# Claude Pierson

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{{Short description|French filmmaker}}
'''Claude Pierson''' (17 November 1930 &ndash; 19 March 1997) (also known as '''Caroline Joyce''', '''Carolyne Joyce''', '''Carolyn Joyce''', '''Andrée Marchand''', '''André Marchand''' and '''Paul Martin''') was a French film director, writer and producer.<ref name="Rège2009">{{cite book|last=Rège|first=Philippe|title=Encyclopedia of French Film Directors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ud2-AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA600|volume=1|date=11 December 2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6939-4|page=600}}</ref><ref name="Bishop2009">{{cite book|last=Bishop|first=Kyle William|title=Dead Man Still Walking: A Critical Investigation Into the Rise and Fall...and Rise of Zombie Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-JP88D0bUs4C&pg=PA251|year=2009|isbn=978-1-109-16652-1|page=251}}</ref><ref name="Goble1999">{{cite book|last=Goble|first=Alan|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&pg=PA403|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-095194-3|page=403}}</ref><ref name="Dubois2012">{{cite book|last=Dubois|first=Régis|title=Les Noirs dans le cinéma français|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kqodH5He9ZgC&pg=PA142|year=2012|publisher=TheBookEdition|language=French|isbn=978-2-9542012-0-7|page=142}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Claude Pierson |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139959193 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=30 March 2022 |language=French |date=}}</ref>

His most famous film is ''[Justine de Sade](/source/Justine_de_Sade)'' (1972), with [Alice Arno](/source/Alice_Arno) in the lead role, the most faithful adaptation of the famous work of the [Marquis de Sade](/source/Marquis_de_Sade). His other films included ''[Oh, If Only My Monk Would Want](/source/Oh%2C_If_Only_My_Monk_Would_Want) (Ah! Si mon moine voulait...)'', a French-Canadian coproduction, in 1973.<ref>Jack Kapica, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette/176436714/ "Carry on being bawdy"]. ''[Montreal Gazette](/source/Montreal_Gazette)'', August 22, 1973.</ref>

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== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|0682749}}

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