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Joyeux Noel
Joyeux may refer to: People *André Joyeux (born 1871), French artist and teacher *Malik Joyeux (1980–2005), French Polynesian surfer *Maurice Joyeux (1910–1991), French writer and anarchist *Odette Joyeux (1914–2000), French actress, playwright and novelist Other uses *Joyeux, Ain, commune in eastern France *Joyeux Noël, 2005 French World War I film {{disambiguation, surname, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Joyeux
André Joyeux (1871-?) was a French artist, first teacher and director of the Gia Định art school (Trường Mỹ nghệ thực hành Gia Định) founded in 1913 in a suburb of Saigon, 12 years before Victor Tardieu founded the national EBAI in Hanoi.André-Pallois, Nadine. (1997). ''L'Indochine: un lieu d'échange culturel?: les peintres français.'' École française d'Extrême-Orient. Joyeux studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, then, around 1900, went to Saigon, possibly as an architect. In Saigon he started to paint and draw; his pictures were exhibited at the Colonial Exhibition in Marseille in 1906. He then published a first book of caricatures satirising the ''colons'' (his fellow colonial French), as ''Silhouettes Saigonnaises'' (22 plates, Saigon, 1909), then in 1912 a larger book of cartoons and text entitled ''La Vie large des colonies'' (Paris: Maurice Bauche, 1912), since translated into English as "The Colonial Good ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malik Joyeux
Malik Joyeux (31 March 1980 – 2 December 2005) was an accomplished all-around waterman and a professional Big Wave surfer. Known by many as the "petit prince", the Footedness, goofy-foot surfer often gained attention for charging the treacherous barrels at Teahupoo, Tahiti. He was credited in 2003 with the Billabong XXL Tube of the Year for riding one of the largest waves ever to be surfed in history. Joyeux was one of Tahiti's best known professional surfers and was featured on the cover of Surfer (magazine), Surfer Magazine's 2004 "Big Issue". Early life Joyeux was born in France and moved to French Polynesia at a young age, where his mother Hélène raised her three children on the tropical island of Moorea. He started surfing at the age of 8. For years his older brother Teiva, little sister Tylane and mother Hélène lived in a big hut near Haapiti on Moorea with no luxuries. It had no walls, just a wooden structure with a roof, surrounded by ferns and palm trees, and the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Joyeux
Maurice Joyeux (January 29, 1910 – December 9, 1991) was a French writer and anarchist. He first was a mechanic then a bookseller, he is a remarkable figure in the French Libertarianism Libertarianism (from french: libertaire, "libertarian"; from la, libertas, "freedom") is a political philosophy that upholds liberty as a core value. Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, and minimize the state's en ... movement. His father died as a social activist. At 1928, He joined the military services in Morocco and completed his service in Algeria. 1910 births 1991 deaths Anarcho-communists French anarchists French syndicalists Members of the French Anarchist Federation {{Anarchist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odette Joyeux
Odette Joyeux (5 December 1914 – 26 August 2000) was a French actress, playwright and novelist. Biography She was born in Paris, where she studied dance at the Paris Opera Ballet before taking the stage. Joyeux started her film career in 1931. Her first notable film was Marc Allégret's '' Entrée des artistes'' (1938). During the 1940s she established herself as one of France's most popular cinema actresses; however, she made few film appearances after the 1950s. Joyeux is the author of some plays and essays on dance as well as a book on the life of inventor ''Nicéphore Niépce''. She also wrote two novels aimed to inspire dance: ''L'Âge heureux'' (which was adapted to a television series) and ''Côté jardin''. Additionally, Joyeux wrote ''The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful'' (1956) (adapted to film). She married actor Pierre Brasseur from 1935 until their divorce in 1945, by whom she had one child, Claude Brasseur, who is the father of Alexandre Brasseur. In 1958 she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyeux, Ain
Joyeux () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Geography Joyeux lies less than from the wildlife park at Villars-les-Dombes and from Lyon in the natural region of the Dombes, a wide extent of middle and upper Pleistocene moraine left near the margin of the Alpine ice sheets. The commune includes some thirty lakes which together represent some 4 square kilometres of water. The land between them is of gravel, sand and clay. History The fief of Joyeux was mentioned in the twelfth century. In the fifteenth century, it was in the possession of the Villars family. On 13 February 2006, a wild duck was found dead on the fen. It was the first attested case of the presence of the bird flu virus H5N1 in France. Administration Population Sights Old farms typical of the region. The nineteenth century Château de Joyeux. See also *Communes of the Ain department *Dombes The Dombes (; Arpitan: Domba) is an area in eastern France, once an independent municipa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |