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Pierre-André Boutang
Pierre-André Boutang (March 25, 1937, in Paris – August 20, 2008, in Porticcio, Corsica) was a French documentary filmmaker, producer and director. He was one of the leaders of the Franco-German channel Arte as well as of La Sept previously. Biography Son of Marie-Claire and Charles Maurras, maurrasianist and monarchist philosopher Pierre Boutang, and half-brother of Yann Moulier-Boutang, he was married to Martine Ferrand, editor at Éditions Grasset, with whom he had a daughter, Adrienne, teacher-researcher specializing in American cinema and half-sister of French radio journalist Émilie Aubry and novelist Gwenaëlle Aubry. Formation As a student at Sciences Po in 1958, he met Jean-Daniel Pollet and joined the ORTF as assistant director. Career In association with , director and film critic at Elle (magazine), Elle and at Le Masque et la plume, Boutang produced and arranged interviews with such notables of film and literature as Jean-Paul Sartre, George Steiner, Gilles Dele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
