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Patachou
Henriette Ragon (10 June 1918 – 30 April 2015), better known as Patachou, was a French singer and actress. She was an Officier of the Légion d'honneur. Biography Early life Born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, Henriette Ragon began her working life as a typist, then a factory worker, a shoeseller and an antique dealer. Patachou In 1948, with her husband Jean Billon she took over a cabaret-restaurant in Montmartre, called Patachou. (Their son Pierre Billon had some success as a singer in the 1970s and wrote ''J'ai oublié de vivre'' for Johnny Hallyday.) She began to sing in the bistro, and journalists began to call her Patachou after the name of her cabaret (pâte-à-choux means cream puff dough). Georges Brassens sang there, and together they sang the duet "Maman, papa". She was the first to interpret other songs he composed such as "Le bricoleur", "La chasse aux papillons", etc. The evening she sang them for the first time, she suggested her audience stay to the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drôle De Félix
Drôle de Félix (literally meaning ''Comedy of Félix'' or ''Amazing Félix''; also known as ''(The) Adventures of Felix'') is a 2000 in film, 2000 France, French film, a road movie written and directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. It stars Sami Bouajila as the title character. Plot Félix, a young gay man of Arab descent, living in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Dieppe, is currently unemployed and HIV positive. While cleaning out the apartment of his recent deceased mother, he discovers that the father he never knew is living in Marseilles. Félix decides to hitchhike south to meet him, promising to see his lover Daniel there five days later. Carrying with him only a small bag, his HIV medication and a rainbow kite, Félix takes to the road. He witnesses a racist attack and is beaten up by one of the assailants. He is unable, however, to bring himself to report it to the police. Later, Félix encounters a series of people who form an alternative family for him: a young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobino
Bobino at 20 rue de la Gaîté, in the Montparnasse area of Paris ( 14th arrondissement), France, is a music hall theatre that has seen most of the biggest names of 20th century French music perform there. During its long history it was also known as Les Folies Bobino (1873), Studio Bobino (1991), Gaieté Bobino and Bobin’o (2007). History Started by Lisa Bennie, Bobino began as a dance hall in 1800, became a theatre in 1873, and was converted back to a music hall in 1926. Bobino was one of the most popular entertainment spots in France during the 1920s and 1930s. On April 8, 1975 Josephine Baker, the African American superstar of France who had appeared at Bobino beginning in the 1920s, gave her last performance there at the age of 68. After 183 years, Bobino closed its doors in 1983, but reopened in 1991. In 2007, Gerard Louvin and Stéphane Cherki turned Bobino into a cabaret named Bobin'o. Performers The entertainers who have performed at Bobino include: *Charl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brave Margot
"Brave Margot" is a 1953 song by Georges Brassens, about a young woman who breastfeeds a young kitten. It is one of his best known and most controversial songs. Lyrics The lyrics describe a young, well-meaning but naïve shepherdess, Margot, who finds a lost kitten and adopts it. When the little cat is hungry, she gives it her breast. This attracts a lot of male onlookers and brings all life in the village to a standstill. The women of the village get jealous and therefore take the kitten to put it down. Margot is sad, but gets a husband and never shows her breasts to anyone else again. Cover versions The song has been covered by Patachou in the 1953 film, '' Women of Paris''. Renaud covered it too on his 1996 album, '' Renaud chante Brassens''. In popular culture When Brassens died in 1981, French cartoonist Jean-Marc Reiser Jean-Marc Reiser (; 13 April 1941 – 5 November 1983) was a French comics creator. Biography A prolific cartoon artist from 1959 until his death, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pola X
''Pola X'' is a 1999 drama film directed by Leos Carax and starring Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva and Catherine Deneuve. The film is loosely based on the Herman Melville novel '' Pierre: or, The Ambiguities''. It revolves around a young novelist who is confronted by a woman who claims to be his lost sister, and the two begin a romantic relationship. The film title is an acronym of the French title of the novel, ''Pierre ou les ambiguïtés'', plus the Roman numeral "X" indicating the tenth draft version of the script that was used to make the film. The film was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. ''Pola X'' has been associated by some with the New French Extremity. Plot Pierre lives a carefree life with his widowed mother in a chateau in Normandy, enjoying rising fame as an author under a pseudonym and writing his second novel, and speeding on his father's old motorbike to sleep with his fiancée and childhood friend Lucie in her parents' chateau. In a bar he s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoléon (1955 Film)
''Napoléon'' is a 1955 French historical epic film directed by Sacha Guitry that depicts major events in the life of Napoleon. Napoleon is played by two actors, Daniel Gélin as a young man and Raymond Pellegrin in later life; the switch takes place during a scene at a barber. Director/actor Guitry played the role of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Talleyrand, controversial diplomat and first Prime Minister of France, narrating the story from a drawing room as if having just heard of Napoleon's death on the island of Saint Helena in 1821. Guitry had played Talleyrand before, in 1948's ''The Lame Devil (film), Le Diable boiteux''. Yves Montand appears as François Joseph Lefebvre, Marshal Lefebvre and Maria Schell as Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Marie-Louise of Austria. The film also has cameo appearances by a number of notable actors, particularly Erich von Stroheim as Ludwig van Beethoven, and Orson Welles as Napoleon's British jailor, Sir Hudson Lowe. The English ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Brassens
