Sylvia Bataille

French actress (1908–1993)

Georges Bataille

(m. 1928; div. 1946)

Jacques Lacan

(m. 1953; died 1981)

Sylvia Bataille (born Sylvia Maklès; 1 November 1908 – 22 December 1993)^[1]^[2]^[a] was a French actress of Romanian-Jewish descent.^[3] When she was twenty, she married the writer Georges Bataille with whom she had a daughter, the psychoanalyst Laurence Bataille (1930–1986).^[4] Georges Bataille and Sylvia separated in 1934 but did not divorce until 1946. Starting in 1938, she was a companion of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan with whom, in 1941, she had a daughter, Judith (married name Judith Miller). Sylvia Bataille married Jacques Lacan in 1953.

A pupil of Charles Dullin, Bataille's theatrical debut was with the agit-prop troupe Groupe Octobre, directed by Jacques Prévert. Her film debut came in 1933, and in 1936 she played her most memorable role in Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country) directed by Jean Renoir. Her final appearance was in 1950.

Filmography

1930: The Tale of the Fox animated, feature film by Ladislas Starevitch, voice of Rabbit
1930: La Joie d'une heure, short film by André Cerf
1933: The Faceless Voice by Léo Mittler
1934: Por un perro chico, una mujer (Un chien qui raccroche), short film by Santiago de la Concha - Santiago Ontañón
1934: Skylark by Jean Tarride
1935: His Excellency Antonin by Charles-Félix Tavano
1936: Topaze by Marcel Pagnol
1936: Rose by Raymond Rouleau
1936: Partie de campagne by Jean Renoir
1936: Œil de lynx, détective by Pierre-Jean Ducis
1936: The Crime of Monsieur Lange by Jean Renoir
1936: Jenny by Marcel Carné
1937: Vous n'avez rien à déclarer? by Léo Joannon
1937: Le Gagnant (short film) by Yves Allégret
1937: The Courier of Lyon by Maurice Lehmann and Claude Autant-Lara
1937: Forfaiture (released as The Cheat in English) by Marcel L'Herbier
1937: White Cargo by Robert Siodmak
1938: Frères corses by Géo Kelber
1938: People Who Travel (Les Gens du voyage in French) by Jacques Feyder
1939: Le Château des quatre obèses by Yvan Noé
1939: Serge Panine by Charles Méré
1939: L'Étrange nuit de Noël by Yvan Noé
1939: Latin Quarter by Pierre Colombier
1940: Hangman's Noose by Léon Mathot
1940: Camp Thirteen by Jacques Constant
1941: L'Enfer des anges by Christian-Jaque
1945: Ils étaient cinq permissionnaires by Pierre Caron
1946: Gates of the Night by Marcel Carné
1948: Ulysse ou Les Mauvaises Rencontres, short film (also known as Aller et retour) by Alexandre Astruc
1948: L'Amore, anthology film by Roberto Rossellini
1950: Julie de Carneilhan by Jacques Manuel

Notes

^ Bataille's year of birth is sometimes given as 1912. See Hunt, footnote on p. 107.

References

^ Hunt, Jamer Kennedy (April 1995). Absence to Presence: The Life History of Sylvia [Bataille] Lacan (France) (Thesis). Rice University. pp. ii, 105, 107, 188–191. hdl:1911/16832. Retrieved 18 October 2021 – via Rice Digital Scholarship Archive.
^ "Sylvia Bataille". Cinémathèque française (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2021.
^ Michel Surya (2002) Georges Bataille: an intellectual biography, page 147
^ Roudinesco, Élisabeth; Plon, Michel; et al. (2004). Wörterbuch der Psychoanalyse: Namen, Länder, Werke, Begriffe. Austria: Springer. p. 588. ISBN 978-3-211-83748-1. Sie war die Mutter einer kleinen Tochter, Laurence Bataille (1930–1986)...

Bibliography

Hunt, Jamer Kennedy (1995). Absence to presence: The life history of Sylvia [Bataille] Lacan (France). Rice University Electronic Theses and Dissertations (Thesis). hdl:1911/16832. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
"Sylvia Bataille". Cinémathèque française (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2021.