Sexual Fables

This article accompanies the fable
The Woman in the Bower


La Princess de Clèves (1678) and the poster for the film version of 1961

Princess-de-Clèves    Princess-of-Cleves-film

 Princess-of-Cleves


The film of 1961 was directed by Jean Delannoy from a screenplay by Jean Cocteau. Cocteau's lover and favorite actor Jean Marais plays the husband and Marina Vlady plays the Princess (above).

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