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Pierre Frondaie
Pierre Frondaie (born Albert René Fraudet; 25 April 1884 – 25 September 1948) was a French poet, novelist, and playwright. Biography Pierre Frondaie – né Albert René Fraudet – was born in 1884 in Paris to an upper-middle-class family. He began writing as a teenager and soon devoted himself to the theme that would come to define his career as a man of letters, namely love and its vicissitudes. His success came early. The French stage legend Sarah Bernhardt fostered his talents as an actor and playwright, producing and acting in one of his plays during a triumphant American tour. In 1925, Frondaie published ''L'Homme à l'Hispano'' (''The Man in the Hispano-Suiza''), the novel that would go on to become his bestseller, translated in 15 languages. The book inspired a successful play, staged in Paris in 1928, and two film adaptations (the first by Julien Duvivier in 1926, the second by Jean Epstein in 1933). Frondaie soon caught the attention of Hollywood, then in its in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaucresson
Vaucresson () is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is in the Hauts-de-Seine department from the center of Paris. Vaucresson contains abundant parkland; 22 of its 308 hectares are classed as natural zones. Today Vaucresson is principally a wealthy residential community, and has the ninth-highest household income of any commune in France. Population The people who live in the commune are called ''Vaucressonais'' in French. Culture Vaucresson has a movie theatre called "Cinema Normandie". There is also a cultural centre, "La Montgolfiere", which offers many activities and cultural exhibits. The name was given as a reminder of the first hot air balloon which set off from the Chateau de Versailles the 19 September 1783 and landed in Vaucresson, carrying a duck, a rooster and a lamb. Transport Vaucresson is served by Vaucresson station on the Transilien Line L suburban rail line. Education Public schools: * Two preschools: Ecole maternelle des Grandes-Fermes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvie (actress)
Louise Pauline Mainguené, known as Sylvie (3 January 1883 – 5 January 1970), was a French actress. The daughter of a sailor and a teacher, Sylvie entered an acting conservatory where she won a class comedy award unanimously. She started her professional career in 1903 and she earned her first success with ''The Old Heidelberg''. She first appeared in French silent films. She was an actress known for ''Don Camillo'' (1952), ''The Shameless Old Lady'' (1965), and ''Le Corbeau'' (1943). She was born on 3 January 1883 in Paris and died on 5 January 1970 in Compiègne, France. She won the first National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1966 for her performance in ''The Shameless Old Lady''. Partial filmography * '' Germinal'' (1913) - Catherine * ''Le coupable'' (1917) - Louise Rameau * '' Roger la Honte'' (1922) - Henriette Laroque * ''Crime and Punishment'' (1935) - Catherine Ivanova * ''Life Dances On'' (1937) - La maîtresse de Thierry * ''The Lafarge Cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1928. Events *January **The Soviet magazine '' Oktyabr'' begins publishing Mikhail Sholokhov's novel ''And Quiet Flows the Don'' («Тихий Дон», ''Tikhiy Don'') in instalments. **Ford Madox Ford publishes ''Last Post'' in the U.K., as the last in his World War I tetralogy ''Parade's End'', which has been appearing since 1924. *January 16 – The English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's ashes are interred in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey, London. Pallbearers include Stanley Baldwin, J. M. Barrie, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Ramsay MacDonald and George Bernard Shaw. Meanwhile, Hardy's heart is interred where he wished to be buried, in the grave of his first wife, Emma, in the churchyard of his parish of birth, Stinsford ("Mellstock") in Dorset. Later in the year, his widow Florence publishes the first part of a biography, ''The Early Life of Thomas H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile-Paul Frères
Émile-Paul Frères was a French publishing house, whose origins date back to 1881. 'Frères' is French for 'Brothers'. The brand was created by two brothers, Albert and Robert Paul, the sons of the founder Émile Paul. It was active until 1955, before disappearing in 1982. It was the first publisher of Alain-Fournier's ''Le Grand Meaulnes ''Le Grand Meaulnes'' () is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the first month of World War I. The novel, published in 1913, a year before the author's death, is somewhat autobiographical – especially the name of t ...''. References Sources * Pascal Fouché, ''L’Édition française sous l’Occupation 1940-1944'', Bibliothèque de littérature française contemporaine de l'université Paris 7, 1987-1988 ; reissue Éditions de l’IMEC, 2 volumes, 2005 . * « Émile-Paul Frères », by Marie-Gabrielle Slama in P. Fouché ''et al.'' (direction) ''Dictionnaire encyclopédique du livre'', Paris, Le Cercle de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1926. Events *February 8 – Seán O'Casey's play ''The Plough and the Stars'' opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. At the February 11 performance there is a near-riot: one audience member strikes an actress. *February 12 – The Irish Free State Minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appoints a Committee on Evil Literature. * February 26 – The future English novelist Graham Greene is received into the Catholic Church. *April 1 – Hugo Gernsback launches his pioneering science fiction magazine ''Amazing Stories'' in the United States. * May 11 – C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien first meet in Oxford. *October 10 – Mikhail Bulgakov's novel ''The White Guard'' (Белая гвардия), partly serialized in ''Rossiya'' before the magazine's suppression earlier in the year, opens as a dramatic adaptation, ''The Days of the Turbins'', at the Moscow Art Theatre. It is enjoyed by Stalin. *October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1925. Events * February 21 – The first issue of ''The New Yorker'' magazine is published by Harold Ross. * February 28 – The first story under the name B. Traven (identified variously as actor Ret Marut or Otto Feige) is published, in ''Vorwärts'' (Berlin). * April – F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar, rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, after the April 10 publication of Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby'' and