Paulette Coquatrix

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Paulette Coquatrix (born Clara Paulette Possicelsky, 26 April 1916 – 28 May 2018) was a French costume designer.

At the beginning of the 1950s, she was a costume designer for the Comédie-Caumartin shows, directed by Bruno Coquatrix from 1952.^[1]

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.^[2]

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]}

Under her ownership, the Olympia Hall was destructed and rebuilt identically a few meters away from its original location in 1997.^[3][4] 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.^[5][6] Coquatrix sold the auditorium to the Vivendi group in August 2001.^[7]

Paulette Coquatrix died on 28 May 2018 at the age of 102.^[8]

• (in French) Les coulisses de ma mémoire. Grasset & Fasquelle. 1984. ISBN 2-246-31071-7
• (in French) Mes noces d'or avec l'Olympia. Cator Astral. 17 November 2003. ISBN 978-2859204624^[9]

• 1997: Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur^[10]

Clara Paulette Possicelsky married Bruno Coquatrix and she had three daughters.^[11] Her daughter Patricia was the artistic director of the Olympia until January 2002.^[12] In November 2010, she inaugurated the newly named street "rue Bruno Coquatrix" in Paris.^[13]

• Bruno Coquatrix
• Olympia Hall

• Paulette Coquatrix at IMDb