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Alain Decaux
Alain Decaux (23 July 1925 − 27 March 2016) was a French historian. He was elected to the Académie française on 15 February 1979. In 2005, he was, with others authors as Frédéric Beigbeder, Mohamed Kacimi, Richard Millet and Jean-Pierre Thiollet, among the Beirut Book Fair's main guests in the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center, commonly (BIEL).''Improvisation ''so'' piano'', Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Neva Ed., 2017, p. 277. Bibliography * 1947 ' (Librairie académique Perrin) * 1949 ' (Librairie académique Perrin) * 1951 ' (in collaboration with André Castelot, J.-C. Simard, and J.-F. Chiappe) * 1952 ' (Librairie académique Perrin) * 1952 ' (Librairie académique Perrin) * 1953 ' (Librairie académique Perrin) * 1954 ' (Librairie académique Perrin) * 1954 ' (Librairie académique Perrin) * 1956-1957 ' (in collaboration with Stellio Lorenzi and André Castelot) * 1957 ' (Librairie académique Perrin) * 1957-1966 ' (in collaboration with St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department, and the main city of the Métropole Européenne de Lille, European Metropolis of Lille. The city of Lille proper had a population of 234,475 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its French suburbs and exurbs the Lille metropolitan area (French part only), which extends over , had a population of 1,510,079 that same year (Jan. 2019 census), the fourth most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. The city of Lille and 94 suburban French municipalities have formed since 2015 the Métropole Européenne de Lille, European Metropolis of Lille, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Jullian
Marcel Jullian (31 January 1922—28 June 2004) was a French author, screenwriter for French film and television, and occasional director. He was one of the founders of the TV channel Antenne 2, and its first president from January 1975 to December 1977. Selected books * ''Heaven Knight: Charles Nungesser'' (1953) * ''HMS Fidelity, Mystery Ship'' (1956) * ''Air People'' (1959) * ''Jean Maridor , Hunter V1'' (1959) * ''Histoire de la France et des Français au jour le jour'' (8 volumes, with Alain Decaux, André Castelot and Jacques Levron) (1976-1977) * ''Count Henri of Paris: Memories of Exile and Struggle'' (1979) * ''La Télévision libre'' (1981) * ''Histoire de France des commerçants'' (with C. Meyer and Robert Laffont) (1983) * ''Franchise postale'' (with J Chancel) (1983) * ''I am François Villon'' (1987) * ''Introduction to the History of the Kings of France'' (1989) * ''The Time of Joan of Arc: 1408-1447'' (with Alain Decaux, André Castelot, Jacques Levron and Robe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Officiers Of The Légion D'honneur
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Members Of The Académie Française
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Writers From Lille
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as other reports and news articles that may be of interest to the general public. Writers' texts are published across a wide range of media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well, often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a society. The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music, such as songwriter or a screenwriter, but also a stand-alone "writer" typically refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition. Writers can produce material across a number of genres, fictional or non-fictional. Other writers use multiple media such as graphics or illustration to enhance the communication of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Deaths
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1925 Births
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Les Misérables (1982 Film)
''Les Misérables'' is a 1982 French drama film directed by Robert Hossein. It is one of the numerous screen adaptations of the 1862 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. It was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize. Plot summary Cast * Lino Ventura as Jean Valjean * Michel Bouquet as Inspecteur Javert * Évelyne Bouix as Fantine * Christiane Jean as Cosette ** Valentine Bordelet as Cosette (child) * Jean Carmet as Thénardier * Françoise Seigner as La Thénardier * Frank David as Marius * Candice Patou as Éponine ** Agathe Ladner as Éponine (child) * Emmanuel Curtil as Gavroche * Hervé Furic as Enjolras (as Hervé Fulric) * Louis Seigner as Monseigneur Myriel * Fernand Ledoux as Gillenormand * Paul Préboist as Fauchelevent * Corinne Dacla as Azelma ** Catherine Di Rigo as Azelma (child) (as Kathleen Di Rigo) * Robin Renucci as Courfeyrac * Christian Benedetti as Combeferre (as Christian Bénédetti) * Tony Joudrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein (30 December 1927 – 31 December 2020) was a French film actor, director, and writer. He directed the 1982 adaptation of ''Les Misérables'' and appeared in ''Vice and Virtue'', '' Le Casse'', ''Les Uns et les Autres'' and ''Venus Beauty Institute''. His other roles include Michèle Mercier's husband in the '' Angélique'' series, a gunfighter in the Spaghetti Western ''Cemetery Without Crosses'' (which he also directed and co-wrote), and a Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist in ''Forbidden Priests''. Cinematic career Hossein started directing films in 1955 with ''Les Salauds vont en enfer'', from a story by Frédéric Dard whose novels and plays went on to furnish Hossein with much of his later film material. Right from the start Hossein established his characteristic trademarks: using a seemingly straightforward suspense plot and subverting its conventions (sometimes to the extent of a complete disregard of the tradition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Castelot
André Castelot, born André Storms (23 January 1911, Antwerp – 18 July 2004, Neuilly-sur-Seine), was a French writer and scriptwriter born in Belgium. He was the son of the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas and Gabrielle Storms-Castelot (née Gabrielle Alice Castelot), and the brother of the film actor Jacques Castelot. He wrote more than one hundred books, mostly biographies of famous people. Books * ''Napoleon'' * ''Queen of France, A Biography of Marie Antoinette'' * ''Josephine'' * ''King Louis XVI'' * ''Paris: the Turbulent City 1783–1871'' * '' King of Rome: A Biography of Napoleon's Tragic Son'' * '' Fouché'' Adaptations * ''Napoleon II, the Eagle ''Napoleon II, the Eagle'' (French: ''Napoléon II, l'Aiglon'', in English ''Napoleon II, the eaglet (or young eagle)'') is a 1961 French historical drama film directed by Claude Boissol and starring Bernard Verley, Jean Marais and Danièle ...'' (1961, film) French male screenwriters 20th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
