The novel has had three film adaptations, two French and one Québécois: in 1934, by Julien Duvivier, with Madeleine Renaud (as Maria Chapdelaine), and Jean Gabin (as François Paradis), partly filmed in Péribonka; in 1950 by Marc Allégret in a free interpretation of the work called The Naked Heart; and in 1984 by Gilles Carle with Carole Laure.
In 1975, he became the youngest assistant (staging) of the company Renaud-Barrault alongside Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault in the Theatre d'Orsay-Gare d'Orsay in Paris.
Madeleine Albright | Madeleine L'Engle | Renaud | Line Renaud | Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland | Madeleine Renaud | Madeleine Vionnet | Madeleine Stowe | Madeleine Peyroux | Madeleine | Renaud Van Ruymbeke | Madeleine Robinson | Madeleine de Scudéry | Wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O'Neill | Madeleine Chéruit | Madeleine Begun Kane | Renaud van Ruymbeke | Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc | Maurice Renaud | Madeleine Lemaire | Madeleine Bordallo | La Madeleine | Renaud Laplanche | Renaud Dutreil | Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres | Renaud de Courtenay | Renaud Brothers | Raymond Renaud | Princess Madeleine's wedding | Marie-Madeleine Guimard |
In the post-war years, the Theatre du Rond-Point was one of the principal venues—along with the Theatre Marigny and the Theatre de l'Odeon—where the Madeleine Renaud-Jean-Louis Barrault Company introduced the world to many of the plays of Jean Giraudoux, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Anouilh, and Samuel Beckett.