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Jacques Lanzmann
Jacques Lanzmann (4 May 1927 – 21 June 2006) was a French journalist, writer and lyricist. He is best known as a novelist and for his songwriting partnership with Jacques Dutronc. Early life Lanzmann spent the early part of his life in Auvergne. His parents, Paulette (Grobermann) and Armand Lanzmann, divorced shortly before World War II and, at the age of 12, he became a farmhand. Lanzmann was Jewish and, following the Battle of France, he, his mother and his siblings, pretended to be Moroccan Arabs to escape persecution by the Vichy regime. In 1943, Lanzmann and his elder brother Claude (later a noted documentary-maker) joined the Communist resistance. Jacques was taken captive by the Germans and was due to be executed by firing squad, but escaped. Lanzmann's father was one of the leading local figures in the rival ''Mouvements Unis de la Résistance'', but Jacques and Claude were not aware of this until February 1944. After the war, Lanzmann worked in Paris as builder and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bois-Colombes
Bois-Colombes () is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. In 2017, it had a population of 28,239. International companies such as Colgate-Palmolive, IBM and Aviva have their French headquarters in Bois-Colombes. History The commune of Bois-Colombes (literally "Dove Woods") was created on 13 March 1896 by detaching its territory from the commune of Colombes. Mairie de Bois-Colombes.JPG, Bois-Colombes Townhall Asnieres - Bois-Colombes - Rue des Bourguignons.jpg, The Rue des Bourguignons circa 1910 BoisColombesEglise.jpg, Notre-Dame de Bon Secours Population Transport Bois-Colombes is served by two stations on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line: Bois-Colombes and Les Vallées. Education The commune has: " Bois-Colombes. Retrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arbeit Macht Frei
() is a German phrase meaning "Work sets you free" or "Work makes one free". The slogan is known for appearing on the entrance of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Origin The expression comes from the title of an 1873 novel by German philologist Lorenz Diefenbach, , in which gamblers and fraudsters find the path to virtue through labour. The phrase was also used in French () by Auguste Forel, a Swiss entomologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist, in his ( en, Ants of Switzerland, link=no) (1920). In 1922, the of Vienna, an ethnic nationalist "protective" organization of Germans within Austria, printed membership stamps with the phrase . The phrase is also evocative of the medieval German principle of ("urban air makes you free"), according to which serfs were liberated after being a city resident for one year and one day. Use by the Nazis In 1933 the first communist prisoners were being rounded up for an indefinite period without charges. They were held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Est Cinq Heures, Paris S'éveille
"Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille" (English: "It is five o'clock, Paris awakens") is the sixth single by the French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc, released in 1968. It appears on his second self-titled album (also known as ''Il est cinq heures''). In 1991, it was voted best French-language single of all time in a poll of music critics. Composition The song originated from an idea put forward by Jacques Wolfsohn, an artistic director at Disques Vogue, during a meal at his home with songwriting partners Jacques Dutronc and Jacques Lanzmann. He suggested a song on the subject of Paris in the morning. The other two Jacques began writing the song at around 11 pm that evening, and completed it at daybreak. It takes inspiration from " Tableau de Paris à cinq heures du matin", an 1802 song by Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers. The modernized lyrics replace Désaugiers' sunrise tableau of bakeries, fruitstands and street cleaners with a less soothing scene of trucks, cars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J'aime Les Filles
