Annabel Buffet
Writer and singer Annabelle Buffet, also known as Annabel, was the muse of
painter Bernard Buffet. Born Annabelle Schwob de Lure in Paris on May 10, 1928,
she lost her mother at the age of seven and grew up in Cannes, before taking
acting lessons in Paris. With her slender figure and short haircut, she appeared
in Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants terribles (1950) and Orson Welles' Dossier secret
(1955). She became a fixture of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés scene in the 1950s,
where she made friends with Juliette Gréco and Françoise Sagan, whose lyrics she
sang on her first album 25cm in 1...
