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Nicolas D'Estienne D'Orves
Nicolas d’Estienne d’Orves (born 10 September 1974, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French journalist and writer. Biography Nicolas d’Estienne d’Orves is Résistant Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves's grand-nephew . A former student of hypokhâgne, after internships in cinema and opera, he studied at the Sorbonne. By an exceptional combination of circumstances, he became the beneficiary of the collaborationist writer Lucien Rebatet. At the age of 22, while writing a master's thesis at the Sorbonne, he discovered his ''Histoire de la musique'' and grew passionate about its author. On this occasion, he met Pierre Darrigrand, Rebatet's executor, who before dying of cancer asked him to become, in turn, the beneficiary of the writer. He has collaborated with ''Le Figaro littéraire'', ''Madame Figaro'', ''Le Figaro Magazine'' and ''Le Spectacle du Monde''. For four and a half years, Nicolas d'Estienne d'Orves hosted a column one Saturday noon per month on the ''Étonnez-moi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas D'Estienne D'Orves Par Claude Truong-Ngoc 2012
Nicolas or Nicolás may refer to: People Given name * Nicolas (given name) Mononym * Nicolas (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer * Nicolas (footballer, born 2000), Brazilian footballer Surname Nicolas * Dafydd Nicolas (c.1705–1774), Welsh poet * Jean Nicolas (1913–1978), French international football player * Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1799–1848), English antiquary * Paul Nicolas (1899–1959), French international football player * Robert Nicolas (1595–1667), English politician Nicolás * Adolfo Nicolás (1936–2020), Superior General of the Society of Jesus * Eduardo Nicolás (born 1972), Spanish former professional tennis player Other uses * Nicolas (wine retailer), a French chain of wine retailers * ''Le Petit Nicolas'', a series of children's books by René Goscinny See also * San Nicolás (other) * Nicholas (other) * Nicola (other) * Nikola, a given name {{Interwiki extra, qid=Q7029481 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas D'Orves
Nicolas or Nicolás may refer to: People Given name * Nicolas (given name) Mononym * Nicolas (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer * Nicolas (footballer, born 2000), Brazilian footballer Surname Nicolas * Dafydd Nicolas (c.1705–1774), Welsh poet * Jean Nicolas (1913–1978), French international football player * Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1799–1848), English antiquary * Paul Nicolas (1899–1959), French international football player * Robert Nicolas (1595–1667), English politician Nicolás * Adolfo Nicolás (1936–2020), Superior General of the Society of Jesus * Eduardo Nicolás (born 1972), Spanish former professional tennis player Other uses * Nicolas (wine retailer), a French chain of wine retailers * ''Le Petit Nicolas'', a series of children's books by René Goscinny See also * San Nicolás (other) * Nicholas (other) * Nicola (other) * Nikola Nikola () is a given name which, like Nicholas, is a version of the Greek ''Nikolaos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NiL Éditions
NiL Éditions is a French publishing house founded in 1993. The name of this company comes from the contraction of the name of its founder, Nicole Lattès Nicole Lattès ( née Cousin; 20 February 1938 – 31 January 2023) was a French editor. She was known for founding in 1993. Lattès was born on 20 February 1938. She served as director of before serving as director of from 1981 to 1991. She .... It is part of the groupe Robert Laffont. The house publishes both political and societal essays as well as French and foreign literature. External links Official websiteÉditeur : NiL éditionson Librairie Eyrolles.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Nil éditions Book publishing companies of France French brands Companies established in 1993 Editis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actes Sud
Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen, had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members. History ACTeS was situated in Paradou, a village in the Vallée des Baux. Here, founder Hubert Nyssen, his wife Christine Le Bœuf, (which was the granddaughter of Belgian banker and patron Henry Le Bœuf), his sister Françoise Nyssen, Bertrand Py and Jean-Paul Capitani met and founded Actes Sud. In 1983 Actes Sud moved to Arles. The publishing house was incorporated on May 2, 1987. The ''Actes Sud'' was a publication of the "Atelier de cartographie thématique et statistique" (ACTeS). Authors A selection of authors Actes Sud published: Prizes * 2004: the book '' The Scortas' Sun'' (''Le Soleil des Scorta'') by Laurent Gaudé, was the first book published by Actes Sud, receiving a Prix Goncourt (Prix Goncourt/Roman). The boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Ferré
Christophe may refer to: People * Christophe (given name), list of people with this name * Christophe (singer) (1945–2020), French singer * Cristophe (hairstylist) (born 1958), Belgian hairstylist * Georges Colomb (1856–1945), French comic strip artist and botanist who published under the pseudonym Christophe People with the surname Christophe * Didier Christophe (born 1956), retired professional French footballer, managing Pau FC * Henri Christophe (1767–1820), Haitian Revolution leader Other uses * Christophe (Amsterdam), restaurant in Amsterdam, The Netherlands * 1698 Christophe Events January–March * January 1 – The Abenaki tribe and Province of Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts colonists sign a treaty, ending the conflict in New England. * January 4 – The Palace of Whitehall in London, Kingdom of England ..., asteroid {{Disambiguation, human name, surname Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Foenkinos