Georges Charles Brassens (; 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981) was a French singer-songwriter and poet. As an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and articulate, diverse lyrics. He is considered one of France's most accomplished postwar poets. He has also set to music poems by both well-known and relatively obscure poets, including Louis Aragon ('), Victor Hugo (''La Légende de la Nonne'', ''Gastibelza''), Paul Verlaine, Jean Richepin, François Villon (''La Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis''), and Antoine Pol (''Les Passantes''). During World War II, he was forced by the Germans to work in a labor camp at a BMW aircraft engine plant in Basdorf near Berlin in Germany (March 1943). Here Brassens met some of his future friends, such as Pierre Onténiente, whom he called ''Gibraltar'' because he was "steady as a rock." They would later become close friends. After being given ten days' si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women Of Paris
''Women of Paris'' (French: ''Femmes de Paris'') is a 1953 French comedy drama film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Michel Simon, Brigitte Auber and Henri Génès.Tsikounas p.68 Cast * Michel Simon as Professeur Charles Buisson * Brigitte Auber as Gisèle * Henri Génès as Lucien Mosca * Germaine Kerjean as Mme. Rédéri * Robert Lombard as Maurice * Philippe Mareuil as Pierre-Dominique, dit 'Pépé' * Georges Galley as Patrice * Suzanne Norbert as Mme. Buisson * Gaby Basset as Henriette * Micheline Dax as La snob * Anne Campion ( fr) as La trafiquante * Leila Lampi as Une danseuse * Janine Clairville * Nadine Tallier as Poupette * Annick Tanguy * Liane Morice * Nikitine * Liliane Montevecchi * Jacky Lemoine * Gisèle Fréry * Nicole Rimbaud * Janine Caire * Bernard La Jarrige as Inspecteur Corbin * Robert Lamoureux as Himself * Patachou as Herself * Ray Ventura as Himself * Jean-Marc Thibault * Roger Pierre * Les Quat'Jeudi * Jacques Grello as (voice) * Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Cancan
''French Cancan'' (also known as ''Only the French Can'') is a 1955 French-Italian musical film written and directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean Gabin and Francoise Arnoul. Where Renoir's previous film ''Le Carosse d’or'' had celebrated the 18th-century Italian commedia dell’arte, this work is a homage to the Parisian café-concert of the 19th century with its popular singers and dancers. Visually, the film evokes the paintings of Edgar Degas and the Impressionists, including his own father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It also marked his return to France and to French cinema after an exile that began in 1940. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Douy. Plot In Paris in the 1890s, Henri Danglard owns a night club where the star turn is a belly dance by his mistress Lola. Going after the show one night to an old-fashioned dance hall in Montmartre, he sees people doing the cancan together and is struck by the supp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Hanin
Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ("spear", "lance") (Hrōþigēraz). The name was introduced into England by the Normans. In Normandy, the Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate '. The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate '. ''Roger'' became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name ''Roger'' that is closer to the name's origin is ''Rodger''. Slang and other uses Roger is also a short version of the term "Jolly Roger", which refers to a black flag with a white skull and crossbones, formerly used by sea pirates since as early as 1723. From up to , Roger was slang for the word "penis". In ''Under Milk Wood'', Dylan Thomas writes "jolly, rodgered" suggesting both the sexual double entend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Ertaud
Jacques Ertaud (18 November 1924 – 18 November 1995) was a French film director and screenwriter. Along with Marcel Ichac, he co-directed the film '' Stars at Noon'', which entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival The 9th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June – 7 July 1959. The festival welcomed the cinematic movement known as the New Wave and screened the work of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and Françoi .... Selected filmography * '' Stars at Noon'' (1959) * '' The Link and the Chain'' (1963) * ''Sans famille'' (1981) References External links * 1924 births 1995 deaths French film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters Mountaineering film directors Writers from Paris 20th-century French male writers {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Rumba
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure 8'' (album) * ''L.A.'' (EP), by Teddy Thompson * ''L.A. (Light Album)'', a Beach Boys album * "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973 * The La's, an English rock band * L.A. Reid, a prominent music producer * Yung L.A., a rapper * Lady A, an American country music trio * "L.A." (Amy Macdonald song), 2007 * "La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River Other media * l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings * La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan) * ''Lá'', later known as Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper * La7, an Italian television channel * LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher * Liber Annuus, academic journal Business, organizations, and government agencies * L.A. Screenings, a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
