She formed her own production company called Machafilm which co-produced Robert Bresson's Four Nights a Dreamer and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Porcile.
She has written a series of cookbooks and four novels.
She has been given the Officier des Arts et des Lettres, Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite, Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur and Chevalier du Mérite Agricole.
She attended the course of Lee Strasberg at the Actor's Studio in the early '60s as an observer while working as a model in for Harper's Bazaar in New York.