Simone Le Bargy

She took after Sarah Bernhardt in the role of L'Aiglon's Edmond Rostand and participated in the creation of Chantecler in 1910.

The most striking feature of her personal life is her brief and passionate affair that began 29 May 1913 with Alain-Fournier, whom she met while he was secretary of her second husband.

She married a third time, to the author François Porché, which she says in his memoirs was a marriage based on their respective common point following for each of them, a passion rudely interrupted.

She lived 108 years, and was a jury member of the Prix Femina from 1935 to 1985, literary salon, friendships and Parisian influences, writing novels, memoirs (Grand Prize for Literature of academy in 1960).

Her unhappy first marriage with actor Le Bargy seems to have served as a model for Jean Cocteau's Bel Indifferent.