 Following this experience, she co-produced the initiative for the first French television channel, a film in three episodes from the book by Luigi Barzini "Italians", published by Gallimard in 1966.It was during this trip that Visconti asked her to play the duchesse de Guermantes in his next film "In Search ..." based on the novel by Marcel Proust, she agreed.The film was cancelled after Visconti fell sick.