Jeanne Cressanges

Jeanne Cressanges, real name Jeanne Mouchonnier (6 May 1929 – 27 July 2024) was a French screenwriter, dialoguist, essayist, and novelist.

Biography Jeanne Cressanges was born in a modest family of the Bourbonnais. Her paternal family was a family of plasterers-painters from Dompierre-sur-Besbre, Her maternal family was a peasant family of Noyant-d'Allier. Her father, Jules Mouchonnier, worked for the railways. She grew up in Saint-Sornin, in the Bourbonnaise countryside.

Between 1960 and 1970, she was a reader at Éditions Julliard and a columnist at Les Nouvelles littéraires. In 1968, she moved to Épinal, to follow her husband. The Vosges department was the setting for several of his novels, like Les Eaux rouges and Le Luthier de Mirecourt.

Cressanges died on 27 July 2024, at the age of 95.

Works Novels 1959: La Femme et le manuscrit, Éditions Grasset 1962: La Feuille de bétel, Casterman. 1963: Le Cœur en tête, Casterman – Prix de la ville de Vichy 1964 1967: La Part du soleil, Julliard 1969: La Chambre interdite, Julliard 1973: Mourir à Djerba, Éditions Denoël 1984: La Mariée de Saint-Médard, Flammarion – Jeanne Cressanges was host of Bernard Pivot in Apostrophes for this novel 1988: Les Eaux rouges, F. Bourin – Jeanne Cressanges was host of Bernard Pivot in Apostrophes for this novel 1995: Les Trois Naissances de Virgine, Julliard – Prix Allen 1997: Un Amour de 48 heures, Flammarion 1999: Le Luthier de Mirecourt, Denoël 2002: Les Ailes d'Isis, – Feuille d'or de la ville de Nancy 2005: Le Soleil des pierres, Le Cherche midi – Prix Erckmann-Chatrian 2019: Un père en héritage, S. Domini éd. Essays 1976: Les chagrins d'amour, Grasset 1979: La vraie vie des femmes commence à quarante ans, Grasset 1982: Ce que les femmes n'ont jamais dit, Grasset – Jeanne Cressanges was host of Bernard Pivot in Apostrophes for this essay 1986: Parlez-moi d’amour, Flammarion 1992: Seules François Bourin Tale 1995: La Petite Fille aux doigts tachés d'encre, Flammarion Short stories 2012: Soledades, Ed. du Murmure 2014: Rencontres, Ed. du Murmure 2016: Entre deux sourires, S. Domini éd. Trivia 2009: Je vous écris d'Épinal, S. Domini éd. 2011: Je vous écris du Bourbonnais. S. Domini éd. – Prix Allen 2014: Mes Vosges. Itinéraires amoureux, S. Domini éd. Cinematographic adaptations, scenarios and dialogues 1968: L'Étrangère, film by Sergio Gobbi, in collaboration with the director 1969: Maldonne, film by Sergio Gobbi, in collaboration with the director 1969: , film by Sergio Gobbi, in collaboration with the director 1970: Delphine, film by Éric Le Hung, in collaboration with the diretor 1971: La Fin d'une liaison, telefilm by , adapted from the novel by Graham Greene 1973: La Feuille de bétel, serial in four episodes by , adapted from her novel La Feuille de bétel