"J'aime les filles (si vous êtes comme ça téléphonez moi)" is a 1967 single by French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc. It reached number 1 in the French singles chart for two weeks from 6 May 1967. Court case In 1977, Dutronc and co-writer Jacques Lanzmann sued an advertising agency for making use of an instrumental version of the song without permission. The agency successfully defended the claim, arguing that the extract they had used was identical in melody to an older song, differing only in rhythm. The case established a precedent in French law that applying a new rhythm to an existing tune does not create a new work for copyright purposes. Track listing Words by Jacques Lanzmann and music by Jacques Dutronc. Side A Side B Personnel *Jacques Dutronc : voice, guitar, percussion *Hadi Kalafate : bass, percussion *Alain Le Govic (alias Alain Chamfort Alain Chamfort (born Alain Joseph Yves Le Govic; 2 March 1949) is a French singer of Breton origin. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Play Boys
"Les play boys" is the second single by French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc, released in 1966. It features on his self-titled debut album. Composition "Les play boys" was recorded in October 1966, shortly after a performance at the Golf-Drouot nightclub in Paris. According to co-writer Jacques Lanzmann, the song's innuendo-laden lyrics reflected his experience as the editor of the men's magazine '' Lui'': "At that time, even a hint of hair sticking out from a bikini would have seen the magazine shut down". Release and promotion "Les play boys" was released as a four-track EP in France in November 1966. Dutronc performed "Les play boys" on the French television show ''Palmarès des chansons'', broadcast by Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française on 16 November 1966, accompanied by the Orchestre Raymond Lefèvre. He also toured to promote the single. In 1971, he sing the song in duet with Annie Cordy during a show who honored the actress / singer on France 2 n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Académie Charles Cros
The Académie Charles Cros (Charles Cros Academy) is an organization located in Chézy-sur-Marne, France, that acts as an intermediary between government cultural policy makers and professionals in music and the recording industry. The academy is composed of fifty members specializing in music criticism, sound recording, and culture. It was founded in 1947 by Roger Vincent with Armand Panigel, José Bruyr, Antoine Goléa, Franck Ténot, and Pierre Brive – critics and recording specialists - and led by musicologist Marc Pincherle. It was named in honor of Charles Cros (1842–1888), inventor and poet (friend of Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine) who was one of the pioneers of sound recording. The academy continues to stay abreast of advances in technology, from the development of 78 RPM gramophone records to CDs, DVDs, playable torrents and all other readable, transportable music formats available today. Awards Each year since 1948, the Academy has given out its grand prize, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Prix Du Disque For French Song
The Grand Prix du Disque for French Song is one of a number of prizes awarded by L'Académie Charles Cros as part of the yearly Grand Prix du Disque. The following is a partial list of winners (sometimes more than one per year): 1948 * Les Compagnons de la chanson for "La Marie" * Jacqueline François 1949 *Henri Salvador 1951 *Félix Leclerc for '' Moi, mes souliers'' * Francis Lemarque 1954 *Georges Brassens for ''Les amoureux des bancs publiques'' 1956 * François Deguelt 1959 * Serge Gainsbourg for '' Du chant à la une!'' 1963 *Jean Ferrat for '' Nuit et brouillard'' *Françoise Hardy for her debut studio album '' Tous les garçons et les filles'' 1964 *Nana Mouskouri for ''Mes plus belles chansons grecques'' (Grand Prix de Musicologie pour le Folklore) *Sheila * Claude François * Jacques Brel for the song "Amsterdam" 1965 * Barbara for ''Barbara chante Barbara'' *Serge Reggiani 1966 * Jacqueline Dulac for ''Lorsqu'on est heureux'' 1967 *Nana Mouskouri for ''Le c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Dutronc (1966 Album)
''Jacques Dutronc'' is the first studio album by the French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc, released in 1966. Since Dutronc's first seven albums are all self-titled, the album is commonly referred to by the title of any of its three tracks which were released as singles ("Et moi, et moi, et moi", "Les play boys" and " Les Cactus"). Reception The album went straight to number one in the French charts upon its release and sold over a million copies in total. The single "Les play boys" was number one in the French charts from 3 December 1966 until 13 January 1967. In recognition of the album's success, Dutronc was awarded a special Grand Prix du Disque by the Académie Charles Cros, in memoriam of one of its founders. The album is included in Philippe Manœuvre's 2010 book ''Rock français, de Johnny à BB Brunes, 123 albums essentiels'', which contains reviews of the 123 "most essential" French-language rock albums.Philippe Manœuvre, ''Philippe Manœuvre présente : Rock fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi
