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His father, René Jaspard, assistant to [[Gaston Gallimard]] in the thirties, had negotiated the copyright of Madame Bovary with [[Gustave Flaubert]] heirs. Gaston Gallimard had set up a film production company, mainly to enable his mistress, [[Valentine Tessier]], to become a film actress. The film was shot by [[Jean Renoir]], but was not a success. René Jaspard left Gaston Gallimard and worked as production manager alongside Renoir, then as line producer with [[Pierre Billon (director)]], [[Henri Calef]],Jean Cocteau]] and others. Involved in the Resistance in Marseille as part of [[Edmonde Charles-Roux]] network, then in the Toulouse network, he was made a knight of the Legion of Honor. |
His father, René Jaspard, assistant to [[Gaston Gallimard]] in the thirties, had negotiated the copyright of Madame Bovary with [[Gustave Flaubert]] heirs. Gaston Gallimard had set up a film production company, mainly to enable his mistress, [[Valentine Tessier]], to become a film actress. The film was shot by [[Jean Renoir]], but was not a success. René Jaspard left Gaston Gallimard and worked as production manager alongside Renoir, then as line producer with [[Pierre Billon (director)]], [[Henri Calef]],Jean Cocteau]] and others. Involved in the Resistance in Marseille as part of [[Edmonde Charles-Roux]] network, then in the Toulouse network, he was made a knight of the Legion of Honor. |
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Her mother, Madeleine Gérôme, was the great-niece of painter [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]] and the goddaughter and niece of Commandant Marcel Gérôme, leader of the Aspremont maquis, who was killed by the Germans in Nice in May 1944. An actress, she appeared in films by [[Jacques Deval]], Jean Dréville, André Cayatte, Gilles Grangier,[[Georges Lacombe (director)]] and Noël-Noël, and joined the Resistance alongside her husband during the war. |
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