- Had a trapeze installed in her home gymnasium as her preferred way to stay in shape.
- French novelist and memoirist, usually preoccupied with erotic themes. Married the pornographer Willy who helped publish her four "Claudine" novels (1900-1902). For a while earned money as a music hall artist. Through her second marriage, she became a leading Parisian socialite and began writing novels of great sensitivity, including "Sido" (1929) and "Gigi" (1944).
- One daughter: Colette Renée de Jouvenel des Ursins, born July 3 1913, died 1981.
- Loved cats, and played them in the theatre. She once played the part of a sphinx, and later a cat in the play La Chatte Amoureuse ("The Amourous Cat").
- Mother of second unit director 'Colette de Jouvenel'.
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