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
Gabrielle Clerk Gabrielle Clerk Gabrielle "Gaby" Clerk (born Gabrielle Brunet; 30 June 1923 – 18 December 2012) was a Canadian psychologist and professor of psychology at the Université de Montréal. She was one of the first psychoanalysts in Canada. In 1940 Gabrielle Brunet enrolled at the Université de Montréal's Institute of Psychology, which had just been founded by Father Noël Mailloux. She was part of the first class of six students along with and Thérèse Gouin-Décarie. After obtaining a licence in psychology in 1948 from the Faculty of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal, she was entrusted with teaching duties as a