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1958-1962

1958-1962

Publication of Adrien Lomme. François Truffaut seeks Deligny to design the final scenes from the script of Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows), his first full-length and recipient of the prize for best director in the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. The beginning of a correspondence –and several attempted film collaborations– between Deligny and Truffaut that would last in the 1970s. In 1968, Truffaut’s scriptwriter Suzanne Schiffman travels to the Ceevennes to film Janmari, the model for 1970’s L’Enfant Sauvage. In 1962 the Grande Cordée comes to an end.