Actress Scarlett Johansson is suing over a French Writer's use of her name in his novel. "The Avengers" star has filed a lawsuit against publisher JC Lattes for the unauthorized use of her name in the book.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, she is seeking compensation and damages from the "breach and fraudulent use of personal rights," as well as a ban on "future transfer of rights and adaptations of the book."

In the French novel, "La première chose qu'on regard" ("The First Thing We Look At") author, Grégoire Delacourt writes of a woman who shows up at a mechanic shop and is believed to be the actress.

However THR reported that sixty pages later you discover that the woman is a doppelganger of Scarlett Johansson and her real name is Jeanine Foucaprez.

The book was released in March and has been a best seller ever since.

According to Yahoo! Movies, Delacourt told the French paper Le Figaro that he was "stupefied" that Johansson took legal action.

He does not believe that the actress has read the novel and was expecting a different course of action from her.

He told the newspaper, "I was hoping that she might send me flowers because this book is, in a way, a declaration of love."

"She is an archetypal beauty of our times, very human with a touching fragility. She is a wonderful, iconic actress."

Yahoo! Movies reports that Delacourt's novel mentions other celebrities such as Ryan Gosling and Gene Hackman and that the book is intended to be part satire on celebrity culture.

"All these famous people live with us all the time. Celeb culture is imposed on us by the media, the press, the internet," the author said.

"So her complaint is based on exactly the phenomenon I am denouncing. It's a paradox. But I suppose it's all very American."

Delecourt even went on to say, "I also describe someone being hurt when their airbag fails to inflate."

"Am I going to be sued by airbag manufacturers?"

This is not the first time Johansson is has jumped to legal matters when her persona was harmed.

In the past she's sued when nude photos were stolen from her phone and in 2008 she accused Cosmopolitan Magazine UK of running fabricated quotes in a cover story interview.

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