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Jean Aurel

French screenwriter and film director (1925–1996)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ336795 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jean Aurel (6 November 1925 in Rastolita, Romania – 24 August 1996 in Paris) was a Romanian-born French film director and scriptwriter. Notably, he co-wrote La Femme d'à côté (The Woman Next Door) with François Truffaut and Suzanne Schiffman.

Selected filmography

Mata Hari's Daughter (1954)

Frou-Frou (1955)

Maid in Paris (1956)

Women's Club (1956)

It Happened in Aden (1956)

Gates of Paris (1957)

Une Parisienne (1957)

Taxi, Roulotte et Corrida (1958)

Le Trou (1960)

Please, Not Now!

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jean Aurel” as french screenwriter and film director (1925–1996). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925, 1996, 1954, 1955—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1925-11-06. The account is most persuasive where Jean, Aurel and French can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as french screenwriter and film director (1925–1996). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q336795. VIAF identifies the subject as 68984017. The Library of Congress control number is nr00021790. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1925, 1996, 1954 and 1955.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jean Aurel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.