Bel-Ami

In 1976 Reems starred in an X-rated picture, directed by the semi-great George DuRoy, called Bel-Ami, which was a horny-'n'-porny take on a slim novel written by Guy de Maupassant, whose life came to a sad end when he went mad with the syphilis.

the latest from teenvogue.com 2009

While the setting is Dutch, the influences are French – think Bel-Ami, Les Liaisons dangereuses and Gide's L'immoraliste.

History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason – review 2011

Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career.

Robert Pattinson & Nicole Kidman – Bel Ami 2009

Written when Maupassant was at the height of his powers, Bel-Ami is a novel of great frankness and cynicism, but it is also infused with the sheer joy of life depicting the scenes and characters of Paris in the belle epoque with wit, sensitivity and humanity.

Robert Pattinson & Nicole Kidman – Bel Ami 2009

In the same fruitful few years of recovery from the physical battle against barbarism, the petite nineteenth-century French novels that buttressed the achievement of Madame Bovary and sometimes even preceded it — Constant's Adolphe, Maupassant's Bel-Ami, Daudet's Sappho — were translated by people who saw fidelity to them as a delightful but temporary duty, not as part of a long slog to corner a market.

No Way, Madame Bovary 2004

In the same fruitful few years of recovery from the physical battle against barbarism, the petite nineteenth-century French novels that buttressed the achievement of Madame Bovary and sometimes even preceded it — Constant's Adolphe, Maupassant's Bel-Ami, Daudet's Sappho — were translated by people who saw fidelity to them as a delightful but temporary duty, not as part of a long slog to corner a market.

No Way, Madame Bovary 2004

At first she prayed fervently, but as she raised her eyes and saw the resemblance to Bel-Ami, she murmured:

Bel Ami 2003

“Yes, my dear, she no longer calls you Bel-Ami, but M. Forestier instead.”

Bel Ami 2003

Suddenly to his amazement, she exclaimed: “Good evening, Bel-Ami; do you not remember me?”

Bel Ami 2003

Bel-Ami had posted that epistle when he left Paris, having prepared it the night of his departure.

Bel Ami 2003