Who is Loulotte and How Is She Related to Bleuette?

 Loulotte is a character from the Becassine cartoon published by the Gautier & Languereau publishing company for many years, beginning with the first issue (February 2, 1905) of the girls' magazine, La Semaine de Suzette (Suzette's Week).  It looked like this later issue:

The first issue showed an ad for the new magazine's premium doll, a pretty Jumeau doll called Bleuette, and offered a pattern for a dress to sew for her.

In La Semaine de Suzette's weekly cartoon, Loulotte was the baby for whom Becassine was hired to be nanny in the fictional Grand-Air household in Paris.  Like many actual servants of the time, she was a Breton girl who wore the traditional costume of  her native region of France.

 Loulotte was still a character in the Becassine cartoon years later when she become a young woman.  The girl and her Breton nanny had many adventures together.

In reality Loulotte was based on an actual little girl, the daughter of the Maurice Languereaus.  Maurice was one of the publishers of La Semaine de Suzette.

Loulotte became a small doll when she was made by a doll artist, Bernard Terrie, as a souvenir for the Bleuette Congress that took place in Lille, France, on 18 to 20 March, 1994. The Congress was organized for collectors and those who studied Bleuette. Each attendee received one of a limited number of the Loulottes. The souvenir doll was 24 cm (about 9.5 inches) with bisque head, fixed brown eyes, a dark bob wig, and articulated composition body. The heads were marked with a script L (for Lille?) and an edition number. Later the doll continued to be made by Jacques Defaut. His business name was amedeobjects, so he incised AO on the back of the doll's neck.

In 2015 the Georgette Bravot company, famed French makers of doll wigs and shoes, sold a limited edition of Loulotte dolls.  Some had different hair colors and styles than the typical dark bob.  They are marked GB, Loulotte, and an edition number, and were otherwise the same size and type as the first Lille Congress dolls.  Bravot currently sells shoes and clothing for the Loulotte doll, but not the doll itself.  The Bravot doll below is Loulotte # 174.

Who is Loulotte?  Now you know!