Cécile de Maron

Cécile de Maron †
Yvonne Burbach as Cécile de Maron
Verbotene Liebe character
Portrayed by	Yvonne Burbach
Duration	2001-2006
First appearance	Episode 1617 24 October 2001
Last appearance	Episode 2621 23 January 2006
Profile
Occupation	Former Manager of the No Limit Former employee of the Lahnstein Holding Former Owner of the Anstetten stud farm Former horse jockey
Parents Konstanze de Maron (deceased) Spouse Johannes von Lahnstein (divorced; deceased) [2004-2005] Leonard von Lahnstein (dissolved) [2006] Children Julius de Maron (deceased)

Cécile Antoinette de Maron (formerly von Lahnstein) is a fictional character on the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love). The role was portrayed by actress Yvonne Burbach from 24 October 2001 to 23 January 2006.

The beautiful Cécile came in 2001 from Paris to Düsseldorf to live without the strictly morals of her aristocratic family. She suffers under multiple sclerosis and is a big fan of horses. On the race course she meets Henning von Anstetten (Patrik Fichte), who falls instantly in love with her. Cécile discovers soon, that she has feelings for Henning too, but because of her disease she doesn't want a relationship with him. In this time, Charlie Schneider (Gabrile Metzger) becomes a great friend of Cécile. But her love to Henning is stronger and they find to each other. Cécile gets even more happy, when Henning asks her to marry him. But when comes out that Henning and Marie von Anstetten (Solveig Duda) aren't related, as they thought after an intrigue by Tanja von Anstetten (Miriam Lahnstein), Henning discovers that he never stopped loving Marie. When Cécile finds out about that, she bursts the wedding. Cécile suffers under Henning's love for Marie and the thought that he never loved her. In her lovesickness, she spends a night with Mark Roloff (Carsten Spengemann), who was left by Marie because of the same reason.

After her painful love for Henning, she meets the construction worker Robin Brandner (Nils Brunkhorst), who comes only from a middle-class family. Robin soon falls in love with her as well as Cécile can't deny the feelings for him. In spite of the class distinction, Cécile and Robin become a couple, but this brings Cécile's mother Konstanze (Karin von Ostholt) into town, who wants to break up this relationship. Konstanze doesn't leave a moment to stultified Robin. And even through, Cécile stays on his side, Robin soon gets the feeling that he isn't good enough for Cécile. To proffer Cécile a better life, Robin begins to gamble, which comes soon to an addiction. Because he wants to keep this a secret from Cécile, he hurts her feelings so much, that she breaks up with him. When Cécile finds out the truth, Robin wants a second chance, but the breakup is final for Cécile. Later, the two continue on being friends.