Jouvenel, Colette de |
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BORN 3 Jul 1913, Paris: 16e - DIED 16 Sep 1981, Créteil, Val-de-Marne BIRTH NAME Jouvenel des Ursins, Colette Renée de GRAVE LOCATION Paris: Père Lachaise, Rue du Repos 16 (division 04, ligne 01) |
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Colette de Jouvenel was the daughter of the writer Colette and the journalist and politician Henry de Jouvenel. Her mother called her 'Bel-Gazou'. She was raised by a Miss Draper, an English nurse, at the Château de Castel-Novel in Corrèze. She suffered from the absence of her mother, but after a few months in Paris in 1922 she was sent to a boarding school in Saint-Germain-en-Laye where her mother did not visit her. She did not well at school and expelled from the Lycée Victor Duruy in Versailles in 1927. In 1931 she became assistant to film director Solange Bussi for her movie "La Vagabonde" that was scripted by Colette. She also worked as assistant director for two other films written by her mother, "Lac aux Dames" (1934) and "Divine" (1935). In 1935 she travelled to Africa. Under her pressure of her family, she married th doctor Camille Dausse in August 1935. She left him after two months and they were divorced in 1936. By this time, she realised that she preferred women above men. Until 1939 she worked as an interior designer. After the war broke out, she moved to the Château de Saint-Hilaire de Curemonte in Corrèze. The she was in contact with the anti-fascists. In 1943 she frequently met André Malreux and his wife Josette Clotis. She had love affairs with the Jewish resistant Simy Wertheim and with Jocelyne Alatini. In 1945 she was appointed deputy mayor of Curemonte. After the war ended, she went to Germany where she took photographs and testimonies. Her report 'Été allemand' was published in 1945 without the photographs because they were too shocking. In 1948 she became a decorator once more and she had an antiques store on Rue de Verneuil in Paris. In 1954 her mother died, and she found that Colette had provided far better for her third husband Maurice Godeket than for her daughter. Godeket inherited Colette's apartment at 9 rue de Beaujolais. After his death in 1977 she wanted to turn the apartment into a museum but before she managed to do so, she died in 1981. Family • Mother: Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle |
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 The grave of Colette at Père Lachaise, Paris. Picture by Androom (19 Nov 2006) |
