Florence Delay

Florence Delay (French pronunciation: [flɔʁɑ̃s dəlɛ]; March 19, 1941 – July 1, 2025) was a French writer and actress. She was a member of the Académie française from 2000. Delay notably wrote novels, essays and plays (in collaboration with Jacques Roubaud) and translated texts from Spanish. Delay was also known for portraying Joan of Arc in the 1962 Robert Bresson film The Trial of Joan of Arc

Filmography

La Tragédie du roi Richard II

2015

Sans Soleil

1983

See Here My Love

1979

Apostrophes

1975

Les Deux mémoires

1974

Le Jouet criminel

1969

The Trial of Joan of Arc

1963