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Gustave Roud
Gustave Roud (; April 20, 1897 – November 10, 1976) was a French-speaking Swiss poet and photographer. Biography Roud was born in 1897 in Saint-Légier, in the canton of Vaud. In 1908, Roud, along with his parents and sister, moved to a farm in Carrouge inherited from his maternal grandfather. He would spend the rest of his life living there. In high school Roud studied classics and took classes with the renowned Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet and the Swiss-French writer Edmond Gilliard. Roud went on to study classics at the University of Lausanne, where he obtained his "licence ès lettres" (equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts). During this time, he translated the poems of Hölderlin, Novalis, and Rilke, while also actively participating in a number of literary journals. While living a solitary life in his family farm at Carrouge, Roud maintained numerous friendships with artists, poets, and other intellectuals such as Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, Ernest Ansermet, and René Aube ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French ( Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romandy
Romandy (french: Romandie or )Before World War I, the term French Switzerland (french: Suisse française) waalso used german: Romandie or , it, Romandia, rm, Romanda) is the French-speaking part of western Switzerland. In 2020, about 2 million people, or 22.8% of the Swiss population, lived in Romandy. The majority of the population lives in the western part of the country, especially the region along Lake Geneva, connecting Geneva, Vaud and the Lower Valais. French is the sole official language in four Swiss cantons: Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel, and Jura. Additionally, French and German have co-official status in three cantons: Fribourg/Freiburg, Valais/Wallis, and Berne/Bern. Name The adjective ' (feminine ') is a regional dialectal variant of ' (modern French ', i.e. "Roman"); in Old French used as a term for the Gallo-Romance vernaculars. Use of the adjective ' (with its unetymological final ') in reference to the Franco-Provençal dialects can be traced to the 15th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin. * January 7 – A cyclone destroys Darwin, Australia. * January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard, officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British Niger Coast Protectorate. * January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word ''computer'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. * January 23 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history, where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction. * January 31 – The Czechoslovak Trade Union Association is f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Mercanton (écrivain)
Jacques Mercanton (1909–1997) was a French cinematographer.Bellos p.108 Selected filmography * '' The Bread Peddler'' (1934) * '' Zouzou'' (1934) * ''Girls of Paris'' (1936) * ''Gibraltar'' (1938) * ''Ultimatum'' (1938) * '' Personal Column'' (1939) * '' Happy Go Lucky'' (1946) * ''Paris Vice Squad'' (1951) * ''Alone in Paris'' (1951) * '' Passion'' (1951) * ''Wild Fruit'' (1954) * ''Girls of the Night'' (1958) * ''Women's Prison'' (1958) * ''Prostitution Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in Sex work, sexual activity in exchange for payment. The definition of "sexual activity" varies, and is often defined as an activity requiring physical contact (e.g., sexual intercourse, n ...'' (1963) References Bibliography * David Bellos. ''Jacques Tati: His Life and Art''. Random House, 2001. External links * 1909 births 1997 deaths French cinematographers People from Neuilly-sur-Seine {{France-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Borgeaud
Georges Borgeaud (27 July 1914, in Lausanne – 6 December 1998, in Paris) was a Swiss writer and publisher. Education Georges Borgeaud studied at Collège d'Aubonne and Collège de Saint-Maurice, where he met Maurice Chappaz and Jean Cuttat. His novel ''The Préau'' (1952), partly autobiographical, also described this period of his life. He gave private lessons, and worked as a bookseller in Zurich and Fribourg. His stay at Glérolles Castle, where he met S. Corinna Bille, provides the framework for his second novel ''The Dishes of Bishops'' (1959). A collection of poetic prose, ''Italy'' (1959), followed, and a monograph on the painter Pierre Boncompain. Georges Borgeaud settled in Paris in 1946. He wrote slowly and carefully rewrote several times his manuscripts, and excelling in describing the world outside. His estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern. Awards He won awards: Critics Award for ''The Awning'' (1952), the International Journalism Award in Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Auberjonois
René Murat Auberjonois (; June 1, 1940 – December 8, 2019) was an American actor and director. He was best known for portraying Odo on '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1993–1999). He first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1970 for his portrayal of Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Hepburn in the André Previn-Alan Jay Lerner musical '' Coco''. He went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon's '' The Good Doctor'' (1973), Roger Miller's '' Big River'' (1985), and Cy Coleman's '' City of Angels'' (1989); he won a Drama Desk Award for ''Big River''. A screen actor with more than 200 credits, Auberjonois was most famous for portraying characters in the main casts of several long-running television series, including Clayton Endicott III on ''Benson'' (1979–1986), for which he was an Emmy Award nominee, and Paul Lewiston on '' Boston Legal'' (2004–2008). In films, Auberjonois portray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Velan
