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 Nádherná von Borutín during Nádherná's lifetime. Sidonie Nádherná von Borutín Sidonie Nádherná von Borutín (1 December 1885 – 30 September 1950; alternatively Sidonie Nádherný or Sidonie Nádherná z Borutína) was a Bohemian baroness known for hosting literary salons and her correspondence with Rainer Maria Rilke and Karl Kraus. Sidonie Amálie Vilemína Karolína Julie Marie Nádherná von Borutín was the youngest child of landowner Karel Boromejský Jan Ludvík (1849–1895), Knight Nádherný of Borutín, and his wife Amalie Klein von Wisenberg (1854–1910), a daughter of the businessman Albert Klein von Wisenberg. Her older brothers were Jan Karel Ludvík Sidonius Adalbert Julius Otmar Maria and Karel