Suicide of Gabrielle Russier
Gabrielle Russier was a French literature teacher. She was prosecuted in 1968 for having an affair with her student Christian Rossi, which caused her to die by suicide on September 1 of the same year.[1][2][3]
Her suicide inspired the 1971 French movie Mourir d'aimer, directed by André Cayatte, and the book The Affair of Gabrielle Russier, also published in '71.[4][5] At the time of her prosecution, Russier was a divorced mother of two children.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Reader, Keith (2005). "The Policing of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair". French Cultural Studies. 16 (1): 5–20. doi:10.1177/0957155805049563. ISSN 0957-1558.
- ^ Geais, Pierrick (2021-03-01). "Mourir d'aimer : La véritable histoire de Gabrielle Russier et Christian Rossi". Vanity Fair (in French). Retrieved 2025-07-24.
- ^ Bouchoux, Corinne (1992). "L'Affaire Gabrielle Russier". Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire (33): 56–64. doi:10.2307/3770094. ISSN 0294-1759.
- ^ ""Mourir d'aimer" : du fait divers au film, la tragédie sèche d'André Cayatte". www.telerama.fr (in French). 2021-02-27. Retrieved 2025-07-24.
- ^ Gallant, Mavis (1971-06-19). "The Case of Gabrielle Russier". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2025-07-24.
- ^ Broyard, Anatole (1971-12-01). "A Truly French Tragicomedy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-24.
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