Claude Pierson

Claude Pierson (17 November 1930 – 19 March 1997) (also known as Caroline Joyce, Carolyne Joyce, Carolyn Joyce, Andrée Marchand, André Marchand and Paul Martin) was a French film director, writer and producer.{{cite book|last=Rège|first=Philippe|title=Encyclopedia of French Film Directors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ud2-AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA600|volume=1|date=11 December 2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6939-4|page=600}}{{cite book|last=Bishop|first=Kyle William|title=Dead Man Still Walking: A Critical Investigation Into the Rise and Fall...and Rise of Zombie Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-JP88D0bUs4C&pg=PA251|year=2009|isbn=978-1-109-16652-1|page=251}}{{cite book|last=Goble|first=Alan|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&pg=PA403|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-095194-3|page=403}}{{cite book|last=Dubois|first=Régis|title=Les Noirs dans le cinéma français|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kqodH5He9ZgC&pg=PA142|year=2012|publisher=TheBookEdition|language=French|isbn=978-2-9542012-0-7|page=142}}{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Claude Pierson |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139959193 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=30 March 2022 |language=French |date=}}

His most famous film is Justine de Sade (1972), with Alice Arno in the lead role, the most faithful adaptation of the famous work of the Marquis de Sade.