David Foenkinos, born 28 October 1974 in Paris, is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director who studied both literature and music in Paris. His novel ''La délicatesse'' is a bestseller in France. A film based on the book was released in December 2011, with Audrey Tautou as the main character. His novels have appeared in over forty languages,Frank Quilitzsch, Lesung aus ‘Zum Glück Pauline’ in Anwesenheit des Autors', Thüringische Landeszeitung, 13 September 2013. Accessed 15 July 2023. and in 2014 he was awarded the Prix Renaudot for his novel ''Charlotte''. Biography Early years Growing up in a home with few books and often absent parents, David Foenkinos read and wrote little during his childhood. At 16, he required emergency surgery as a result of a rare pleural infection and spent several months recuperating in hospital, where he began to devour books, learning to paint and play the guitar. From this experience, he says, he kept a drive for life, a fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes Deambrosis
Mercedes Deambrosis in 2016. Mercedes Deambrosis (born 1 October 1955 in Madrid) is a Spanish writer who writes in French; she arrived in France at the age of 12. Many of her novels are set in Spain. Works * 2001: ''Un après-midi avec Rock Hudson'' () * 2002: ''Suite et Fin au Grand Condé'' (Buchet/Chastel) * 2004: ''La Promenade des délices'' (Buchet/Chastel) * 2005: ''Milagrosa'' (Buchet-/hastel) * 2006: ''La Plieuse de parachutes'' (Buchet/Chastel) * 2008: ''Candelaria ne viendra pas'' () * 2009: ''Juste pour le Plaisir'' (Buchet/Chastel) * 2009: ''Rien de bien grave'' (Éditions du Chemin de fer) * 2010: ''De naissance'' (Editions du Moteur) (reprint in 2011 in ''Six façons de le dire'', collective work (with Nicolas d'Estienne d'Orves, Sophie Adriansen, Yasmina Khadra, David Foenkinos, ), Editions du Moteur) * 2013: ''Le Dernier des treize'' (Éditions Labranche) * 2014: ''L'Étrange Apparition de Tecla Osorio'' (Éditions des Busclats) Externa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Adriansen
Sophie Adriansen (1982, Orléans) is a French writer, a member of the Société des gens de lettres and of the "Charte des auteurs et des illustrateurs jeunesse". sur le site de la Charte des auteurs et illustrateurs jeunesse Works Novels *2016: ''Le Syndrome de la vitre étoilée'', Paris, , () *2013: *2012: *2012:Nonfiction *2016: , with *2014: *2013: , with Sandra Dal-Maso *2013: *2012: , with Jean-Paul Rouet *2010: , with Rodolphe MaciaYouth literature *2016: ''Les Grandes jambes'', Slalom, 128 p. () *2015: ''Max et les poissons'', Paris, , 96 p. () *2015: ''Drôles d'époques !'', Nathan, hors série series "L’Énigme des vacances" n°42, 192 p. () *2015: ''Musiques diaboliques (Scooby-Doo)'', Nathan, serie ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasmina Khadra
Mohammed Moulessehoul ( ar, Ù…Øمد مولسهول; born January 10, 1955), better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra ( ar, ياسمينة خضراء), is an Algerian author living in France, who writes in French. One of the most famous Algerian novelists in the world has written almost 40 novels, and has published in more than 50 countries. Khadra has often explored Algerian and other Arab countries' civil wars, depicting Muslim conflicts and reality, the attraction of radical Islamism to those alienated by the incompetence and hypocrisy of politicians, and conflicts between East and West. In his several writings on Algerian war, he has exposed the regime and the fundamentalist opposition as the joint guilty parties in the country's tragedy. Biography Early life, and short stories Moulessehoul was born in 1955 in Kénadsa, in the Algerian Sahara. His mother, of nomadic origins, was her tribe's "chief storyteller". His father, initially a nurse, joined the Algerian National L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JC Lattès
JC Lattès is a French publishing house. A division of Hachette Livre since 1981, JC Lattès' catalogue includes the works of Dan Brown, as well as ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' by E. L. James. Founder Jean-Claude Lattès died on 17 January 2018. Background JC Lattès was founded in 1968 as Edition Speciale by Jean-Claude Lattès and Jacques Lanzmann. Lattès took it over in 1972, renamed it Editions Jean-Claude Lattès, and ran it until 1981. JC Lattès currently has a catalog of more than 1000 titles. Its major successes include: *Le Sac de billes (A Bag of Marbles) by Joseph Joffo *Le Vent du soir (The Wind in the Evening) by Jean d'Ormesson *Le Nabab (The Nabob) by Irene Frain *Leon l'Africain (Leo Africanus) by Amin Maalouf *Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James *The Red Scarves *The Officers *Geisha Over the years, JC Lattès has published general-interest books by French and foreign authors, including both fiction and non-fiction. Its authors have included Scott Turow, De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éditions Du Rocher
The Éditions du Rocher is a publishing house based in Monaco Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig .... It publishes works of literature as well as books about current affairs and well-being. It was founded by Charles Orengo in 1943. It was sold to Éditions Privat in 2005, Éditions Desclée de Brouwer in 2009, and Éditions Artège in 2014. Further reading * References Publishing companies of Monaco Publishing companies established in 1943 1943 establishments in Monaco {{Monaco-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groupe Flammarion
Groupe Flammarion () is a French publishing group, comprising many units, including its namesake, founded in 1876 by Ernest Flammarion, as well as units in distribution, sales, printing and bookshops (La Hune and Flammarion Center). Flammarion became part of the Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup in 2000. Éditions Gallimard acquired Flammarion from RCS MediaGroup in 2012. Subsidiaries include Casterman. Its headquarters in Paris are in the building that was the former Café Voltaire (named in honour of the writer and philosopher Voltaire), located on the Place de l'Odeon in the current 6th arrondissement of Paris. Flammarion is a subsidiary of Groupe Madrigall, the third largest French publishing group. History Ernest Flammarion successfully launched his family publishing venture in 1875 with the ''Treaty of Popular Astronomy'' of his brother, the astronomer Camille Flammarion. The firm published Émile Zola, Maupassant, and Jules Renard, as well as Hector Malot, Cole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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