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Colette (other)
Colette (1873–1954) is the pen name of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Colette may also refer to: People * Colette (given name) * Colette (surname) * Colette of Corbie (1381–1447), French abbess and saint * DJ Colette (born Colette Marino in 1975), American DJ and house musician Miscellaneous * ''Colette'' (2013 film), a Czech-Slovak-Dutch film about a prisoner of Auschwitz * ''Colette'' (2018 film), a U.S.-U.K.-Hungary film, starring Keira Knightley as author Colette * ''Colette'' (2020 film), a US short documentary directed by Anthony Giacchino * Colette (boutique), a Parisian boutique * ''Antoine and Colette'', a 1962 film by François Truffaut * Murder of Colette Aram * Place Colette, a square in Paris, France * Colette (horse), an Australian thoroughbred racehorse See also * Coletta (other) * Collette (other) Collette is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * (born 1995), French dancer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella '' Gigi'', which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name. Her short story collection ''The Tendrils of the Vine'' is also famous in France. Life and career Family and background Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born on 28 January 1873 to war hero and tax collector Jules-Joseph Colette (1829–1905) and his wife Adèle Eugénie Sidonie ("Sido"), ''née'' Landoy (1835–1912), in the village of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye in the department of Yonne, Burgundy. Jules-Joseph Colette was a Zouave of the Saint-Cyr military school. A war hero who had lost a leg in the Second Italian War of Independence, he was awarded a post as tax collector in the village of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye where his chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette (given Name)
Colette is a French feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Colette of Corbie (1381–1447), Roman Catholic Saint * Colette Alliot-Lugaz (born 1947), French soprano * Colette Appel (born 1986), American pair skater * Colette Audry (1906–1990), French novelist, screenwriter and critic * Colette Avital (born 1939), Israeli diplomat and politician * Colette Baron-Reid (born 1958), Canadian spiritual medium * Colette Besson (1946–2005), French athlete * Colette Bonheur (real name: Colette Chailler, 1927–1966), Quebec singer * Colette Boky (born 1935), French-Canadian operatic soprano * Colette Bourgonje (born 1962), Paralympic cross-country skier and athlete * Colette Brand (born 1967), Swiss freestyle skier and Olympic medallist * Colette Brosset (1922–2007), French actress, writer and choreographer * Colette Brown (born 1969), British actress * Colette Bryce (born 1970), Irish poet * Colette Burson (born 1970), American screenwriter * Colette Caill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette (surname)
Colette is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * (born 1937), French actress * Claude Colette (1929–1990), French professional racing cyclist * (1920–2003), French swimmer * (died 2021), Ivorian woman in business * (born 1929), Belgian philosopher * Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873–1954), French novelist * Sheena Colette (born?) American actress * Théo Colette (born 1927), Belgian footballer See also * Colette (other) Colette (1873–1954) is the pen name of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Colette may also refer to: People * Colette (given name) * Colette (surname) * Colette of Corbie (1381–1447), French abbess and saint * DJ Colette (born ... * Coletta (surname) * Collette (surname) {{surname, Colette ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Of Corbie
Colette of Corbie, PCC (13 January 1381 – 6 March 1447) was a French abbess and the foundress of the Colettine Poor Clares, a reform branch of the Order of Saint Clare, better known as the Poor Clares. She is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church. Due to a number of miraculous events claimed during her life, she is venerated as a patron saint of women seeking to conceive, expectant mothers, and sick children. Life Early life She was born Nicole Boellet (or Boylet) in the village of Corbie, in the Picardy region of France, on 13 January 1381David Farmer,Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford University Press, 1996), p105. to Robert Boellet, a poor carpenter at the noted Benedictine Abbey of Corbie, and to his wife, Marguerite Moyon. Her contemporary biographers say that her parents had grown old without having children, before praying to Saint Nicholas for help in having a child. Their prayers were answered when, at the age of 60, Marguerite gave birth to a daughter. Out of gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Colette
Colette Marino (born May 27, 1975, in Chicago, Illinois), known as DJ Colette or simply as Colette, is a house music DJ and vocalist from Chicago, Illinois. She is a resident DJ at the SmartBar in Chicago, Illinois (along with Kaskade and others). She first gained attention when she started singing over her mixes as DJ. Biography She started DJing in the early 1990s. In 1997, she helped form the all-female DJ group SuperJane with DJ Heather, DJ Dayhota, and Lady D. During the preparations for her album ''Push'', she married actor/rock musician Thomas Ian Nicholas in 2007. They have two children, a son born in 2011, and a daughter, born in April 2016. In 2003, she was, along with Paul Van Dyk and Felix da Housecat, chosen to advertise Motorola's cellular phones. Her song used in this commercial would go on to win Dancestar's ''Best Song Used in a Commercial'' for Motorola. She also received "Best Breakthrough DJ" award. Her album ''Hypnotized'' was the most downloaded hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette (2013 Film)
''Colette'', also released under the name ''Prisoner of Auschwitz'', is a 2013 English language Czech-Slovak-Dutch war film written and directed by Milan Cieslar and starring Jirí Mádl and . It is set in World War II and based on the Arnošt Lustig book, ''A girl from Antwerp''. Plot Cast * as Colette *Jiří Mádl as Vili Feld * as Weissacker *Andrej Hryc as Fritz * Zuzana Mauréry as Broderova * Ondřej Vetchý as Elli * Helena Dvořáková as Kordula * Kristína Svarinská *Juraj Adamík *Jiří Bartoška as Old Vili (voice) *Dan Brown *Lubomir Burgr *Václav Chalupa * Jan Cina as Jeremiás * *Jeremi Durand as François Platard (voice) *Ivan Franěk *Pavel Gajdoš *Jordan Haj *Robert Holik as Mourning Brother *Juraj Hrcka *Jitka Jackuliak *Anna Kocicová * Barbora Kodetová * *Philipp Kraiczy * as Sowa *Denisa Pfauserová * Elena Podzámska *Kajetán Písarovic *Balcárek Radek *Eva Reiterová * * * *Tomas Sotak *Josef Tkác *Miroslav Táborský Miroslav Táborsk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette (2018 Film)
