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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 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] |
Colette Capriles
Colette Capriles is a Venezuelan political scientist. As a professor of political philosophy and social sciences at Simón Bolívar University, she served as Head of the Political Science Section. She specializes in the study of anti-liberal political thought and culture, and in Venezuelan politics. Capriles is a frequent media commentator and opinion columnist on these topics. Life and career Capriles attended the Central University of Venezuela, where she graduated in 1982 with a degree in social psychology. In 2000, she obtained a master's degree in philosophy from Simón Bolívar University, followed by a doctorate there. Capriles then joined the faculty at Simón Bolívar University, where she became the Head of the Political Science Section. Capriles's research focuses on the political philosophy of tyranny, anti-liberal political thought, and the political culture of Venezuela during the 1960s. In 2004, Capriles published ''La revolución como espectáculo'' (The revoluti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette De Jouvenel
Colette de Jouvenel, also known as Bel-Gazou, (July 19131981) was the French producer of an animated film. She was the daughter of French writer Colette and her second husband, Henri de Jouvenel. She was the half-sister of :fr:Renaud de Jouvenel and Bertrand de Jouvenel. Born at Castel-Novel in Corrèze, she spent her childhood in the care of her English nanny, Miss Draper, only rarely seeing her famous mother. In 1935, Colette de Jouvenel married Dr. Dausse. She would leave her husband two months later and divorce the following year, in 1936. After this short-lived marriage, she had affairs with several women, notably with Nicole Stéphane. She produced an animated film for L'Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française, entitled ''Introduction à Colette''. It premiered 18 March 1968. She is buried next to her mother at Père Lachaise in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Inez
Colette Inez (June 3, 1931 – January 16, 2018) was an American poet and a faculty member at Columbia University’s Undergraduate Writing Program. She published ten poetry collections and won the Guggenheim Fellowship, Rockefeller Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA Fellowships) and two Prizes and many other awards. Her memoir, ''The Secret of M. Dulong'', was released in 2008 by The University of Wisconsin Press.Colette Inez Profile and Works Poets & Writers website. Early life and education Born on June 23, 1931 as the love child of a French scholar and a French-American priest in Brussels, Colette Inez spent her early years in a Belgian Catholic orphanage, arriving in America as a pretended orphan at age eight at the start of World War II. Her adolescence was spent under the foster c ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Hume
Colette Hume is the Education Correspondent for BBC Wales Today as well as a network stand-in for Wales Correspondent Wyre Davies for BBC News BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadca ... network services. She is originally from the North-East of England and has previously worked for the BBC's Breakfast news programme. References External links * * BBC newsreaders and journalists Welsh journalists Welsh women journalists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Wales-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Hiller
Colette Hiller is an American actress who starred on film, theatre and television. She attended the Performing Arts Academy in New York as a teenager, and appeared in the original musical play of ''Annie'', and in other films and plays such as ''The Lonely Lady'', ''Ragtime'', '' Strong Medicine'', and ''Birth of the Beatles''. She played Corporal Ferro in the 1986 film '' Aliens''. Hiller has also worked for the BBC, creating documentaries such as ''Too Clever by Half'' and the children's music cassette ''Applehead''. As its Creative Director, Hiller was instrumental in setting up SingLondon in 2007. In 2009, in addition to various song related events, Hiller drove the Street Pianos project which saw pianos placed in London's public spaces, and freely available for people to play. The SingLondon project went on to spawn PingLondon, a project which in 2010 placed ping pong tables around London and, in 2011, the major cities of the UK. Also in 2011, SingLondon produced Searc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Guillaumin
Colette Guillaumin (28 January 1934 – 10 May 2017), was a sociologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and a French feminist. Guillaumin is an important theorist of the mechanisms of racism and sexism, and relations of domination. She is also an important figure in materialist feminism. She participated in the founding of the journal '' Questions féministes'', alongside other French academics (such as Simone de Beauvoir) and is also one of the co-founders of the journal ''Le Genre Humain''. Guillaumin was influential in the early academic field of the social construction of gender. Her theories overlap with those of radical feminists and lay the groundwork for gender criticism. Biography Colette Guillaumin was born on 28 January 1934 in Thiers. She studied ethnology and psychology in Paris. She taught sporadically in France and Canada. She joined the ''Centre national de la recherche scientifique'' in 1959, initially as a technician and then from 1962 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Gouvion
