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Christian-Jaque was a French filmmaker. He began his motion picture career in the 1920s as an art director and production designer. By the early 1930s, he had moved into screenwriting and directing. His 1946 film A Lover's Return was entered into the Cannes Film Festival. He won the Best Director Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival for his popular swashbuckler Fanfan la tulipe. He also won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for the film. From 1954 to 1959, he was married to actress Martine Carol, who starred in several of his films, including Lucrèce Borgia (1953), Madame du Barry (1954), and Nana (1955). He continued working into the mid-1980s, though from 1970 on, most of his work was done for television.