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 Duchêne Gabrielle Duchêne Gabrielle Duchêne (26 February 1870 – 3 August 1954) was a French feminist and pacifist who was active in the French section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Gabrielle Duchêne was born into a bourgeois family in Paris on 26 February 1870. Although she became a socialist, she was a wealthy woman. She became interested in politics with the Dreyfus affair, and then became involved in philanthropic work. In 1908 she co-founded "Entr’aide" (Mutual Aid), a cooperative for the makers of lingerie and fashion items. In the following years she fought against exploitation of