"Et moi, et moi, et moi" is the debut single by French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc, released in 1966. It is featured on his self-titled debut album. Composition The record came about as the result of rivalry between the two artistic directors at Disques Vogue, Christian Fechner and Jacques Wolfsohn. According to legend, Wolfsohn, who had previously promoted Françoise Hardy, used to amuse himself by taking pot-shots at Fechner's Revox tape-machine with a rifle from his office window. Wolfsohn wanted to better Fechner's success with the hippy-influenced singer-songwriter Antoine. He asked Jacques Dutronc, at that time his assistant and a songwriter at Vogue, and the novelist Jacques Lanzmann to work on songs for a rival act, a singer called Benjamin. Benjamin released an EP in 1966, featuring songs written with Dutronc and a Lanzmann-Dutronc composition, "Cheveux longs" (Long Hair). However, Wolfsohn was disappointed by Benjamin's recording of "Et moi, et moi, moi". A secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatnik
Beatniks were members of a social movement in the 1950s that subscribed to an anti-materialistic lifestyle. History In 1948, Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase "Beat Generation", generalizing from his social circle to characterize the underground, anticonformist youth gathering in New York City, New York at that time. The name came up in conversation with John Clellon Holmes, who published an early Beat Generation novel titled ''Go (Holmes novel), Go'' (1952), along with the manifesto ''This Is the Beat Generation'' in ''The New York Times Magazine''. In 1954, Nolan Miller (author), Nolan Miller published his third novel ''Why I Am So Beat'' (Putnam), detailing the weekend parties of four students. "Beat" came from underworld slang—the world of hustlers, drug addicts, and petty thieves, where Allen Ginsberg and Kerouac sought inspiration. "Beat" was slang for "beaten down" or downtrodden, but to Kerouac and Ginsberg, it also had a spiritual connotation as in "beatitude". Oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disques Vogue
Disques Vogue was a jazz record company founded in France by Léon Cabat and Charles Delaunay in 1947, the year after the American Vogue label ceased. They originally specialized in jazz, featuring American performers such as Sidney Bechet, Dizzy Gillespie, and Gigi Gryce (sessions reissued on CD under Clifford Brown's name), in addition to local musicians Django Reinhardt and Martial Solal. In the late 1950s Vogue expanded into pop music, recording artists such as Petula Clark. In the 1960s and early 1970s the label added Jacques Dutronc and Françoise Hardy. They licensed recordings by ABBA for release in Belgium and France and European distribution of Recordings of Monsieur Tranquille. Vogue Records, a British offshoot, was founded in 1951 and absorbed by English Decca (then separate from the American company) around 1956, but the rights to the name reverted to the French parent in 1962, whereupon Decca renamed its Vogue label Vocalion. A new Disques Vogue sister label was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Filipacchi
Daniel Filipacchi (born 12 January 1928) is the Chairman Emeritus of Hachette Filipacchi Médias and a French collector of surrealist art. Career Filipacchi wrote and worked as a photographer for ''Paris Match'' from its founding in 1949 by Jean Prouvost. While working at ''Paris Match'' and as a photographer for another of Prouvost's titles, ''Marie Claire''—Filipacchi would later claim never to have enjoyed taking photographs, despite earning early notoriety as a "well-mannered paparazzo"Dupuis, JérômeDaniel Filipacchi: "Je travaille mieux la nuit et réfléchis mieux sur mon bateau"(English: "I work better at night and think better on my boat"), ''l'Express'', 29 February 2012. Filipacchi is quoted as saying "je peux bien le dire aujourd'hui : je n'ai jamais aimé faire des photographies." ("I can just as well say it today: I never liked taking photographs.") Accessed 25 May 2013.—he promoted jazz concerts and ran a record label. In the early 1960s, at a time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
