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Top 10 Outstanding Facts about Marie Lafor锚t

Marie Laforet was a French singer and actress, particularly well-known for her work during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, she moved to Geneva and acquired Swiss citizenship.

She appeared in 35 feature films, numerous television movies, and mini-series, but her music career was even more successful than her work onscreen.

Learn more about Marie Laforet in these top 10 outstanding facts.

1. Marie Laforet Was Born in 1939

She was born on October 5, 1939, at Soulac-sur-Mer in Medoc in the villa 鈥淩ithe-Rilou鈥�, named after her aunt and her mother: Marie Therese and Marie Louise Saint Guily. Marie’s father’s family, Doumenach, were originally from Olette, a village in the Pyrenees Orientales on the border of Tet.

During the second world war, her father, an industry man, was captured and detained as a prisoner of war in Germany until his liberation in May 1945. Marie, his sister Alexandra, and their mother experienced a period of many hardships, and at the age of three, she suffered a sexual trauma that affected her for a long time.

2. During World War II, Marie’s Family Found Shelter at Cahors

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The Doumenachs found shelter at Cahors during World War II and in the province of their ancestors Ariege, in the village Lavelanet. After the war, the family moved to Valenciennes, where the father led a factory for railway utensils.

The family later settled in Paris. Marie started becoming more religious and considered becoming a nun, and she continued her secondary studies at the Lycee La Fontaine in Paris.

While in Secondary, Marie began to show interest in the dramatic arts and her first experiences in this domain proved therapeutically useful for her through their cathartic effect.

3. Marie Laforet Birth Names Have Meaning

Marie Laforet’s actual name was Maitena Marie Brigitte Doumenach. Her first name Maitena, which is of Basque origin, means beloved and is sometimes used by the inhabitants of Languedoc, especially of the Pyrenees. It also resembles the diminutive of the name Marie Therese, Maithe.

Doumenach, her last name, is Catalan in origin-Domenec in Catalan. Her birth name is Maitena Marie Brigitte Doumenach, and her repertoire, which includes pieces inspired by world Folklore, has led to speculation about the Armenian origin of her parents.

4. She Began Her Career in 1959

Marie began her career accidentally in 1959, when she replaced her sister at the last minute in a French radio talent contest, Naissance d鈥檜ne etoile and won. Director Louis Malle then cast the young Marie in the film he was shooting at the time, Liberte a project he later abandoned.

After the Liberte film, she became very popular and interpreted many roles in the 1960s. Marie was married to director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, who cast her in some of his works, including La Fille aux Yeux d鈥橭r, based on the Balzac story.

5. Marie Was Affectionate About Folk Music

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She has been fond of folk music since she began recording in the early 1960s. Marie helped popularize the Bob Dylan song Blowin鈥� in the Wind in France with her 1963 interpretation. On the B-side of the same EP, she sings the classic American folk ballad House of the Rising Sun.

Marie’s other folk recordings include: Viens sur la montagne, a 1964 French adaptation of the African American spiritual Go Tell It on the Mountain recorded by American folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary the previous year, Coule doux.

6. Her Second Film Was 鈥淪aint Tropez Blues鈥�

Marie starred in her second film Saint Tropez Blues, accompanied by a young Jacques Higelin on the guitar; she sang the title song and immediately started releasing singles, her first hit being 1963鈥檚 Les Vendanges de I鈥橝mour.

Her songs offered a more poetic, mature, tender alternative to the light teenage ye-ye tunes charting in France at the time. Marie’s melodies borrowed more from exotic folk music, mainly South American and Eastern European, than contemporary American and British pop acts.

7. Marie Laforet Recorded Rock and Pop Music

In the 1960s, she also recorded some rock songs, her most famous being Marie-douceur, Marie-colere, a 1966 cover of Rolling Stone’s hit Paint It, Black.

Another famous rock was the 1965鈥檚 girl group style A demain, my darling, known by English speakers as The Sha La La Song, written by Marianne Faithfull on her debut eponymous album.

Some of Marie’s most memorable pop songs are those written or arranged by French composer Andre Popp such as Entre toi et moi, Manchester et Liverpool,  and many more. 

Some of the songs gained fame in the former Soviet Union as the background music to the Vremya television news programmes weather forecast in the 1970s.

Marie Laforet’s favourite was the quiet, bittersweet and minimally arranged ballad Je voudrais tant que tu comprennes (1966) composed by Francis Lai. The song was paid homage in the 1980s when French pop superstar Mylene Farmer added it to her concert repertoire.

8. Marie Became a Distinctive Figure in the French Pop Scene in the 1970s

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Her music, especially French pop, stood out in the 1970s, perhaps too much for her new label, CBS Records. It expected her to have more upbeat, more straightforward songs, and she was interested in making more personal records but finally gave in.

Marie’s most financially successful singles were released in the 1970s. She then lost interest in her singing career, moving to Geneva, Switzerland, in 1978, where she opened an art gallery and abandoned music.

9. From 1980 to 2019, Marie Concentrated on Her Acting Career

In the 1980s, she concentrated on her acting career, appearing in a few French and Italian films and eventually releasing some music singles that were not popular. However, in 1993 she came back with her final album for which she wrote the lyrics.

In the 1990s, she continued to work as an actress on screen and stage. Marie performed in several plays in Paris over the years, acclaimed by audiences and critics alike. She resided in Geneva and obtained Swiss citizenship.

10. Marie Laforet Died in 2019

She died on November 2, 2019, in Genolier, Switzerland, a small town in the Nyon district near Geneva, from the consequences of primary bone cancer, as revealed by one of her daughters, Deborah Kahn-Sriber, in 2020.

At the time of her death, she was 80 years old. Her funeral occurred in Paris, at the church on Saint-Eustache, on November 24, 2019, followed by the burial in the family crypt at the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery.