The Double Contempt

Story

Synopsis

In Paris, under the Restoration, Julie de Chaverny, a young woman admired and envied by all, has been suffering for six years from an unhappy marriage to her husband, M. de Chaverny. She finally gives in to the advances of a young man she's known since childhood, deciding at last to live her own life. She wants to run away with him, but discovers it's only a passing fancy. Feeling disgraced and laughed at, she sets off for Nice to join her mother.

Director

Jean-Pierre Marchand

Writers

Prosper Mérimée, Bernard Minoret, Danielle Vezolle

Language

French

Country

France

Release date

2 April 1967

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Françoise Dorléac

  Julie

• 

  Henri Piégay

  Châteaufort

• 

  André Oumansky

  Chaverny

• 

  Amarande

  Mélanie Rampeau

• 

  Jean Galland

  Duke of Havre

• 

  Laurence Badie

  Marie

• 

  Claude Mansard

  Léon

• 

  Jacques Boudet

  Domestic

• Hélène Boucault

  Gertrude

• 

  Michel Bouquet

  Reciter (voice)

• Jean Bourgogne

  Doctor

• 

  Marcel Champel

  Coachman