Jeanne Moreau
PARIS (AP) — French actress Jeanne Moreau, the smoky-voiced femme fatale of the French New Wave who starred in Francois Truffaut’s love triangle film “Jules and Jim” and worked with many other acclaimed directors during a decades-long career, has died at 89.
Outspoken, provocative and acting well into her 80s, Moreau was among France’s mostrecognized performers. President Emmanuel Macron celebrated Moreau for going beyond earlier roles as a screen siren to embrace other genres, starring in comedies and action films.
“That was her freedom ... always rebellious against the established order,” Macron said in a statement. “(She had) a spark in her eye that defied reverence and was an invitation to insolence, to liberty, to this whirlpool of life that she loved so much. And that she made us love.”
The president’s office and Moreau’s agent announced her death Monday without providing a cause.
Starting in the early 1960s, Moreau was the most prominent actress of the French New Wave, with her brooding, downturned mouth and distinctive blend of sensuality, intellect and resolve. Her performance as Catherine in Truffaut’s 1962 “Jules and Jim,” in which she played the love interest in a groundbreaking romance about two friends vying for the same woman, was among her most well-known. She also worked with Truffaut on the Hitchcock-inspired thriller “The Bride Wore Black,” in which she starred as a woman who tracks down the men who murdered her husband on her wedding day. THURSDAY
will meet Thursday at noon at the Landmark Restaurant on Martha Berry Highway. The guest speaker will be Associate Professor Barsha Pickell, Shorter University. The program is titled “If men were angels … The importance of virtue in the American Revolution and US Constitution.” For more information call Dick Richter at 706-857-7995.
will meet at 1 p.m. on Thursday at the Rome Federated Garden Clubs, 100 E. Eighth St. The program will be presented by Kathy Spissman from Atlanta. She will speak about Streps and other Gesneriads. For more information call 706-295-3751.
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Low Country Boil & Barbecue on Friday at the Rome Civic Center on Jackson Hill. Doors will open at 7 p.m. There will be an open bar, all-you-can-eat buffet, silent and live auction items, and potted plant centerpieces for sale. Tickets are $75 for individuals, tables for eight are $600, and tables for 10 are $750. Portions of each ticket sale are tax-deductible. All proceeds will benefit the museum. Visit
Faith and Deeds Community Health will host its fifth annual Tomato Sandwich Supper on Friday from 5-7 p.m. at Rome First United Methodist Church, 202 E. Third Ave. There will be music by the Georgia Mountain Music Club, live and silent auctions, and door prizes. Tickets are $10 each or $25 for a family of three or more. Proceeds will provide primary healthcare
to the uninsured of Floyd, Polk and Chattooga counties.
1902 Stock Exchange & Public Square Opera House, 124 Public Square, Adairsville, will present “Leaving Iowa,” a road-trip comedy, in a dinner-theater format Aug. 4-5. All shows will begin at 7 p.m. The cost of dinner and the show is $50, and reservations are required. Call 770773-1902 to make reservations.