The shattered youth of Françoise Dorléac, iconic actress of Les Demoiselles de Rochefort whose death shook French cinema
data-modal-image-caption=After taking her first steps in cinema in 1957, actress Françoise Dorléac saw her career take off in The Man from Rio, where Philippe de Broca hired her to be Jean-Paul Belmondo's partner. data-modal-image-credit=Diltz / Bridgeman Images> 
Every day, Le Figaro recounts the fatal car accident of a celebrity. Today, the story of the actress whose red Renault 8 skidded on June 26, 1967, on the slippery road of the Estérel road.
"I was on the slip road leading to Cagnes-sur-Mer . A car driven by a woman asked me for passage, overtook me at high speed and, by cutting in too abruptly, skidded. The driver braked on the road, which was made slippery by the light rain that was falling. The car crossed the entire road and violently hit a concrete post. The R8 immediately caught fire," declared Roger Guilliano. His testimony was reported in Le Figaro two days after the tragedy. It was impossible to get the young woman out of her small red car that she had rented. A half-burned checkbook, a small pocket diary and a driving licence allowed Françoise Dorléac to be identified.
On June 26, 1967, the actress was driving to Nice airport to catch the Caravelle, which was due to leave for Orly at 7:20 p.m. She was in a hurry to join her boyfriend. According to another version, she was heading to Paris to catch a flight to London, where the film The…
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