The Beautiful Person is a 2008 French teen comedy-drama film directed by Christophe Honoré from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gilles Taurand. It is a modernised adaptation of the 1678 French novel La
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François de Vendôme, Vidame de Chartres, was a successful soldier and glamorous courtier who figures in accounts of the brilliant but decadent French court of the 1550s.
Drawing with colour by François Clouet, about 1550
The medieval Château de la Ferté Vidame, built by the Vendômes
Drawing with colour, workshop of François Clouet, about 1550
Drawing with colour, workshop of François Clouet, c. 1540s