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Michel Cournot (1 May 1922 – 8 February 2007) was a French journalist, screenwriter and film director. As a writer he was awarded the Fénéon Prize in 1949 for Martinique. His only film as a director, Les Gauloises bleues, was due to be entered at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival,[1] but the festival was cancelled because of the events of May 1968 in France.

Michel Cournot
Born	(1922-05-01)1 May 1922 Paris, France
Died	8 February 2007(2007-02-08) (aged 84) Paris, France
Occupation	Journalist, screenwriter, film director
Years active	1961–1988

He received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989, as cowriter with Claude Fournier and Marie-José Raymond of the Canadian television miniseries The Mills of Power (Les Tisserands du pouvoir).[2]

Selected filmography

• Les Gauloises bleues (1968)

References

External links

• Michel Cournot at IMDb

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