2/2 Maud is only a divorcee - she hasn't broken up a marriage. The bland casting of his love interest belies the shallowness of the character beneath the exterior.

And Yes, who could not be drawn to Françoise Fabian...?? Did you need to ask?

1/2 Spoiler alert: Jean-Louis is enamored of an ideal...a young, blonde, chaste (so he thinks), devout blond woman...he is in love with a concept not an actual person. And all that he thinks that she is, she is not...she is actually the adulterer in the film.

Thanks for the good words!