Her career began accidentally in 1959 when she replaced her sister at the last minute in a French radio talent contest Naissance d'une étoile (birth of a star) and won.
There she began to show interest for the dramatic arts and her first experiences in this domain proved to be therapeutically useful for her through their cathartic effect. After becoming more religious and having considered becoming a nun, Marie continued her secondary studies at the Lycee La Fontaine in Paris. After the war the family moved to Valenciennes where the father led a factory for railways utensils, and later they settled in Paris. During the war the Doumenachs found shelter at Cahors and in the province of their ancestors Ariège, in the village Lavelanet. At the age of three Marie suffered a sexual trauma which affected her for longtime. Marie, her sister Alexandra and their mother knew a period of many hardships. During the Second World War, the artist's father, industry man, was captured and detained as a prisoner of war in Germany until the liberation in May 1945. The singer's maternal grandfather built "cabanons" in the resort of Soulac-sur-mer, in Gironde in 1886. Her paternal great-grandfather, Louis Doumenach, led a textile factory at Lavelanet, in Ariège and his son, Charles-Joseph Doumenach, was colonel and municipal counsellor. Her father's family, Doumenach, were originally from Olette, a village in the Pyrénées Orientales, on the border of Têt. Marie Laforêt was born at Soulac-sur-Mer, in Médoc, in the villa "Rithé-Rilou", named after her aunt and her mother: Marie Thérese and Marie Louise Saint Guily. from the region of Ariège in the south of France. The singer herself used to define herself sometimes as "ariégeoise", i.e. Her birth name Maïtena Marie Brigitte Doumenach, and her repertoire which included pieces inspired from the world folklore, have led to speculation of an Armenian origin of her parents. Her first name Maïtena, which is of Basque origin, means "beloved", and is sometimes used by the inhabitants of Languedoc, especially of Pyrénées and also resembles the diminutive of the name Marie-Thérèse, "Maïthé".ĭoumenach, her last name, is Catalan in origin – Domènec in Catalan. In 1978, she moved to Geneva, Switzerland and acquired Swiss citizenship. Marie Laforêt (born Maïténa Marie Brigitte Doumenach, on 5 October 1939 in Soulac-sur-Mer, Gironde) is a French singer and actress.
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