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False Servant

2000 film by Benoît Jacquot

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ3208651 ↗
Source-derived summary

False Servant (French: La Fausse Suivante) is a 2000 French comedy-drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot and starring Isabelle Huppert.

Plot

A young woman disguises herself as a knight to expose a gold-digging man divided between her and a Countess.

Editorial summary

“False Servant” enters the record as 2000 film by Benoît Jacquot. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what False, Servant and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around False, Servant and film.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“False Servant” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, False, Servant and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3208651. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. 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.

How to read it

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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “False Servant”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow False Servant primary sources, False Servant archive and False research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “False Servant” 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.