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Marie Mansart

French actress (1925–2012)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ3292679 ↗
Source-derived summary

Marie Mansart (1925–2012) was a French film and television actress. She played the female lead in several films during the early 1950s.

Selected filmography

The Big Flag (1954)

Stain in the Snow (1954)

Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)

Napoleon (1955)

Recourse in Grace (1960)

Café du square (1969, TV series)

Two English Girls (1971)

Mado (1976)

The Tiger Brigades (1978, TV series)

Dedicatoria (1980)

References

Bibliography

Biggs, Melissa E. French films, 1945-1993: a critical filmography of the 400 most important releases. McFarland & Company, 1996.

Holmes, Diana & Ingram, Robert. Francois Truffaut. Manchester University Press, 2019.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Marie Mansart” as french actress (1925–2012). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925, 2012, 1954, 1955—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1925-03-05. The account is most persuasive where Marie, Mansart and French can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as french actress (1925–2012). 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 Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3292679. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1925, 2012, 1954 and 1955.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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 “Marie Mansart” 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.