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 Gourdeau the university. Gabrielle Gourdeau Gabrielle Gourdeau (1952 – July 5, 2006) was a writer in Quebec, Canada. Born in the Limoilou neighbourhood of Quebec City, Gourdeau received a PhD in French literature from the University of Toronto. She lectured in the Department of Literature at Laval University for a number of years. In 1992, she received a fellowship grant from Laval University to assist her in writing "Analyse du discours narratif", a work of literary criticism. That same year, Gourdeau published her first novel "Maria Chapdelaine ou le Paradis retrouvé"; despite some negative reaction from critics, it was awarded the