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Éric Rohmer's real name was Jean Marie Maurice Schérer, also recorded as Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer. He adopted the pseudonym Éric Rohmer in 1955, combining the names of director Erich von Stroheim and writer Sax Rohmer, so that his family would not discover his involvement in the film world.
The Six Moral Tales are a film cycle in which each story follows a man committed to one woman who is tempted by a second and returns to the first. The six films are The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963), Suzanne's Career (1963), La Collectionneuse (1967), My Night at Maud's (1969), Claire's Knee (1970), and Love in the Afternoon (1972). Rohmer drew the cycle's premise from F. W. Murnau's 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.
Rohmer won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Green Ray in 1986 and received the Venice Film Festival's Career Golden Lion in 2001. Claire's Knee won the Grand Prix at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 1971, and My Night at Maud's received Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Film.
Rohmer edited Cahiers du Cinéma from 1956 (some sources note his appointment as editor in 1956, with his time on staff beginning in 1951) through 1963, when he resigned and was succeeded by Jacques Rivette. In 1950 he had co-founded the earlier La Gazette du Cinéma with Rivette and Godard, though that magazine was short-lived.
In 1957, Rohmer and Claude Chabrol co-authored Hitchcock, published by Éditions Universitaires in Paris. It was the earliest book-length study of Alfred Hitchcock, focusing on the director's Catholic background. The book has been described as one of the most influential film books since the Second World War and helped establish the auteur theory as a critical method.
Rohmer died on the morning of the 11th of January 2010, at the age of 89, after a series of strokes. He is buried in district 13 of Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.