Marie-France Boyer is a French actress, singer and the author of many internationally published non-fiction books on France. She appeared from 1959 until 1976 in more than a dozen feature films and several TV shows.

During her career as actress she worked with many directors, among them François Villiers

François Villiers

The filmmaker François Villiers , Chevalier of the Legion of Honor was a French film director. He was responsible for several films, from Hans le marin in 1949, to Manika, une vie plus tard, in 1989 which won the Prix du Public at Cannes.As a film director and television producer of quality dramas,...

, Henri Verneuil

Henri Verneuil

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, Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda

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, Riccardo Freda

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, Luc de Heusch

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, John Krish

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 and Gilles Grangier.

Marie-France Boyer also had the female leading part in the TV series Quentin Durward

Quentin Durward (TV series)

Quentin Durward was a French-German swashbuckler TV series. It was produced in 1970, directed by Gilles Grangier and broadcast in 1971. The series starred the German actor Amadeus August as the protagonist and the French actress Marie-France Boyer as Isabelle de Croye...

, playing Isabelle de Croye, whose fate becomes a subject of dispute between the Duke of Burgundy and the King of France. As a part of this role she also sings two medieval songs. Isabelle's beauty and loveliness inspire the protagonist to surpass himself and when he is finally offered high positions at either ruler's courts, he refuses both because he rather lives by her side.

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