Career
She was also a best-selling author Nicole Milinaire became a French television producer in the 1950s. She produced the 1957 Columbia Broadcasting System series Dick and the Duchess, starring Patrick O"Neal and Hazel Court.
Milinaire was the eldest child of Captain
Paul Schneider, a World War I flying Ace, and Marguerite Durand, of the noble Crouzet de Rayssac (or Raissac) des Roches family on her mother"s side. Nicole, Duchess of Bedford died in September 2012, aged 92.