Yves Velan, (29 August 1925 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne – 6 May 2017) was a Swiss writer from Bassins. Biography He studied literature at Lausanne, where he joined the Society of Belles Lettres, and worked two years as a reader at the University of Florence. In 1950 he was one of the founders the leftist co-operative publishing house, Éditions Rencontre which published the literary magazine ''La revue Rencontre''. A communist, he was a member of the Swiss Party of Labour from the end of the war until 1957. He was forbidden to work and was excluded from teaching in the Canton of Vaud. He then moved to La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel where he taught literature at the gymnasium until his retirement in 1991. In the late sixties he temporarily left the Neuchâtel Jura for a long stay in the United States where he taught French literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His first novel ''Je'' was published in 1959 in Paris. He also published two novels, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Jakubec
Doris Jakubec-Vodoz (born 1939) is a francophone Swiss professor of Suisse romande literature. She served between 1981 and 2003 as director of the "Centre des littératures en Suisse romande" (CRLR / ''"Center for Swiss Francophone Literatures"'') at the University of Lausanne. She also has been or is a visiting professor at the Universities of Montréal, Stanford and Albuquerque, and has had international university lectureships at Tel Aviv and Peking Universities. She is associated with the transformation in status of Swiss-French literature from a localised concern to an international research topic. Beyond the academic sphere she has come to wider public attention with her contributions to literary criticism in the general media. Biography Provenance and early years Doris Vodoz was born into a large family. She spent her early childhood growing up with her parents and five siblings at Vevey, on the north shore at the eastern end of Lake Geneva. During her later childhood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Pourrat
The French writer and folklore collector Henri Pourrat was born in 1887 in Ambert, a town in the mountainous Auvergne region of central France. He died near Ambert in 1959. Biography Born to an Ambert shop-owner, Pourrat finished secondary school in 1904 and went to Paris the following year, to prepare for a career in agronomy at the national School of Forestry in Nancy. However, he contracted tuberculosis almost immediately and had to return home, to be long confined to bed in stillness and silence. When sufficiently recovered, he began walking daily, in every weather, the hills and villages around Ambert. In 1906-1909 Pourrat published locally, under various pseudonyms, extravagant stories in collaboration with his close friend Jean Angeli (1886-1915, pen name Jean L’Olagne) and others. He also wrote poetry and articles on the local dialect or on notable figures of the region. In 1911 he began collecting and publishing folktales and songs, partly under the guidance of the Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Béguin
Albert Béguin (17 July 1901 – 3 May 1957) was a Swiss academic and translator. He married the French writer Raymonde Vincent (1908–1985), winner of the Prix Femina in 1937. See also * Structuralism * New Criticism New Criticism was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century. It emphasized close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work of literature functioned as ... 1901 births 1957 deaths German–French translators People from the canton of Neuchâtel Swiss academics Swiss literary critics Swiss male writers Swiss translators Swiss writers in French 20th-century translators 20th-century male writers {{Switzerland-translator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard De Palézieux
Gérard (French: ) is a French masculine given name and surname of Germanic origin, variations of which exist in many Germanic and Romance languages. Like many other early Germanic names, it is dithematic, consisting of two meaningful constituents put together. In this case, those constituents are ''gari'' > ''ger-'' (meaning 'spear') and -''hard'' (meaning 'hard/strong/brave'). The English cognate of Gérard is Gerard. As a given name * Gérard Adanhoumé (born 1986), Beninese footballer * Gérard Araud (born 1953), Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations * Gérard Asselin (born 1950), Canadian politician * Gérard Audran (1640-1703), French engraver * Gérard Bailly (born 1940), French politician * Gérard Balanche (born 1968), Swiss ski jumper and Olympian * Gérard Banide (born 1936), French football coach * Gérard Bapt (born 1946), French politician * Gérard Barray (born 1931), French film and television actor * Gérard Barreaux (1948-2010), French acco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Chessex
Jacques Chessex ( Payerne, 1 March 1934 – Yverdon-les-Bains, 9 October 2009) was a Swiss author and painter. Biography Chessex was born in 1934 in Payerne. From 1951 to 1953, he studied at Collège Saint-Michel in Fribourg, before undertaking literature studies in Lausanne. In 1953, he co-founded the literary review ''Pays du Lac'' in Pully. In 1956, Chessex's father committed suicide, making a lasting impression on him. He completed his studies in 1960. In 1963, Chessex was awarded the Schiller Prize for ''La Tête ouverte''. The next year, he co-founded the literary review ''Écriture'' in Lausanne. From 1969, he held a position as a French literature professor in the Gymnase de la Cité in Lausanne. In 1972, he was awarded the Alpes-Jura prize. The next year, he obtained the Prix Goncourt for the novel ''L'Ogre''. It was translated by Martin Sokolinsky and published in 1975 under the title ''A Father's Love'' and reissued in 2012 under a new title ''The Tyrant''. In 1992 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
