Personal Life
She married television producer and director Pierre Sabbagh, creator in 1949 of the first daily television news channel in the world. They had no children.
Behind the official image she presented as "la fiancée des français", obsessed with appearance, she was a complex, courageous woman who throughout her life secretly fought illness. She died from multiple sclerosis in 1998 and was buried in Valmondois cemetery near Paris.
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