Cent ans, c'est passé si vite

Synopsis of Cent ans, c'est passé si vite

«Cent ans, c'est passé si vite» is the autobiographical account by Gisèle Casadesus and Éric Denimal (J'ai lu, paperback, 253 pages, in French).

Autobiographical account by actress Gisèle Casadesus, born in 1914 into a family of musicians, who dreamed of being a comedian and a mother and fulfilled both wishes. It covers her career at the Comédie-Française, in film and television, her marriage to Lucien Probst and the raising of her four children, across a century of wars and social change.

The cover includes the slogan «Un livre qui rend heureux». The memoirs, written with Éric Denimal, were published in 2015.

Recommended for those who enjoy biographies of performers and accounts of twentieth-century French cultural life.