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 Bellocq world, including in Paris, Windsor, Henley-on-Thames and Salisbury, Osaka (Japan), Chicago (Illinois), Sedona (Arizona) and Ede (Netherlands). She died in the summer of 1999 and rests in the cemetery in Saint-Briac. In 1978, the purchase by the French Ministry of Culture of her painting "Ouverture sur l’océan" (Opening onto the Ocean) for the National Collection confirmed the stature of this artist, and the prizes flowed. Some of the major ones are as follows: Gabrielle Bellocq Gabrielle Bellocq (born 15 June 1920 in Saint-Hilaire-de-Talmont - died 29 July 1999 in Saint-Malo) was an artist in pastels. Gabrielle Bellocq has been acknowledged