Coccinelle
Sign in to saveJacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy (23 August 1931 – 9 October 2006), better known by her stage name Coccinelle ("ladybird" in French), was a French cabaret entertainer, singer, actress, and transgender activist. A transgender woman, she was the first widely publicized celebrity to undergo gender reassignment in Europe. Coccinelle was an international celebrity and a renowned club singer, styled as a blonde bombshell and sex symbol.
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Key facts
- Person.name
- Coccinelle
- Person.birth_name
- Jacqueline-Charles Dufresnoy
- Person.image
- Coccinelle (cropped).jpg
- Person.caption
- Coccinelle in 1970
- Person.birth_date
- 23 August 1931
- Person.birth_place
- Paris, France
- Person.death_place
- Marseille, France
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Charles
- Gender
- trans woman
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 18th arrondissement of Paris
- Place of death
- 5th arrondissement of Marseille
- Occupation
- conferencier
- Languages spoken
- French
- Image
- Coccinelle (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1931-08-23
- date of death
- 2006-10-09
- Commons category
- Coccinelle
- cause of death
- stroke
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- Jacques Charles Dufresnoy
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
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- Activism and later life
- Filmography
- Discography
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Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy (23 August 1931 – 9 October 2006), better known by her stage name Coccinelle ("ladybird" in French), was a French cabaret entertainer, singer, actress, and transgender activist. A transgender woman, she was the first widely publicized celebrity to undergo gender reassignment in Europe. Coccinelle was an international celebrity and a renowned club singer, styled as a blonde bombshell and sex symbol.
==Biography== ===Early life=== Dufresnoy was born as Jacques-Charles in Paris in 1931 at rue Notre Dame de Nazareth No. 66 in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. She was given the nickname "Coccinelle" (French for "ladybird") after a red party dress with polka dots she wore, which she adopted as her stage name in show business.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Coccinelle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.