Actress Jacqueline Pagnol dies at 95

DISAPPEARANCE - The actress passed away on 22 August in 95 years with his family. For her, her husband, academician Marcel Pagnol wrote and directed Manon des Sources in 1952.

The actress Jacqueline Pagnol passed away on Monday in Paris. She died at age 95 with his family said his little son Nicolas in a sober and moving statement.

Jacqueline Bouvier was born October 6, 1920 in Ribaute-les-Tavernes Gard. Her husband, academician Marcel Pagnol liked to say that she was "a bit of poetry and tenderness." For her, he wrote and directed Manon des Sources (1952).

She knew restore the taste of creation to Marcel Pagnol after the painful experiences of the Occupation and without his kindness and his love of life, light and clear lines of the two masterpieces that are the glory of the Father and Castle Mother, would probably never flowed from the pen of great writer of Provence on the pages of those old school notebooks he loved.
Jacqueline Pagnol received an Honorary César in 1981

After a first meeting in August 1938, she again crosses Marcel Pagnol in 1945. As a young actress, he enlisted to play Nais. Alongside Fernandel, she was radiant. Jacqueline Bouvier and Marcel Pagnol married the same year.

Since his death in 1974, she had worked tirelessly to immortalize his work including establishing the Literary Prize Marcel Pagnol. She received an Honorary César in 1981 for the entire acting career.

She will now join her husband in the village of La Treille, in one of Cassis stone stele bathed in sunlight, with their daughter Estelle. "Fontes, amicos, uxorem dilexit" - He loved the sources, his friends, his wife - this is the epitaph that the novelist had engraved on his tomb. It will be tomorrow surrounded by everything he liked and certainly by one who has the most cherished.

A ceremony will be held Friday, August 26 at 10:30 at St Honoré d'Eylau in Paris and then to the village of La Treille at a later date.