Paulette Coquatrix
{{Short description|French costume designer}}
{{Expand French|topic=bio|Paulette Coquatrix|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Paulette Coquatrix
| image =
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| birth_name = Clara Paulette Possicelsky
| birth_date = {{birth date|1916|04|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
| restingplace = Cimetière du Père Lachaise
| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|05|28|1916|04|26|df=y}}
| death_place = Paris, France
| occupation = Costume designer
| spouse = Bruno Coquatrix (m. 19??-1979; his death); 1 child
}}
Paulette Coquatrix (born Clara Paulette Possicelsky, 26 April 1916 – 28 May 2018) was a French costume designer.
Biography
At the beginning of the 1950s, she was a costume designer for the Comédie-Caumartin shows, directed by Bruno Coquatrix from 1952.{{cite web|title=Paulette Coquatrix - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France|url=http://data.bnf.fr/12660139/paulette_coquatrix|website=data.bnf.fr|language=fr|access-date=5 June 2018}}
In the early 1960s, her costume atelier went bankrupt and closed down after Josephine Baker failed to pay for the costumes she had ordered for her revue of Paris, mes amours.{{in lang|fr}} Dominique Chapuis, [https://www.lesechos.fr/2004/02/lolympia-entonne-lair-des-profits-1060680 L'Olympia entonne l'air des profits], Lesechos.fr, 4 February 2004
When her husband Bruno Coquatrix died in 1979, she inherited Olympia Hall in equal shares with her daughter Patricia. She entrusted the general direction to her nephew Jean-Michel Boris, who joined the company in 1954.{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}
Under her ownership, the Olympia Hall was destructed and rebuilt identically a few meters away from its original location in 1997.{{in lang|fr}} [https://www.liberation.fr/libe-3-metro/1995/12/08/l-olympia-mis-en-scene-par-des-promoteurs-la-reconstruction-a-l-identique-de-la-salle-est-au-coeur-d_152736 L'Olympia mis en scène par des promoteurs . La reconstruction à l'identique de la salle est au coeur d'un vaste projet immobilier.], Liberation.fr, 8 December 1995{{in lang|fr}} [https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/226811/Lolympia_demenage.html L'olympia déménage], Lorientlejour.com, 15 April 1997 After Jean-Michel Boris was laid off from the Olympia by her daughter Patricia, tensions arose between Paulette and Patricia regarding the business management of the music hall.{{in lang|fr}} [https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/tout-sauf-patricia-coquatrix-27-08-2001-2002393885.php « Tout sauf Patricia Coquatrix ! »], Leparisien.fr, 27 August 2001{{in lang|fr}} [https://www.humanite.fr/node/259563 La femme du jour Patricia Coquatrix], Humanite.fr, 1 February 2002 Coquatrix sold the auditorium to the Vivendi group in August 2001.[http://www.leparisien.fr/loisirs-et-spectacles/rachat-de-l-olympia-cette-fois-c-est-signe-17-10-2001-2002516990.php « Rachat de l'Olympia, cette fois c'est signé »], Le Parisien, 17 octobre 2001
Paulette Coquatrix died on 28 May 2018 at the age of 102.{{Cite web |url=http://www.lepoint.fr/ces-gens-la/mort-de-paulette-coquatrix-ancienne-proprietaire-de-l-olympia-29-05-2018-2222310_264.php |title=Mort de Paulette Coquatrix, ancienne propriétaire de l'Olympia|publisher=Le Point |language=French|access-date=5 June 2018}}
Publications
- {{in lang|fr}} Les coulisses de ma mémoire. Grasset & Fasquelle. 1984. {{ISBN|2-246-31071-7}}
- {{in lang|fr}} Mes noces d'or avec l'Olympia. Cator Astral. 17 November 2003. {{ISBN|978-2859204624}}{{in lang|fr}} [https://www.letelegramme.fr/ar/viewarticle1024.php?aaaammjj=20020820&article=4866964&type=ar Paulette Coquatrix à la librairie Ravy], Letelegramme.fr, 20 August 2002
Awards
Personal life
Clara Paulette Possicelsky married Bruno Coquatrix and she had three daughters.{{in lang|fr}} [https://www.purepeople.com/media/paulette-coquatrix-entouree-de-ses_m523212 Paulette Coquatrix, entourée de ses filles Ima, Patricia et Françoise lors du cocktail privé à L'Olympia le 30 novembre 2010], Purepeople.com, 30 November 2010 Her daughter Patricia was the artistic director of the Olympia until January 2002.{{Cite web|language=French|title=Patricia Coquatrix quitte l'Olympia|work=L'Obs|date=31 January 2002|url=http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/culture/20020131.OBS2785/patricia-coquatrix-quitte-l-olympia.html|access-date=5 June 2018}} In November 2010, she inaugurated the newly named street "rue Bruno Coquatrix" in Paris.{{in lang|fr}} [https://www.lepoint.fr/insolite/une-rue-bruno-coquatrix-a-paris-pres-de-l-olympia-19-11-2010-1264683_48.php Une rue Bruno Coquatrix à Paris, près de l'Olympia], Lepoint.fr, 19 November 2011
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0178955}}
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Category:French costume designers
Category:French women costume designers
Category:Businesspeople from Paris