Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy

There is a new Google doodle celebrating the life of Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy, aka Coccinelle. She was a trendsetter in France and is beloved for her ...

It was this wedding that established in French law that transgender people had the right to marry in the country. In the 60s, she even turned to cinema, acting in two films, Los viciosos and Días de viejo color in 1962 and 1968 respectively. One night, at a party during her teenage years, she turned up wearing a red dress with black polka dots, earning her the nickname Coccinelle, which translates to ladybug in English.

Search engine giant Google celebrates the 91st birthday of Coccinelle, a pioneer for the LGBTQ+ community and the first French person to go through.

[ Festivals & Events4 hours ago ](https://www.timebulletin.com/coccinelle-google-doodle-celebrates-the-french-lgbtq-community-pioneers-91st-birthday/) Coccinelle worked widely as an activist on behalf of transgender people, establishing the association “Devenir Femme” (To Become Woman), which was intended to offer emotional and practical help to those looking for gender reassignment surgery. [Festivals & Events4 hours ago ](https://www.timebulletin.com/coccinelle-google-doodle-celebrates-the-french-lgbtq-community-pioneers-91st-birthday/) Her 1987 autobiography Coccinelle was published by Daniel Filipacchi. She later showed up in the 1968 Spanish romantic drama Días de Viejo color. She sang the title track of Premier Rendez-Vous, a 1941 movie directed by Henri Decoin. She additionally started acting in films like Europa Di Notte in 1959 and Los Viciosos in 1962. In 1958, she traveled to Casablanca to go through a vaginoplasty by Georges Burou. She procured a role at Le Carrousel de Paris, a famous music hall with numerous transgender performers, where her talent and stage presence charmed audiences. She later performed regularly at the renowned nightclub Le Carrousel de Paris, which likewise featured regular acts by other well-known trans women like April Ashley and Marie-Pier Ysser. Assigned male at birth, she grew up with a deep, internal feeling of being a female, alongside interests in fashion and performance. She was transgender and was the first extensively publicized post-war gender reassignment case in Europe, where she was an international celebrity and a famous club singer.

The illustrious club singer, born on August 23, 1931, went by the stage name Coccinelle. Labelled a male at birth, Coccinelle was the first known French person ...

Activism was not central to her early life and works, but later in life she founded Devenir Femme, an organisation meaning to ‘To Become Woman’. Her autobiography was published in 1987, titled Coccinelle par Coccinelle, and detailed her rise to stardom and a life of activism. Their union was the first marriage of a trans person to be recognised by the French government – and the Catholic church that re-baptised her as Jacqueline. Although Coccinelle went on to marry twice more, this marked a moment in history that set the precedent for the legal right to marry for trans people in France. [French ](/topic/french) [actress](/topic/actress) and entertainer, was reincarnated as the star of Tuesday’s [Google Doodle](/topic/google-doodle). Labelled a male at birth, Coccinelle was the first known French person to undergo sex-reassignment surgery in Europe after World War I.

The iconic club singer and actor, born on 23 August, 1931, was the first known French celebrity to undergo gender-affirming surgery. Her journey was widely ...

Her final husband was a trans man and activist named Thierry Wilson. Their wedding made legal and religious history, giving trans people the right to marry in France. At the time, it was illegal in France for people to wear clothing not associated with their gender assigned at birth. During her teenage years, she once wore a red dress with black polka dots to a party, earning her the nickname Coccinelle, which means “ladybird” in French. Dufresnoy became a regular, well-known act at Le Carrousel de Paris, a popular music hall with played host to numerous trans performers. Her journey was widely publicised across Europe, and she

On her 91st birthday, which would have been today, the Google Doodle honours Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy, better known by her stage name Coccinelle.

The Center for Aid, Research, and Information on Transsexuality and Gender Identity was also founded with her assistance. In a later statement, Coccinelle stated of the procedure: “Dr. Coccinelle was born on August 23, 1931, in Paris.