Tautou's character, a woman with a water lily growing in her lung, was the locus of Michel Gondry's absurdist fantasy L'Écume des jours (2013; Mood Indigo).
The myth of this disillusioned youth, its district of Paris, its innocence, its jazz clubs, and its worship of Sartre were captured in Boris Vian's L'Écume des jours (1947; Froth on the Daydream).
Bunuel's Belle de Jour (1967) was a huge box-office and critical success.
The Library acquired, also last week, an 1869 edition of Métamorphoses du jour (1869) which established his fame worldwide in 1828-29.
His first novel, Faux jour (1934), won the Prix du Roman Populiste, and his fifth, L'Araigne (1938; The Web, 1984), was awarded the Prix Goncourt.
Mr Modoff describes the situation as a "soup du jour": "Today one brand is hot, and tomorrow it's leftovers," he says.
She has one server try to sell her the plat du jour — today, the bouillabaisse — as if she were a customer; she chides him about his pronunciation.
Also noteworthy is Le Poids du jour (1948; "The Heaviness of the Day"), which is centred on life in the city.
Other novels in the series included Death du Jour (1999), Bare Bones (2003), Devil Bones (2008), Bones of the Lost (2013), and Speaking in Bones (2015).
The Library acquired, also last week, an 1869 edition of Métamorphoses du jour (1869) – a publication which established his fame in 1828-29.
