Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Valérie Allain is a French actress. She is best known for her role as "Mireille" in the 1987 instructional television series French in Action, which acquired a cult following largely because of the appeal of the romantic comedic theme of its fifty-two episodes of full-immersion French language lessons. In many scenes in French in Action, Mireille appears braless, in the same way that Stéphanie, her character from the 1985 French film À nous les garçons does. This generated some controversy at the time and was condemned as sexist by some students at Yale University.