The professional mistress of ceremonies Françoise Dumas politely declined to be interviewed for the present profile, saying she prefers "backstage to the limelight". "If I've been lucky enough to have this long career," she told Glitz.paris, "it's by remembering three principles: discretion, diplomacy and hard work". Dumas began working with the creator of France's César cinema awards, Georges Cravenne, at the turn of the 1970s. But her influence on the industry cannot just be summed up by her fine