Chabrol was a prolific film-maker One of France’s best-known film directors, Claude Chabrol, has died at the age of 80, according to the AFP news agency.
Chabrol is best known for 1960s and 70s thrillers, such as The Unfaithful Wife, The Butcher and This Man Must Die.
He was a member of the French new wave movement, which included contemporaries such as Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and Jaques Rivette.
Chabrol has averaged almost one film a year since 1958.
Paris deputy mayor, Christophe Girard, broke the news to AFP.
He described the director as “an immense French film director, free, impertinent, political and verbose.”
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