''Colette'' is a 2018 biographical drama film directed by Wash Westmoreland, from a screenplay by Westmoreland, Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Richard Glatzer, based upon the life of the French novelist Colette. It stars Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, and Denise Gough. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2018. It was released in the United States on September 21, 2018, by Bleecker Street and 30West. The film premiered in London at the BFI London Film Festival and was released in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2019, by Lionsgate. Plot Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is a young woman from the rural Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye at the end of the 19th century, who begins an affair with Willy. Willy eventually brings Colette to Paris as his bride, with socialites expressing surprise a libertine like him would marry. Willy refers to himself as a "literary entrepreneur", employing a number of ghostwriters to write articles. However, he finds the lim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette (2020 Film)
''Colette'' is a 2020 French-language American documentary film directed by Anthony Giacchino and produced by Alice Doyard, Annie Small and Aaron Matthews. Accolades It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 93rd Academy Awards. Co-produced by Oculus and Respawn Entertainment as part of the documentary gallery for the virtual-reality video game '' Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond'', ''Colette'' is the first film produced by a video-game studio to win or be nominated for an Academy Award. Plot Together with aspiring historian Lucie Fouble, 90-year-old Resistance fighter Colette Marin-Catherine travels to Nordhausen to visit Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. Until then, she had avoided visiting the place where her brother, Jean-Pierre, died. The whole family was active in the resistance. She wrote down the registration numbers of passing trucks. Her brother had collected weapons for the resistance and was arrested in the process. He died in the concen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette (boutique)
Colette was a French high fashion, streetwear, and accessory retailer. The three floor concept store was located in Paris and contained an exhibition space, bookshop, and a "water bar" serving more than 100 brands of bottled water. It closed permanently in December 2017. Colette's logo was two blue dots. History The boutique was founded in 1997 by Colette Roussaux; her daughter, Sarah Andelman, took an active role as creative director and purchasing manager in the store's final years. ''Esquire'' called the store "like Kith, Bergdorf Goodman, and Opening Ceremony all rolled into one." The store did €32 million in sales revenue in 2016,Jian DeLeonFashion Industry Insiders React to colette Shutting Its Doorshighsnobiety.com 2017/07/13 with e-commerce accounting for 25% of revenue. In December 2005, Forbes described Colette as“the trendiest store in the world”. Brands The shop was known for stocking the first collections of fashion brands and designers that became fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine And Colette
''Antoine and Colette'' (french: Antoine et Colette) is a 1962 French short film written and directed by François Truffaut. It is the second installment in Truffaut's five-film series about Antoine Doinel, the character he follows from boyhood to adulthood. ''Antoine and Colette'' was made for the 1962 anthology collection ''Love at Twenty'', which also featured shorts from the renowned directors Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda. Antoine Doinel — and Jean-Pierre Léaud, the actor who played him in all five films — had made his screen debut in 1959 with Truffaut's first film, ''The 400 Blows''. Truffaut's tender, semi-autobiographical film about the young Antoine and his gradual descent into petty crime had introduced the world to the French New Wave, a short-lived but highly influential outpouring of work from young filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Éric Rohmer. Plot ''Antoine and Colette'' catches up with Antoine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Colette Aram
Colette Aram (3 February 1967 – 30 October 1983) was a 16-year-old British trainee hairdresser who was abducted, raped and strangled as she walked from her home to her boyfriend's house in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, on 30 October 1983. The murder was the first case to be featured on the BBC television series ''Crimewatch'' when it began in June 1984. However, despite receiving over 400 calls as a result of the programme, Nottinghamshire Police were unable to catch the killer, and it was not until 2008 and following advances in forensic technology that police were able to develop a DNA profile of the suspect. Paul Stewart Hutchinson was finally charged with the murder in April 2009. He initially pleaded not guilty, but changed his plea to guilty on 21 December 2009 and was sentenced to life imprisonment on 25 January 2010. Following his sentencing, ''Crimewatch'' ran a recap of the murder and investigation on BBC TV on 27 January 2010 exposing several inaccuracies reported in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Place Colette
Place Colette is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Location and access The square is bordered to the north and east by wings of the Palais-Royal (containing, to the north, the Comédie-Française and to the east, the Conseil d'État), to the south by the rue Saint-Honoré and to the west by the rue de Richelieu. An entrance to the Métro station, serving lines and , is on Place Colette. It was redesigned by Jean-Michel Othoniel as the ''Kiosque des noctambules'' (Kiosk of the night-walkers), completed in October 2000 for the centenary of the Métro. History Place Colette had no name (it was simply part of the rue Saint-Honoré) until 1966 when it was named after the writer Colette following a request by her only daughter, Colette de Jouvenel, to André Malraux who was then Minister of Culture.. Film location The café "Le Nemours", in the façade of the Conseil d'État, has been used as a location for several films: *''Conversations with My Gardener'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