before Hemingway departs on a trip to Spain that he will fictionalize in ''The Sun Also Rises''. * May 14 – Virginia Woolf's novel ''Mrs Dalloway'' is published by the Hogarth Press in Bloomsbury, London. Woolf is beginning work on ''To the Lighthouse''. * May 20 – C. S. Lewis is elected a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he tutors in English language and literature until 1954. * Summer – Samuel Beckett plays in the first of two fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1911. Events *January – The journal ''Ay Qap'' begins monthly publication in Arabic script in Troitsk, to promote modern Kazakh literature and progressive thought. *February–March – Antisemitic riots break out in Paris over the staging of Henri Bernstein's ''Après moi'' by the Comédie-Française, instigated by the far-right ''Action Française'' led by writer Charles Maurras, but in conjunction with the far-left '' Guerre Sociale''. *March ** Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Paris plans a Futurist conference and publishes a manifesto, ''Le futurisme'', at Sansot. ** Publication in ''The Strand Magazine'' (London) of the P. G. Wodehouse short story "Absent Treatment" introducing the character Reggie Pepper, a prototype for Bertie Wooster. *March 29 – The 1911 New York State Capitol fire in Albany destroys 700,000 books and documents belonging to the New York State Library. *April – Hugo Gernsb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1909. Events *January – T. E. Hulme's poems "Autumn" and "A City Sunset" are included in the Poets' Club anthology ''For Christmas MDCCCCVIII'', as the first examples of Imagism. *January 15 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's drama ''La donna è mobile'' opens at the :it:Teatro Alfieri, Teatro Alfieri, Turin. *February 1 – The first issue appears of ''La Nouvelle Revue Française'', a literary magazine founded in Paris by André Gide, Jacques Copeau, Jean Schlumberger, Gaston Gallimard, and others. *February 20 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto first appears in the French newspaper ''Le Figaro''. *March 2 – Katherine Mansfield, while pregnant by another man, marries the singing teacher George Bowden, whom she barely knows. She leaves him the same evening to resume lesbian relations with Ida Baker. *April **The opening night of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's drama ''Le Roi bombance'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1907 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1907. Events *January 3 – The National Theatre opens in Sofia, Bulgaria. *January 26 – Many of the audience boo the opening performance of J. M. Synge's ''The Playboy of the Western World'' at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Disturbances continue for a week. *February 4 – The poet W. B. Yeats, at a public debate at the Abbey Theatre, denies trying to suppress audience distaste during a performance of ''The Playboy of the Western World''. *February 22 – Leonid Andreyev's symbolist drama ''The Life of Man'' («Жизнь человека», ''Zhizn cheloveka'') is premièred at the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre in Saint Petersburg, directed by Vsevolod Meyerkhold. On December 12 it is performed for the first time at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski and Leopold Sulerzhitsky. *March – The '' Diamond Sūtra'', a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated AD 868, is discovered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Bourdelle
Antoine Bourdelle (30 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important figure in the Art Deco movement and the transition from the Beaux-Arts style to modern sculpture. His studio became the Musée Bourdelle, an art museum dedicated to his work, located at 18, rue Antoine Bourdelle, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France. Early life and education Émile Antoine Bourdelle was born at Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne in France on 30 October 1861. His father was a wood craftsman and cabinet-maker. In 1874, at the age of thirteen, he left school to work in his father's workshop, and also began carving his first sculptures of wood. In 1876, with the assistance of writer Émile Pouvillon, he received a scholarship to attend the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse, though he remained fiercely independent and resisted the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Charnaux
Madeleine Charnaux by Bourdelle Madeleine Charnaux (18 January 1902 – 10 October 1943) was a French war correspondent, sculptor, designer and aviator. She was the first woman in the Roland Garros pilots’ club. Biography Madeleine Charnaux, born in Vichy on 18 January 1902. Her father and brothers were doctors. Initially Charnaux set out to become a sculptor and studied with Émile-Antoine Bourdelle. She married the writer Pierre Frondaie on 22 September 1922 but their marriage only lasted for five years. After her marriage, Charnaux fell in love with flying after a trip to southern Italy on board a seaplane in 1930. She went on to get her pilot's licence and won the Jacques Roques Cup with over 17,000 km air travel in Africa. She traveled extensively in Africa and in 1934 was a guest of the governor of Libya and met aviator Italo Balbo. Charnaux began flying demonstrations for Caudron-Renault. She was grounded for over a year until October 1936 due to an accident. Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basque Country (greater Region)
The Basque Country ( eu, Euskal Herria; es, País Vasco; french: Pays basque) is the name given to the home of the Basque people. Trask, R.L. ''The History of Basque'' Routledge: 1997 The Basque country is located in the western Pyrenees, straddling the border between France and Spain on the coast of the Bay of Biscay. ''Euskal Herria'' is the oldest documented Basque name for the area they inhabit, dating from the 16th century. It comprises the Autonomous Communities of the Basque Country and Navarre in Spain and the Northern Basque Country in France. The region is home to the Basque people ( eu, Euskaldunak), their language ( eu, Euskara), culture and traditions. The area is neither linguistically nor culturally homogeneous, and certain areas have a majority of people who do not consider themselves Basque, such as the south of Navarre. The concept is still highly controversial, and the Supreme Court of Navarre has ruled against scholarly books that include the Navarre c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
