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Jean-François Balmer
Jean-François Balmer (born 18 April 1946 in Valangin) is a Switzerland, Swiss actor. He has worked extensively in France, French Film, cinema, television and stage productions since the early 1970s. Theater Filmography Cinema Television Awards and nominations References External links * * 1946 births Living people People from Val-de-Ruz District Swiss male stage actors Swiss male film actors Swiss male television actors 20th-century Swiss male actors 21st-century Swiss male actors French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni Cours Florent alumni Long stubs with short prose {{Switzerland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valangin
Valangin () is a former Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz (district), Val-de-Ruz in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Neuchâtel (canton), Neuchâtel in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of Corcelles-Cormondrèche, Peseux, Switzerland, Peseux and Valangin merged into the municipality of Neuchâtel. History Valangin is first mentioned in 1241 as ''de Valengiz''. Geography Valangin had an area, , of . Of this area, or 39.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 49.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data . Retrieved 25 March 2010 Of the built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment. Diderot initially studied philosophy at a Society of Jesus, Jesuit college, then considered working in the church clergy before briefly studying law. When he decided to become a writer in 1734, his father disowned him. He lived a Bohemianism, bohemian existence for the next decade. In the 1740s he wrote many of his best-known works in both fiction and non-fiction, including the 1748 novel ''The Indiscreet Jewels, Les Bijoux indiscrets'' (The Indiscreet Jewels). In 1751 Diderot co-created the ''Encyclopédie'' with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. It was the first encyclopedia to include contributions from many named contributors and the first to describe the mechanical arts. Its secular tone, which included articles skepti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear Liar
''Dear Liar'', full title ''Dear Liar: A Comedy of Letters'' is a play by American actor, director, and playwright Jerome Kilty. It was first staged in 1957 and published in 1960. A television adaptation was made in 1964, directed by David Gardner for National Educational Television. Two film adaptations were later created, one in English by director Gordon Rigsby in 1981 and another in French as ''Cher menteur'' (meaning Dear liar) in 1982 by French director Alexandre Tarta. The play The play is based on the correspondence between famed playwright George Bernard Shaw and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. In the play written by Kilty, two actors duel with each other as they act on the letters exchanged between Shaw and Mrs. Campbell. In 1960, Dodd, Mead & Company published the play under the title ''Dear Liar: A Comedy of Letters adapted by Jerome Kilty from the Correspondence of Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell''. The play was staged first in Chicago in 1957. A production by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystification (Diderot)
''Mystification'' or ''l'Histoire des portraits'' is an unfinished work from 1768 by Denis Diderot. It was published in 1951. A second edition in 1954 by Pierre Daix, annotated by Yves Benot was illustrated with four sketches by Pablo Picasso, for Les Éditeurs français réunis. A film based on the work was directed by Sandrine Rinaldi in 2005. Plot The story is based on a true story in which Diderot was also involved. The Russian Ambassador to France, Prince Dmitri Alekseyevich Gallitzin, wanted to marry the 19-year-old Amalie von Schmettau, but had given his former mistress Mlle d'Ornet (in Diderot spelled "Mlle Dornet") several portraits, which he wanted to retrieve before his marriage. The scene takes place in the Paris studio of the Prussian painter Anna Dorothea Therbusch Anna Dorothea Therbusch (born Anna Dorothea Lisiewski, , 23 July 1721 – 9 November 1782) was a prominent Rococo painter born in the Kingdom of Prussia. About 200 of her works survive, and she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Cuomo
Franco Cuomo (22 April 1938, in Naples – 23 July 2007, in Rome) was an Italian journalist and writer.Paola Spinozzi (2016). Italian Translations and Editions of Thomas More's ''Libellus vere aureus''. ''Utopian Studies'' 27 (3): 505–520 Project Musebr>640832/ref> Best known for his historical novels set in the Middle Ages, he was short-listed twice for the Strega Award (the most prestigious literary prize in Italy), first with ''Gunther d'Amalfi, cavaliere templare''Rocco Capozzi (2013). "Revisiting History: Conspiracies and Fabrication of Texts in "Foucault's Pendulum" and "The Prague Cemetery"". ''Italica'' 90 (4): 620–649 (Gunter D'Amalfi, Knight Templar) in 1990 and then ''Il Codice Macbeth'' in 1997. According to Rocco Capozzi, ''Gunther d'Amalfi''s publication, shortly after ''Foucault's Pendulum'', "started a trend of neo-historical novels featuring symbols and secret codes linked to Templars, Rosicrucians, Cathars and Masons" in Italy. Cuomo gained a degree in l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Benmussa
Simone Benmussa (5 June 1932 – 4 June 2001) was a Tunisian-born French writer and theatre director. One of her best known plays was '' The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs''. Biography She was born into a Jewish family in Tunis and attended the private Catholic school Notre-Dame de Sion there. