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Pierre Benoît (novelist)
Pierre Benoit (16 July 1886 – 3 March 1962) was a French novelist, screenwriter and member of the Académie française. He is perhaps best known for his second novel '' L'Atlantide'' (1919) that has been filmed several times. Biography Pierre Benoit, born in Albi (southern France) was the son of a French soldier. Benoit spent his early years and military service in Northern Africa, before becoming a civil servant and librarian.Hugo Frey, "Afterword" to ''The Queen of Atlantis'', Bison Books, , (p.289-312) In 1914 he published his first book of poems. He then joined the French army and after the Battle of Charleroi was hospitalised and demobilised. His first novel, '' Koenigsmark'', was published in 1918; '' L'Atlantide'' was published the next year and was awarded the Grand Prize of the Académie française, from which he became a member in 1931. In 1923 Benoit was sent to Turkey as a journalist of ''Le Journal'' and later visited other nations. During this decade, many o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Benoit 1932
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation of Aramaic כיפא (''Kefa),'' the nickname Jesus gave to apostle Simon Bar-Jona, referred in English as Saint Peter. Pierre is also found as a surname. People with the given name * Abbé Pierre, Henri Marie Joseph Grouès (1912–2007), French Catholic priest who founded the Emmaus Movement * Monsieur Pierre, Pierre Jean Philippe Zurcher-Margolle (c. 1890–1963), French ballroom dancer and dance teacher * Pierre (footballer), Lucas Pierre Santos Oliveira (born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Pierre, Baron of Beauvau (c. 1380–1453) * Pierre, Duke of Penthièvre (1845–1919) * Pierre, marquis de Fayet (died 1737), French naval commander and Governor General of Saint-Domingue * Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (1895–1964), father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
Pierre Eugène Drieu La Rochelle (; 3 January 1893 – 15 March 1945) was a French writer of novels, short stories and political essays. He was born, lived and died in Paris. Drieu La Rochelle became a proponent of French fascism in the 1930s, and was a well-known collaborationist during the German occupation. Early life Drieu was born into a middle class family from Normandy, based in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. His father was an unsuccessful lawyer and businessman and womanizer who relied on his wife's dowry and ended up squandering it, being "responsible for a sharp decline in the family's social status" by the time of his son's adolescence. Although a brilliant student, Pierre failed his final exam at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. Wounded three times, his experience as a soldier during World War I had a deep influence on him and marked him for the rest of his life. In 1917, Drieu married Colette Jéramec, the sister of a Jewish friend. They divorced in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léonce Perret
Léonce Joseph Perret (14 March 1880 – 12 August 1935) was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer.The Museum of Modern Art(retrieved 7 June 2007) He also worked as a stage actor and director. Often described as avant-garde for his unorthodox directing methods, Léonce Perret introduced innovative camera, lighting and film scoring techniques to French cinema. Léonce Perret began his career as a relatively undistinguished stage actor. He was recruited to the film industry by the Gaumont Film Company. His numerous short films gained significant accolade in French cinematography. Until his emigration to the United States in 1917, he was a fixture of the Gaumont Film Company. On American soil, he produced several popular films, the most notable being ''Lest We Forget'' (''N'oublions jamais'') in 1918. After returning to France, he directed the successful '' Koenigsmark'' in 1923. His film '' Madame Sans-Gêne'' (1925), starring Gloria Swanson, was the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koenigsmark (1923 Film)
''Koenigsmark'' is a 1923 French silent drama film directed by Léonce Perret and starring Maurice Lehmann, Huguette Duflos and Jaque Catelain.Goble p.36 It is an adaptation of the 1918 novel '' Koenigsmark'' by Pierre Benoit. It was the first of several screen adaptations of the work. It is also known by the alternative title of ''The Secret Spring''. In 1926 it was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures. Cast * Maurice Lehmann as Philippe de Koenigsmark * Huguette Duflos as Grande-duchesse Aurore de Lautenbourg * Jaque Catelain as Professeur Raoul Vignerte * Georges Vaultier as Grand-duc Frédéric de Lautenbourg * André Liabel as Baron de Boose * Iván Petrovich as Lieutenant de Hagen * Julio de Romero as Prince Tumène * Paul Vermoyal as Cyrus Beck * Karl Heyl as Roi Stephen II * Jean Aymé as Monsieur de Marsais * C. Farnet as Ribeyre * Clara Tambour as Totoche * Diana Kotchaki as Comtesse de Platen * A. Debriège as Natacha * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Feyder
