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Colette Gouvion is a journalist and author. She worked for 13 years on the French weekly L'Express , [1] and for 15 years was editor-in-chief of the magazine Marie Claire . 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 .
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 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.
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. She was nominated for the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, 1st Marquis of Gouvion-Saint-Cyr was a French military commander in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who rose to the rank of Marshal of the Empire. He is regarded as Napoleon's finest commander in defensive warfare.
Marie de Gournay was a French writer, who wrote a novel and a number of other literary compositions, including The Equality of Men and Women and The Ladies' Grievance. She insisted that women should be educated. Gournay was also an editor and commentator of Michel de Montaigne. After Montaigne's death, Gournay edited and published his Essays.
Philippe Jouvion is a professional researcher, freelance reporter and film producer. He worked for several years with the Cité des Sciences de la Villette in Paris producing films, and a number of his documentaries have won awards. At present he is working as a freelance journalist and is completing a television documentary on the environment.
Colette Caillat was a French professor of Sanskrit and comparative grammar. She was also one of the world's leading Jain scholars.
Châtillon-Coligny is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.
Colette Giudicelli 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.
Louis-Philippe Crépin was a French marine painter. Together with Théodore Gudin, he was appointed as one of France's first two Peintres de la Marine in 1830.
Colette Guillaumin, 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.
Marc Lambron is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1993, for L'Oeil du silence.
Colette Leloup was a French film executive, editor-in-chief. She went on to edit many films which included Je t'aime, Je t'aime (1968).
Louise Bodin was a French feminist and journalist who became a member of the steering committee of the French Communist Party.
Mathilde de Morny was a French aristocrat and artist. She was also known by the nickname "Missy" or by the artistic pseudonym "Yssim", or as "Max", "Uncle Max", or "Monsieur le Marquis". Active as a sculptor and painter, Morny studied under Comte Saint-Cène and the sculptor Édouard-Gustave-Louis Millet de Marcilly.
Questions féministes was a French feminist journal published from 1977 to 1980.
Colette Yver was a French Roman Catholic writer from Normandy, the winner of the 1907 Prix Femina for her work Princesses de science.
Colette Tshomba Ntundu is a politician from the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was elected national deputy for the constituency of Funa three times, in 2006, 2011 and 2018.
Michèle Sarde, is a French writer, born in 1939. She taught French literature and culture, together with gender and intercultural studies at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., from 1970 to 2000. She is now a Professor emerita at that university and lives in Chile and France.
Clara Fanny Olivier, known by her pen name Fanny Clar, was a French journalist and writer, as well as a socialist intellectual (as defined by the French Section of the Workers' International. She is also remembered for her commitment to pacifism and feminism. While her literary work includes novels, poems and plays, Clar primarily wrote stories for children.
Colette Reynaud (1872–1965) was a French feminist, socialist and pacifist journalist. In 1917, she was the co-founder and director of the weekly newspaper La Voix des femmes.
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