Madame Bovary, originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1857. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.
Marie Trintignant was a French film and stage actress. She appeared in over 30 movies during her 36-year career. Her family was deeply involved in France's film industry, as her father was an actor and her mother was a director, producer, and screenwriter.
Marie-Josée Croze is a Canadian actress. She also holds French nationality, which she obtained in December 2012.
Victorine-Louise Meurent was a French painter and a model for painters. Although she is best known as the favorite model of Édouard Manet, she was an artist in her own right who regularly exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon. In 1876, her paintings were selected for inclusion at the Salon's juried exhibition, when Manet's work was not.
Madame Rosa is a 1977 French drama film directed by Moshé Mizrahi, adapted from the 1975 novel The Life Before Us by Romain Gary. It stars Simone Signoret and Samy Ben-Youb, and tells the story of an elderly Jewish woman and former prostitute in Paris who cares for a number of children, including an adolescent Algerian boy. The film required a transformation in Signoret's appearance as Madame Rosa.
Nadine Trintignant is a French filmmaker and novelist. She is known for making films that surround the topic of family and relationships, such as Ça n'arrive qu'aux autres and L'été prochain. Her film Mon amour, mon amour was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.
Geneviève Tabouis was a French historian and journalist.
Léonie Juliana, Baroness Cooreman, also known by her stage name Annie Cordy, was a Belgian actress and singer. She appeared in more than 50 films from 1954 and staged many memorable appearances at Bruno Coquatrix' famous Paris Olympia. Her version of "La Ballade de Davy Crockett" was number 1 in the charts for five weeks in France in August 1956. She was born in Laeken, Belgium, where in 2004, King Albert II of Belgium bestowed upon her the title of Baroness in recognition for her life's achievements.
Jane Marken was a French actress. She was the first wife of the actor Jules Berry.
Catherine Mouchet is a French actress.
Mr. Orchid is a 1946 French drama film directed by René Clément and starring Noël-Noël, Paul Frankeur and Nadine Alari. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. It was shot at the Cité Elgé studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Carré.
Under the Sky of Paris is a 1951 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier.
Geneviève Brisac is a French writer.
Nadine de Rothschild is a French author and former actress. She is the widow of banker Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, a member of the Rothschild family.
Édouard Brasey is a French novelist, essayist, scriptwriter and story-teller born on 25 March 1954. Author of more than seventy works, many of which have been translated into English, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. He specialises in the themes of the esoteric, fables, legends and fantasy. He won a prize of Imaginales in 2006 for La Petite Encyclopédie du Merveilleux, and a prize Merlin in 2009 for his novel La Malédiction de l'Anneau. Subsequently, he has become essentially a novelist, notably published by Calmann-Lévy. His historical-esoteric thriller that was published in 2013, Le Dernier Pape, anticipated the abdication of Benoît XVI.
Madame Édouard is a French comedy crime film directed by Nadine Monfils.
Amanda Queffélec-Maruani, known professionally as Amanda Sthers, is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker.
Les petites filles modèles is a novel for children by the Countess of Ségur first published in May 1858. It is the second book of a trilogy, with Sophie's Misfortunes (1858) and Les vacances (1859). Hachette was still selling 20 000 copies of this novel at the beginning of the 21st century.
Lady J is a 2018 French period drama film directed by Emmanuel Mouret and inspired by a story in Denis Diderot's novel Jacques the Fatalist, which had already been adapted in 1945 for the film Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne by Robert Bresson. Set in France before 1789, it stars Cécile de France as Madame de La Pommeraye, an attractive widow whose bachelor lover, the Marquis des Arcis, will not propose to her and gets her revenge by tricking him into marrying Mademoiselle de Joncquières, a former prostitute.
Fanny Mauferon-Vernet, known professionally as Fanny Sidney, is a French actress, director and screenwriter. She is known for her role as Camille Valentini in the TV series Call My Agent! (2015–2020).