Jacques Feyder (; 21 July 1885 – 24 May 1948) was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the US, Britain and Germany. He was a director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema. He adopted French nationality in 1928. Career Born Jacques Léon Louis Frédérix in Ixelles, Belgium, he was educated at the École régimentaire in Nivelles, and was destined for a military career. At age twenty-five however he moved to Paris where he pursued an interest in acting, first on stage and then in film, adopting the name Jacques Feyder. He joined the Gaumont Film Company and in 1914 he became an assistant director with Gaston Ravel. He started directing films for Gaumont in 1916, but his career was interrupted by service with the Belgian army during 1917-1919. After the end of the war, he returned to filmmaking and quickly built a reputation as one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Atlantide (1921 Film)
''L'Atlantide'' is a 1921 French-Belgian silent film directed by Jacques Feyder, and the first of several adaptations of the best-selling novel '' L'Atlantide'' by Pierre Benoit. It was also released under various English titles at different times. Plot In 1911, two French officers, Capitaine Morhange and Lieutenant Saint-Avit, become lost in the Sahara desert and discover the legendary kingdom of Atlantis, ruled by its ageless queen Antinéa. They become the latest in a line of captives whom she has taken as lovers, and who are killed and embalmed in gold after she has tired of them. Morhange however, already grieving for a lost love and planning to take holy orders, is indifferent to Antinéa's advances and rejects her. Angered and humiliated, she exploits the jealousy of his friend Saint-Avit and incites him to kill Morhange. Appalled by what he has done, Saint-Avit is helped to escape by Antinéa's secretary Tanit-Zerga, and after nearly dying in the desert from thirst an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Dries
Jean Dries was the name used by the artist Jean Driesbach, who was born on October 19, 1905, in Bar-le-Duc in Meuse, France and died in Paris on February 26, 1973. He was a Lorrain painter by birth and was born the year Fauvism appeared at the Salon d'automne. He became a Parisian painter when he studied under Lucien Simon at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, through his adventures in the "zone", setting up several studios before finally settling in the Île Saint-Louis at 15 quai d'Anjou. He was also a Provençal painter since he spent time in Provence following in the steps of Cézanne and Van Gogh in the 1930s and set up his last studio in Aurel, Vaucluse. He can also be considered a painter from Normandy where he was drawn by his friends Jean Jardin and Edmond Duchesne and where he bought a house for his family in 1936. From 1953 to 1973 he was the curator of the Eugène Boudin Museum in Honfleur which still has some of his works on display. As Jean Dries believed that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gobi Desert (novel)
''The Gobi Desert'' (French: ''Le Désert de Gobi'') is a 1941 adventure novel by the French writer Pierre Benoit.Boisdeffre p.228 Plot Set in 1928, the plot revolves around two Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-ei ...n biologists who travel to the Gobi Desert in search of a rare animal, that they are planning to protect from a fascist politician who was overthrown, who plans on sending it to the biggest animal smuggling ring in European history. References Bibliography * Pierre de Boisdeffre. ''Une histoire vivante de la littérature d'aujourd'hui, 1939-1960''. Le Livre Contemporain, 1960. 1941 French novels French adventure novels Novels by Pierre Benoit Novels set in deserts Éditions Albin Michel books {{1940s-adventure-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Environs Of Aden
''The Environs of Aden'' (French: ''Les Environs d'Aden'') is a 1940 adventure novel by the French writer Pierre Benoit (novelist), Pierre Benoit.Engler p.155 Film adaptation In 1956 it was turned into a film ''It Happened in Aden'' starring Dany Robin and Jacques Dacqmine. References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Engler, Winfried. ''The French Novel, from Eighteen Hundred to the Present''. Ungar, 1969. 1940 novels Novels by Pierre Benoit French novels adapted into films Novels set in the Middle East Éditions Albin Michel books {{1940s-adventure-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Châtelaine Du Liban (novel)
''The Lady of Lebanon'' (French: ''La Châtelaine du Liban'') is a 1934 French thriller film directed by Jean Epstein, starring Andrée Spinelly and Jean Murat. The narrative is set in Lebanon and follows a web of espionage with clashes between the French and British secret services, with a beautiful young woman at the centre. The film is based on the 1924 novel ''The Lady of Lebanon'' by Pierre Benoit (novelist), Pierre Benoit. Filming took place between July and December 1933 in Lebanon, France, Egypt, Palestine and Syria. It premiered on 2 February 1934. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Lucien Aguettand and Claude Bouxin. Cast * Jean Murat as captain Domèvre * Andrée Spinelly as Athelstane, countess Orloff * Gaby Basset as Maroussia * Albert Decoeur as the general * Marguerite Templey as the general's wife * George Grossmith Jr. as colonel Hobson * Ernest Ferny as captain Walter * André Marnay as colonel Hennequin * Georges Prieur as colonel Maret * Georgé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciboure
Ciboure (; ,ZIBURU meaning 'end of bridge') is a in the in south-western France. It lies across the river [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
