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Marayat Rollet-Andriane formerly Marayat Krasaesin ((タイ語:มารยาท กระแสสินธุ์)) or her birthname Marayat Bibidh ((タイ語:มารยาท พิพิธ); ; born 19 January 1932 – 12 June 2005), known by the pen name Emmanuelle Arsan, was a French novelist of Eurasian origin, best known for the novel featuring the fictional character Emmanuelle, a woman who sets out on a voyage of sexual self-discovery under varying circumstances. However, it was later claimed that the real author of the book was her husband, Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane. ==Early life== Arsan was born 'Marayat Bibidh' on 19 January 1932 in Bangkok, Thailand, into an aristocratic Siamese family closely connected to the royal family.〔Goux, ''Emmanuelle était un homme'' (2014), p. 130.〕 Marayat's family home was in the affluent Ekkamai district of the Thai capital, where she reportedly discovered her sexuality in the company of her little sister Vasana.〔Goux, ''Emmanuelle était un homme'' (2014), p. 132.〕 After attending primary school in Thailand, Marayat was sent by her parents to Switzerland to continue her studies at the extremely selective Institut Le Rosey boarding school, located in Rolle, Canton of Vaud. The school offered a bilingual English-French education to the offspring of the international elite. It was at a ball there in 1948, that the 16-year-old Marayat first met her future husband, the 30-year-old French diplomat Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane. Although it was love at first sight, they did not marry until 1956, then settling in Thailand, where Louis-Jacques was given a diplomatic posting at the UNESCO mission in Bangkok. Bangkok in the late 1950s was a relatively small, secretive and highly-respectable city. It was not yet the open-air brothel that it would become during the mid-1960s and early 1970s. That change was partly due to the Vietnam War, when thousands of off-duty U.S. servicemen, assigned to the US Air Force airbases in Thailand, flooded the capitals streets in search of cheap sex. They were soon to be followed by Western tourists. It was within the selective atmosphere of the Sports Club that Louis-Jacques and Marayat, with their hedonistic philosophy of communal sex, quickly created a sensation among the expat interlopers, diplomats, pseudo-spies, bored spouses and jet-setters who drifted in and out. As a result, the couple’s reputation soon spread beyond the restricted circle of the initiated, and turned the Thai capital into a popular destination for swingers. It was at this time that they had their first encounter with the idle Italian Prince Dado Ruspoli, who belonged to the international playboy elite of the 1950s, and whose discourse on sex had a profound impact on Marayat and Louis-Jacques. They immediately made Dado their ‘spiritual guide’ and ‘high priest of love’.〔Goux, ''Emmanuelle était un homme'' (2014), p. 130.〕 In 1963, Louis-Jacques was posted to Italy, and for five years the couple resided in both Venice and Rome, where they again met Ruspoli. He introduced them to the high society of transalpine libertinage.〔Goux, ''Emmanuelle était un homme'' (2014), p. 133.〕 From 1968 to 1980, Marayat and her husband often alternated between Paris and Bangkok. ==Literary career== The novel ''Emmanuelle'' was initially published and distributed clandestinely in France in 1959, without an author's name. Successive editions were ascribed to Emmanuelle Arsan, who was subsequently revealed to be Marayat Rollet-Andriane. Though the novel was sometimes hinted to be a quasi-autobiography, it was later revealed that the actual author was her husband Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane.〔(Magazine-litteraire.com )〕〔Francis Leroi, ''70, années érotiques'', éditions La Musardine, 1999.〕〔(Laure )〕 Several more novels were published under the Emmanuelle Arsan pseudonym.〔(Bibliographie d'Emmanauelle Arsan )〕 Following the success of the film adaptation ''Emmanuelle'' (1974) directed by Just Jaeckin, Arsan was the titular director and script-writer of the film ''Laure'' (1976) about the sexual discoveries of a younger "Emmanuelle" named Laure, again in an exotic setting. The film was in fact directed by Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane and Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli,〔Ovidio G. Assonitis, ''Beyond the Screen. Il cinema di Ovidio G. Assonitis'', "Nocturno dossier", n° 82, May 2009, pp. 46–51.〕 though Rollet-Andriane, reportedly frustrated by problems related to his collaboration with the producer, Ovidio G. Assonitis, asked that Emmanuelle Arsan's name not be associated to the project, resulting in the film being credited to an anonymous director.〔 Between 1974 and 1976, Arsan and her husband, in association with Just Jaeckin, published the erotic magazine ''Emmanuelle, le magazine du plaisir'' (‘Emmanuelle, the pleasure magazine’) in France, contributing photographs and text.〔Goux, ''Emmanuelle était un homme'' (2014), pp. 131; 133-134.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emmanuelle Arsan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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