Paulette Coquatrix


Paulette Coquatrix was a French costume designer.

Biography

Clara Paulette Possicelsky married Bruno Coquatrix. At the beginning of the 1950s, she was a costume designer for the Comédie-Caumartin shows, directed by Bruno Coquatrix from 1952.
When he 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.
In July 1997, Coquatrix was awarded the Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur for her extensive career.
Coquatrix sold the auditorium to the Vivendi group in August 2001. Her daughter Patricia was the artistic director of Olympia until January 2002.
Paulette Coquatrix died on 28 May 2018 at the age of 102.