Editing Roger Vadim (section)

==Early life==
Vadim was born '''Roger Vadim Plemiannikov''' (sometimes transliterated '''Plemiannikoff''') in Paris.<ref>{{cite book|title=501 Movie Directors|editor-first=Steven Jay|editor-last=Schneider|publisher=Cassell Illustrated|year=2007|page=309|isbn=9781844035731}}</ref> His father, Igor Nikolaevich Plemiannikov, a [[White émigré|White Russian]] military officer and pianist, had emigrated from the [[Russian Empire]] and become a naturalized French citizen. He was a [[Diplomatic consulate|vice consul]] of France to [[Egypt]], stationed in [[Alexandria, Egypt|Alexandria]], later posting to [[Mersin]], Turkey as a consul. Vadim's mother, Marie-Antoinette (née Ardilouze),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/72/Roger-Vadim.html|title=Roger Vadim profile at Filmreference.com|access-date=18 December 2012}}</ref> was a stage actress.<ref name="tcmbio"/> He had one sister, Hélène Plemiannikov (1929–2022). Although Vadim lived as a diplomat's child in Northern Africa and the Middle East in his early youth,<ref name="Bosworth2011"/> the death of his father when Vadim was nine years old caused the family to return to France, where his mother found work running a hostel in the [[French Alps]], which functioned as a way-station for Jews and other fugitives fleeing [[Nazism]].<ref name="tcmbio"/>

Vadim studied journalism and writing at the [[University of Paris]], without graduating.<ref name="tcmbio"/>