Personal Life
Her 1956 marriage to Lesaffre (who maintained an ongoing, probably homosexual, liaison with Carné) was childless, and ended in divorce in 1962. Lesaffre claimed in his autobiography Mataf (éditions Pygmalion, 1991), that theirs was the first Franco-Japanese marriage after WWII --- conceivably true, but almost impossible to verify. (True or not, it may have begun something of a trend, since Kishi Keiko and Yves Ciampi were married the following year.)
She died in Paris, after a long illness, but is buried in the remote seaside village of Binic, in Brittany. Her tomb carries the Breton inscription «Ganeoc'h Bepred». Notably, her late husband Lesaffre is buried together with Marcel Carné in his grave in the Cimetière Saint-Vincent in Montmartre.
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