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 Cot Gabrielle Cot Gabrielle Cot is a portrait oil on canvas painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau from 1890. Gabrielle Cot was the daughter of the French painter Pierre Auguste Cot, the most notable pupil of Bouguereau. This painting was the only non-commissioned painting he ever painted. Initially the work was started as a study for another painting but Bouguereau was enthralled by her charm and beauty, so he decided to paint a portrait of her. The painting measures and bears the artist's signature, W-BOUGUEREAU, and the date of 1890 in the lower left corner. The painting was gifted to Madame Duret by