Régine Deforges (15 August 1935 – 3 April 2014) was a French author, editor, director, and playwright.

[2] Over the years, she has been censored, prosecuted, and heavily fined for publishing "offensive" literature, beginning with Louis Aragon: Irene's Cunt.

[3] One of her novels, La Bicyclette bleue  [fr] (The Blue Bicycle), published in 1981, was France's biggest bestseller.

A story of love, obsession, and survival set during the turmoil of World War II, it developed into a successful series of seven books.

In the initial ruling, Deforges was found guilty of plagiarizing Margaret Mitchell's famous novel Gone with the Wind.