to war hero and tax collector Jules-Joseph Colette and his wife Adèle Eugénie Sidonie ("Sido"), "née" Landoy, in the village of
Sidonie Werner (1906), a children's home in Bad Segeberg (1908), a children's home in Altona (1910), as well as several buildings in Bad Segeberg's Bismarkalle for children and mother care. In the late 1920s, she established a home for sick childdren in Wyk (1927), extending the facility in 1929. It was destroyed by fire in 1938. On the political front, representing the German Democratic Party, she was a candidate for the city elections in 1919 but was not elected. Sidonie Werner died in Bad Segeberg on 27 December 1932. Sidonie Werner Sidonie Werner (1860–1932) was a German Jewish schoolteacher and feminist based