Colette actress Mathilda May. In the 2018 film "Colette", she is played by Keira Knightley.. Both films focus on Colette's life in her twenties, her marriage to her first husband, and the publication of her first novels under his name. Source: 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
Gabrielle Donnay She worked on tourmaline and was especially interested in the relationship between the physical properties of a mineral and its structure. She published more than 134 papers in her lifetime, almost half of which were collaborative projects with her husband. Donnay showed great insight into the various chemical mechanisms that were important in the growth of crystals." She died on 4 April 1987. Gabrielle Donnay Gabrielle Donnay, née Hamburger (21 March 1920 – 4 April 1987), was a German-born American crystallographer and historian of science. Gabrielle Donnay was born in Landeshut, Germany (now Kamienna Góra, Poland) on 21 June 1920