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Thérèse Desqueyroux (other)
Thérèse Desqueyroux may refer to: * ''Thérèse Desqueyroux'' (novel), 1927 French novel by François Mauriac * ''Thérèse Desqueyroux'' (1962 film), French adaptation of Mauriac's novel * ''Thérèse Desqueyroux'' (2012 film), French adaptation of Mauriac's novel See also * Therese (other) {{disambig ...
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Thérèse Desqueyroux (novel)
''Thérèse Desqueyroux'' () is the most famous novel by François Mauriac. Plot The novel is set in the Landes, a sparsely populated area of south-west France covered largely with pine forests. As it opens, a court case is being dismissed. The main character, the titular Thérèse, has been tried for poisoning her husband Bernard by overdosing him with Fowler's Solution, a medicine containing arsenic. Despite strong evidence against her, including prescriptions she forged, the case has been dropped; the family closed ranks to prevent scandal and Bernard himself testified in her defence. On the journey home, Thérèse reflects at length on her life so far, trying to understand what brought her to continue poisoning her husband after she observed him taking an accidental overdose. She suggests that her actions were part of an "imperceptible slope", caused in part by the pressures of motherhood and marriage and the stifling life of a Catholic landowner's wife in 1920s rural Fran ...
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Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962 Film)
''Thérèse Desqueyroux'' is a 1962 French film directed by Georges Franju, based on the novel of the same name by François Mauriac. Written by Franju and François Mauriac and Claude Mauriac, it stars Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret. Riva won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, the Étoile de Cristal award for Best Actress, and the Silver Goddess Award from the Mexican Cinema Journalists for her performance. Plot Thérèse lives in a mansion in the Landes, a region of pine forests, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull and pompous landowner whose only interest is preserving his family name and property. Her only comforts are her fondness for the surrounding woods and her affection for Bernard's half-sister, Anne. When an unwanted baby increases her alienation, her mind turns to the medication on which Bernard is dependent. By secretly increasing the dosage she precipitates a crisis, but it does not prove fatal. After enquiries reveal that she had been forging pre ...
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Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012 Film)
''Thérèse Desqueyroux'' is a 2012 French drama film directed by Claude Miller, based on the 1927 novel of the same name by François Mauriac. The film stars Audrey Tautou and Gilles Lellouche. It closed the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened out of competition. Plot In the south-west of France, in the late 1920s, Thérèse Laroque agrees to a marriage of convenience between wealthy families by marrying Bernard Desqueyroux, a bourgeois landowner. They then settle on his family's property, located in a vast area stretching over acres of pine forests. Bernard is a local man with a passion for hunting and defending the family traditions with conviction. However, Thérèse is quickly stifled by the monotony of her married life. She gives birth to a daughter (Marie), but her boredom seems to grow every day; she is looking "somewhere else". Bernard suffers from an unspecified condition for which he is prescribed arsenic. Thérèse takes the opportunity to attempt to po ...
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