Emmanuelle Arsan
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Marayat Rollet-Andriane born as Marayat Bibidh (born 1932 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a French writer of Eurasian origin, most famous for creating the fictional character Emmanuelle (under the pseudonym Emmanuelle Arsan), a woman who engages in an exploration of her own sexuality under varying circumstances.
At the age of 16 Arsan was married to a French diplomat at UNESCO, Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane. Her novel Emmanuelle, presumably a quasi-autobiography, was published and distributed clandestinely in France in 1957. Following the success of her film Emmanuelle in 1974, Arsan directed the film Laure (1975) about the sexual discoveries of a younger "Emmanuelle" named Laure in yet another exotic surroundings.
She had also appeared on screen under the stage name Marayat Andriane in the 1966 film The Sand Pebbles and in the 1967 episode "Turn of a Card" of the U.S. series The Big Valley.
