NY Times :

Stéphane Audran, the French actress who served up one of cinema’s most sumptuous meals as the title character in the 1987 film “Babette’s Feast,” died on Tuesday. She was 85.

Françoise Nyssen, France’s culture minister, announcing her death on Twitter, said that “her presence, her elegance and her inimitable voice remain and resonate.”

Ms. Audran’s son, the actor Thomas Chabrol, told Agence France-Presse that his mother had been ill for some time and had died at home, but he did not give a location.

Although “Babette’s Feast” was her best-known movie internationally — it won the Oscar for best foreign language film in 1988 — Ms. Audran by then had been famous for decades in France, most notably for her work in the films of the director Claude Chabrol, to whom she was married from 1964 to 1980.

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