Colette
Colette
28.01.1873 - 03.08.1954 (81 years) (Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, France)
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (French: [kɔ.lɛt]; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, and was also known as a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best remembered for her 1944 novella Gigi (1944), which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name.