Mononymous person town of Stendal, birthplace of the German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, whom Stendhal admired. In the 20th century, a fourth French writer, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (author of "Gigi", 1945), used her actual surname as her mononym pen name, Colette. Some French actors and singers have used their given name or surname as a stage mononym. In the 17th and 18th centuries, most Italian castrato singers used mononyms as stage names (e.g. Caffarelli, Farinelli). The German writer, mining engineer and philosopher, Georg Friedrich Philipp Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772–1801), became famous as Novalis. The 19th-century Dutch writer Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820–87), better
Gabrielle Wiehe Wiehe, was also a famous Mauritian saxophonist. After graduating from Lycée Labourdonnais in Mauritius, Gabrielle Wiehe moved to Metropolitan France in 1998 . She started studying graphic design in Paris that same year. Graduate of the school intuit lab in 2002 , she published the following year a book at Mango Jeunesse in which she illustrates The Puss in Boots and The Fairies, two tales by Charles Perrault. She had previously published a first book titled Bestioles, which only appeared in 2005 at L'atelier du poisson soluble. Gabrielle Wiehe Gabrielle Wiehe (Born : July 14, 1980 in Moka, Mauritius) is