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Jean-José Frappa
Jean-José Frappa (3 April 1882 – 1939) was a French playwright and screenwriter. Several of his works were made into films. Henry Dupuy-Mazuel, a writing partner of Frappa, owned the news magazine ''Le Monde Illustré''. Like many French art critics, Frappa disdained the influx of foreign art into French salons. He advocated for the closure of salons to foreigners in 1912, writing, "This ever-growing invasion of métèques, most of them without talent, who come, no longer as in the past for the clear genius of our race, but to impose on us the mists or extravagances of theirs, is a real national peril..." Frappa wrote the screenplay for the 1929 film ''The Marvelous Life of Joan of Arc'', directed by Marco de Gastyne. He was of the opinion that non-Catholic foreigners wouldn't be able to present Jeanne d'Arc in "the true French tradition". Painter (1854–1904) was his father. Writings *''Le mariage in extremis'' (''Marriage in extremis'') *"Un mariage in extermis" (190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NADAR - Jean-José Frappa (cropped)
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (; 5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar () or Félix Nadar'','' was a French people, French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloon (aircraft), balloonist, and proponent of History of aviation#Heavier than air, heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs. His son, Paul Nadar, continued the studio after his death. Life Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (also known as Nadar) was born in early April 1820 in Paris, though some sources state he was born in Lyon. His father, Victor Tournachon, was a printer and bookseller. Nadar began to study medicine but quit for economic reasons after his father's death. Nadar started working as a caricaturist and novelist for various newspapers. He fell in with the Parisian bohemian group of Gérard de Nerval, Charles Baudelaire, and Théodore d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
