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Armand de Montriveau, a general under Napoleon but of no account under the Restoration régime, has traced Antoinette de Langeais, the woman he loves, to a convent in Majorca where she has hidden herself as a nun. He asks for an interview, which is granted when Antoinette claims he is her brother.
The story then shifts to a second passenger, referred to only as Mademoiselle. A chance remark by a passerby about a governess triggers her flashback. She is the governess and French tutor to Thomas Clayton Campbell Jr., a bored eleven-year-old American boy left in her charge at a hotel in Rome by his absent parents.
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (full title: The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany, Being the Person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II) is a 1724 novel by Daniel Defoe.
Mademoiselle is a 1966 psychological thriller film directed by Tony Richardson. Jeanne Moreau plays the title character, a seemingly-respectable schoolteacher in a small French village, who is actually an undetected sociopath .
In 1835 Paris, Ryno de Marigny (Fu'ad Aït Aattou), before marrying the young and innocent Hermangarde (Roxanne Mesquida), makes a last visit to La Vellini (Asia Argento), his Spanish mistress, to bid goodbye in an act of lovemaking. His liaison with La Vellini is the subject of Parisian gossip, and before Hermangarde's grandmother gives her ...
Mademoiselle from Paris (French: Mademoiselle de Paris) is a 1955 French comedy film directed by Walter Kapps and starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gisèle Pascal and Nadine Basile. The film was one of several films set in the work of high fashion made during the decade, popularising the New Look of Christian Dior. [1] It was shot using Eastmancolor.
Parisienne (French: Peur de rien, lit. 'Afraid of Nothing') is a 2015 French drama film written and directed by Danielle Arbid. [3] It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. [4]
A sequel, L'incomparable mademoiselle C., followed in 2004 and is based on Une bien curieuse factrice and Une drôle de ministre. There have also been plans to Maïna on the big screen. For Radio-Canada , Demers hosted a children's show called Dominique raconte... , where she read approximately 150 books to young viewers.