Colette Gouvion is a journalist and author. She worked for 13 years on the French weekly , and for 15 years was editor-in-chief of the magazine ''Marie Claire ''Marie Claire'' is a French international monthly magazine first published in France in 1937, followed by the United Kingdom in 1941. Since then various editions are published in many countries and languages. The feature editions focus on wo ...''. She is currently the editor of ''Partance'', a new travel magazine. She has written a number of books, including ''Les Enfants Problemes'', ''La Symbolique des Rues et des Cités'', '' La Voix des Nouveaux Paysans'', ''Béatrice de Planissoles'', ''Plus vous que Moi'' and '' The Gardeners of God''. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people French magazine editors French women writers Women magazine editors {{France-journalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Giudicelli
Colette Giudicelli (24 November 1943 – 24 September 2020) was a French politician and a member of the French Senate. She represented the Alpes-Maritimes department and was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement party and later of The Republicans. She began her political career as city councillor of Menton Menton (; , written ''Menton'' in classical norm or ''Mentan'' in Mistralian norm; it, Mentone ) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera, close to the Italian border. Me ... in 1989. Giudicelli was married to Jean-Claude Guibal, mayor of Menton. Colette Giudicelli died on 24 September 2020 at the age of 76. References External linksAlphabetical list of current Senators(2011) 1943 births 2020 deaths French city councillors French senators of the Fifth Republic Union for a Popular Movement politicians The Republicans (France) politicians Senators of Alpes-Maritimes Women membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Flesch
Colette Flesch (born 16 April 1937 in Dudelange) is a Luxembourgish politician and former fencer. Life She gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Wellesley College in 1960, then earned an M.A. in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, before studying at The Hague Academy of International Law. As a fencer she participated in the Individual foil events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. She worked for the European Economic Community in Brussels, specialising in the agricultural side of the Common Market for 5 years. She has served in numerous political capacities, both in government and within the Democratic Party and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. In December 1968 she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in an early election. In 1970 she became the first female Mayor of Luxembourg City at the age of 32, which she remained until 1980. Besides her work in the Chamber of Deputies (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Fitzpatrick
Colette Fitzpatrick (born June 1974) is one of the main news anchors at Virgin Media News (formerly known as "TV3 News"), since September 2006. She is a native of Holycross, Thurles, County Tipperary.("Colette, 31, from Thurles, Co Tipperary") Fitzpatrick is a Virgin Media News anchor. She presents the weekday bulletins: ''News at 12.30'' and '' News at 5.30''. She has also hosted the prime time current affairs show ''Midweek''. Fitzpatrick began working in the TV3 newsroom in March 2001. She has edited and anchored bulletins for the morning news programme ''Ireland AM'' and also reported on a range issues for the main evening news. She reported from Kashmir on the aftermath of the earthquake. She was also a regular stand-in as main presenter on ''Ireland AM'' alongside Mark Cagney, Alan Hughes and Aidan Cooney. Fizpatrick previously worked in the newsroom in Today FM where she edited and presented hourly bulletins and reported on a range of stories including courts and tribun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Doherty
Colette Doherty is an Irish poker player. In her career, she won the Irish Poker Open twice, including in its inaugural year, 1980, and again in 1991. She is also noted as the first European and first female player to play in the World Series of Poker, a position she earned through her first Irish Poker Open win, in a deal with Terry Rogers. She also made two appearances in Late Night Poker and has played at the Gutshot Card Club The Gutshot Poker Club (also known as The Gutshot Poker Collective or simply The Gutshot) was a poker club, bar, restaurant and internet cafe located on Clerkenwell Road, London, England. The club opened in March 2004 and closed in 2007. It was fou .... References External linksHendon Mob profile Female poker players Irish poker players Irish Poker Open winners Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{poker-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
