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French director Francois Truffaut stands at right speaking with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve during filming of La Sirene du Mississippi on a city street. scene from Les Quatre Cents Coups Jean-Pierre Leaud and Claude Jade sit at a table, facing each other and holding hands, in a scene from the 1968 film Stolen Kisses directed by Francois Truffaut. Oskar Werner and Jeanne Moreau in Jules et Jim Oskar Werner as Guy Montag and Cyril Cusack as The Captain, both in black uniforms and helmets, burn books in a scene from the 1966 film Fahrenheit 451. Catherine Deneuve sits at a vanity looking into a mirror, with Gerard Depardieu standing behind her, in a scene from the film The Last Metro. Jean-Pierre Leaud and Jacqueline Bisset in a scene from Day for Night, with Leaud in a suit looking at Bisset, who faces forward in a patterned dress and large earrings.
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A full biography is Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana, Truffaut (2000; originally published in French), trans. by Catherine Temerson. Studies include Robert Ingram, Truffaut: The Complete Films (2003); Annette Insdorf, François Truffaut, rev. and updated ed. (1994); David Nicholls, François Truffaut (1993); Don Allen, François Truffaut (1974); C.G. Crisp, François Truffaut (1972); and Graham Petrie, The Cinema of François Truffaut (1970).

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Invalidated site: BBC - Jules and Jim: The relationship that's still taboo. Sep 04, 2026
Anniversary information added. Feb 02, 2026
Anniversary information added. Oct 17, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - Jules and Jim: The relationship that's still taboo. Feb 07, 2025
Add new Web site: NewsMuseum - Francois Truffaut. Aug 29, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 12, 2024
Add new Web site: BFI - Where to begin with François Truffaut. Feb 02, 2024
Add new Web site: Senses of Cinema - Fran�ois Truffaut. Sep 29, 2022
Replaced photograph. May 13, 2021
Article revised and updated. Feb 13, 2020
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Fran�ois Truffaut. Jan 23, 2019
Media added. Apr 06, 2017
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Francois Truffaut Profile. Jul 09, 2014
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Biography of Francois Truffaut. Dec 25, 2011
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Fran�ois Truffaut. Dec 25, 2011
Added photograph. Aug 20, 2010
Added new Web site: The Official Site of Fran�ois Truffaut. Apr 09, 2009
Article revised and updated. Mar 06, 2008
Article revised. Mar 18, 2004
Article revised. Oct 02, 2003
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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