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(22 May 2025)
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Paris, France - 22 May 2025
1. Various of Marie-Pierre Pruvot speaking in her Paris home
2. Pruvot's autobiography - titled Bambi - on table
3. Pruvot looking through photos in her autobiography
4. Photo in Pruvot with her family
5. Photo of Pruvot aged 17, while she was still named Jean-Pierre
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Marie-Pierre Pruvot, pioneering transgender performer:
"In the café hall, I hear about the carousel, I hear people saying 'But they are cross-dressers', that is to say, boys who live dressed as women on stage but who then live as men. But there is one called Coccinelle who looked just like what you'd imagine a little Parisian to be like, very chic, and who goes out in the streets and lives constantly dressed as a woman. It stimulated me in an extraordinary way. I thought to myself, well, if she does it in Paris, I'll do it in Algiers and I'll have my friend in Algiers, the one I fell in love with. But it turns out things are not that easy. So I went to see the show and I was delighted and I thought if I can't live like that in Algiers, I'll go to Paris, I have to go to Paris."
7. Pruvot speaking
8. Portrait photos of Bambi
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Marie-Pierre Pruvot, pioneering transgender performer:
"And we start making hormones, etc, because it starts to be free and to be known because free, it was. There was no prescription at the time for hormones, we bought them like we buy salt and pepper at the grocery store."
10. Various of Pruvot looking through photos
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Marie-Pierre Pruvot, pioneering transgender performer:
"People wanted to have fun, wanted to laugh, and you could really feel in the Montmartre cabaret, which was at Madame Arthur's, how much people demanded to have fun, to laugh, to be happy. They wanted to be, they wanted to enjoy life because, after all, the war had been over since 1945. But in 1953, 1954, you could still feel this need to live again. There were rapid progressions being made because restrictions had lasted a long time after the war, with rationing for buying flour, for buying bread. All that had lasted a long time and so we were freed from all that. You felt a freedom among the people and a desire for life, a desire to be happy, a desire to forget the miseries of the war."
12. Pruvot looking through photos
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Marie-Pierre Pruvot, pioneering transgender performer:
"It was a dinner, I was with Charles Trenet and we were having dinner in Juan-les-Pins, we were having dinner together in the evening and Edith Piaf came to join us. She was joking, she was funny, she was having a lot of fun with us, etc. And all of a sudden, she thinks - we were in Juan-les-Pins - we think of (Charles) Aznavour and Aznavour was doing a gala right next door, in the establishment next door. And then? She says 'Aznavour is doing a gala, I think'. We say 'Yes yes, he is going to perform now, we're going to hear him from here because the gala is outdoors'. She says 'Oh really, what time does it end?' He says 'Oh really, we don't know what time it's going to end?' Then she says 'Well tell me what time it starts?' Then she says 'Well it starts at midnight'. She says 'Well then it will be over at five past midnight'... She joked but she liked Aznavour a lot, Aznavour owed her a lot."
14. Various of Pruvot looking through photos
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Marie-Pierre Pruvot, pioneering transgender performer:
16. Various of small deer figurine on bookshelf, symbolizing Bambi, made by Pruvot's friend
18. Various of Pruvot with feather scarf
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