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and also attended Sciences Po. She went on to work at various theatres with Jean-Louis Barrault. From 1957 to 1989, she was editor-in-chief for '. When French president Charles De Gaulle removed Barrault from the directorship of the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe because of his support for the student revolt of 1968, Benmussa was put in charge of theatrical works at publisher Éditions Gallimard. Although she wrote her own play narratives, Benmussa was perhaps best known for her play '' The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs'', which was based on a short story by George Moore. Her play was translated into English and performed in London and New York City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathalie Sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute (; born Natalia Ilinichna Tcherniak (); – 19 October 1999) was a French writer and lawyer. She was nominated in 1969 for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Nobel Committee member Lars Gyllensten. Personal life Sarraute was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk (now Ivanovo), 300 km north-east of Moscow. She was the daughter of Pauline (née Chatounovsky), a writer, and Ilya Tcherniak, a chemist. She was of Jewish origin. Following the divorce of her parents, she spent her childhood shuttled between France and Russia. In 1909 she moved to Paris with her father. Sarraute studied law and literature at the prestigious Sorbonne, having a particular fondness for contemporary literature and the works of Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf, who greatly affected her conception of the novel, then later studied history at the University of Oxford and sociology in Berlin, before passing the French bar exam (1926–1941) and becoming a lawyer. In 1925, she married Raymond Sar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Misanthrope
''The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover'' (; ) is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière. It was first performed on 4 June 1666 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré), Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris by the King's Players. The play satirizes the hypocrisy, hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, but it also engages a more serious tone when pointing out the flaws that afflict all humans. The play differs from other farces of the time by employing Dynamic character#Types of characters, dynamic characters like Alceste and Célimène as opposed to the flat caricatures of traditional social satire. It also differs from most of Molière's other works by focusing more on character development and nuances than on plot progression. The play, though not a commercial success in its time, survives as Molière's best-known work today. Because both ''Tartuffe'' and ''Dom Juan, Don Juan'', two of Molière's previous plays, had already been Book ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Beaumarchais
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (; 24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a French playwright and diplomat during the Age of Enlightenment. Best known for his three #Figaro plays, Figaro plays, at various times in his life he was also a watchmaker, inventor, musician, spy, publisher, arms dealer, and revolutionary (both French and American). Born a Parisian watchmaker's son, Beaumarchais rose in French society and became influential in the court of Louis XV as an inventor and music teacher. He made a number of important business and social contacts, played various roles as a diplomat and spy, and had earned a considerable fortune before a series of costly court battles jeopardized his reputation. An early French supporter of American independence, Beaumarchais lobbied the French government on behalf of the American rebels during the American War of Independence. Beaumarchais oversaw covert aid from the French and Spanish governments to supply arms and financial assistance to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marriage Of Figaro (play)
''The Marriage of Figaro'' ( ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro")) is a comedy in five acts, written in 1778 by Pierre Beaumarchais. This play is the second in the Figaro trilogy, preceded by ''The Barber of Seville'' and followed by '' The Guilty Mother''. In the first play, ''The Barber'', the story begins with a simple love triangle in which a Spanish count has fallen in love with a girl called Rosine. He disguises himself to ensure that she will love him back for his character, not his wealth. But this is all foiled when Rosine's guardian, Doctor Bartholo, who wants her hand in marriage, confines her to the house. The Count runs into an ex-servant of his (now a barber), Figaro, and pressures him into setting up a meeting between the Count and Rosine. He succeeds and the lovers are married to end the first part of the trilogy. ''The Marriage'' was written as a sequel to ''The Barber''. In his preface to the play, Beaumarchais says that Louis François, Prince of Conti, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Adrien
Philippe Adrien (19 December 1939 – 15 September 2021) was a French stage director, actor and playwright. He was associated with the La Tempete company in Paris. Actor Adrien appeared in the 1959 war film, ''Green Harvest''. Playwright Adrien began to write plays in the late 1960s. In 1967, ''La Baye'' was staged by Antoine Bourseiller, featuring Jean-Pierre Léaud and Suzanne Flon. It was staged again in 1997 by Laurent Pelly. ''La Baye'' had elements of disorder which would be reflected in Adrien's later work. Adrien's play, ''Le Défi de Molière'' (1979) was dedicated to Moliere. Adrien has co-written two plays with Jean-Louis Bauer. The first, ''Bug!'' creates a dream-journey through memory, current scientific and artistic issues, to provide an overview of civilization. The second, ''La Grande Nouvelle'', is a contemporary variation on ''Le Malade imaginaire'', which plays on the ironies of the present-day desire for immortality. Director Adrien's directorial car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Garrel
Maurice Garrel (24 February 1923 – 4 June 2011) was a French film actor. Garrel was born in Saint-Servais, Isère. He appeared in over a hundred films and was nominated twice for a César Award for best supporting actor: in 1991 for ''La Discrète'' and in 2005 for ''Kings and Queen''. Garrel was the father of producer Thierry Garrel and director Philippe Garrel, and the grandfather of actor Louis Garrel and actress Esther Garrel. Garrel died in Paris, aged 88. Selected filmography * '' The Gorillas'' (1964) * ''To Commit a Murder ''To Commit a Murder'' (France: ''Peau d'espion'') is a 1967 French neo-noir spy film starring Louis Jourdan. It was one of a series of thrillers directed by Edouard Molinaro in the 1960s. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
