Marie-France Boyer
- Actress
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A stunning blonde leading lady of the late sixties, Marie-France Boyer became best known internationally for her role as the Burgundian heiress Isabelle de Croye in the Franco-German swashbuckling television series Quentin Durward (1971), based on Sir Walter Scott's 1823 novel. Prior to that, she was noted for her key role in Agnès Varda's award-winning New Wave drama Le bonheur (1965) and leads in the films Une fille nommée Amour (1969) and Piège blond (1970).
In 1978, Marie-France quit acting and reinvented herself as an author of non-fiction books dealing with French history ("The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette") and culture ("Matisse at Villa Le Reve", "Village Voices: French Country Life", "The French Café"). She was formerly married to producer/director Rémy Grumbach. Marie-France had two children with her second husband, Algerian-born Jean Zorbibe, chairman and CEO from 1965 to 1998 of the French luxury leather goods company Lancel.
In 1978, Marie-France quit acting and reinvented herself as an author of non-fiction books dealing with French history ("The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette") and culture ("Matisse at Villa Le Reve", "Village Voices: French Country Life", "The French Café"). She was formerly married to producer/director Rémy Grumbach. Marie-France had two children with her second husband, Algerian-born Jean Zorbibe, chairman and CEO from 1965 to 1998 of the French luxury leather goods company Lancel.
