Chantal Nobel is mostly known for having played the lead female role of Florence Berg in the successful French television series
Châteauvallon. After having participated at the
Dakar Rally with , her career ended suddenly on 28 April 1985. After the broadcast of an episode of the television program
Champs-Élysées, she was victim of a serious automobile accident involving a car driven by the singer
Sacha Distel, during a trip to the village of Maltaverne, a small village outside
Tracy-sur-Loire. After six weeks in a
coma, with severe facial injuries and disabled for life, she left the media to go to the South of France, the series
Châteauvallon ending at the same time. She filed a lawsuit against Sacha Distel, who was then sentenced to one year in prison for involuntary injuries. During her hospitalization in 1985, three
paparazzi entered her hospital room to take pictures of her against her will. The affair was followed with a condemnation of the paparazzi. The jurisprudence of the
Court of Appeal of
Paris on 17 March 1986, expanded the notion of domicile respect, indicating that the hospital room was considered as the private domicile of the patient during the recovery. == Personal life ==