An excerpt from the novel is featured on the music album Comme si de rien n'était by Carla Bruni (track 2).
Comme des Garçons | Rien ne s'arrête | Rien Poortvliet | Non, je ne regrette rien | Comme d'habitude | Sibérie m'était contéee | Comme si de rien n'était | Ce n'était qu'un rêve | The narrator declares that Marcas is "semblable à Pitt, qui s'était donné l'Angleterre pour femme" ("like William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Si c'était à refaire | Rien ne me changera | Presque rien | L'amour n'est rien... | Comme des Garcons | C'était un rendez-vous |
C'était un Rendez-vous ("It was a date") is a short film (under 10 minutes) made in 1976 by Claude Lelouch, showing a high speed drive through Paris.
The year 2005 also saw the release of Just Like Heaven, the adaptation by Dreamworks of Et si c'était vrai..., starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo.
Robert Hossein gave her the opportunity to make her debuts on stage in 1970 in an adaptation of Georges Simenon's novel La Neige était sale.
A member of the vampire council; although translated in the novels as "lover of death," his name more accurately translates to "death of love" or "death from love." (For example, Aloysius Bertrand's poem "Madam de Montbazon" includes the line "Elle était morte d'amour, rendant son âme dans le parfum d'une jacinthe," which translates to "She had died of love, leaving her soul in the perfume of a hyacinth.")