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Roland Laudenbach
Roland Laudenbach (20 October 1921 – 9 January 1991) was a French writer, editor, journalist, literary critic and scenarist. He had right-wing political beliefs aligned with the Action Française. After World War II he supported keeping Algeria part of France and saw the 1962 recognition of Algerian independence as a betrayal of the people by Christian and Socialist leaders. He edited or contributed to various literary and political magazines, wrote several novels, and wrote scripts and screenplays for numerous films. Career Early years (1921–39) Roland Laudenbach was born on 20 October 1921 in Paris. His family was Protestant. His parents were Henri Laudenbach (8 July 1895 – 7 February 1960) and Lucette Mirman (1 March 1893 – 31 December 1987). His paternal grandfather, Léon Mirman, was a friend of Charles Maurras of the Action Française. The actor Pierre Fresnay was his uncle. World War II (1939–45) Laudenbach was influenced by the Action Française, and was ver ... [...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] |
Philippe Marçais
Philippe Marçais (16 March 1910 – 31 May 1984) was a French Arabist and politician. A director of the from 1938 to 1945, he was dean of the Faculté des Lettres d'Alger and député of French Algeria from 1958 to 1962. The Arabist William Marçais William Ambroise Marçais (6 November 1872, Rennes – 1 October 1956, Paris), was a French Orientalist, particularly noted as an expert on the Maghrebi Arabic dialects. Biography William Marçais was born in Rennes in 1872. After finishing the ... was his father. Works *1952''Le parler arabe de Djidjelli (Nord constantinois, Algérie)'' Paris, Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient, Publications de l'Institut d'Études Orientales d'Alger. *1954: ''Textes arabes de Djidjelli'', text, transcription and translation, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France. *1977: ''Esquisse grammaticale de l'arabe maghrébin'', Paris, Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient. *1977: ''Textes d'arabe maghrébin'', with MS.S Hamrouni, Paris, Librairie d'Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Thoeren
Robert Thoeren (1903–1957) was a German screenwriter and film actor. Thoeren was born in Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the First World War the German-speaking Thoeren emigrated to Germany where he became a theatre and film actor. Thoeren appeared in leading roles in several German-language films made by Paramount at the Joinville Studios in Paris. Thoeren went into exile following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, first in France and later in the United States. Thoeren had already ceased acting and begun writing screenplays for films and became a top writer in the United States working with leading directors including Joseph Losey and William Dieterle. Thoeren returned to Germany after the Second World War and continued his career as a screenwriter. His story idea for the 1935 French film ''Fanfare of Love'' and its 1951 German remake '' Fanfares of Love'' was used as the basis for Billy Wilder's '' Some Like It Hot'' released in 1959, two years after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Jeanson
Henri Jules Louis Jeanson (6 March 1900 in Paris – 6 November 1970 in Équemauville) was a French writer and journalist. He was a "satrap" in the "College of 'Pataphysics". As a journalist before World War II Jeanson was born on 6 March 1900 in Paris. His father was a teacher. Before becoming a journalist, he had several casual jobs, including being depicted as a soldier on a good-luck card for a postcard seller, belying his future pacifism. In 1917, he started work for ''La Bataille'', newspaper of the Confédération générale du travail. Noted for his strong writing, he was a journalist throughout the 1920s, with intervening stints as reporter, interviewer and film critic. He was distinguished by the potency of his style and a taste for polemic. Jeanson worked for several papers including the ''Journal du peuple'', ''Hommes du Jour'' and the ''Canard enchaîné'', where he defended complete pacifism. He resigned from the ''Canard enchaîné'' in 1937, in solidarity w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Delannoy
Jean Delannoy (12 January 1908 Р18 June 2008) was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director. Biography Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family was from Haute-Normandie in the north of France. He was a Protestant, a descendant of Huguenots, some of whom fled the country during the French Wars of Religion, and settled first in Wallonia. Afterwards, their name became De la Noye and then Delano family, Delano, who were on the second ship to immigrate to Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was a student in Paris when he began acting in silent films. He eventually landed a job with Paramount Studios Parisian facilities, working his way up to head film editor. In 1934 he directed his first film and went on to a long career, both writing and directing. In 1946, his film about a Protestant minister titled ''La symphonie pastorale'' was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1960, his film, ''Maigret tend un pi̬ge'' was nominated for a BA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Minute De Vérité
''The Moment of Truth'' (French: ''La Minute de vérité'', Italian: ''L'ora della verità '') is a 1952 French-Italian drama film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Michèle Morgan, Jean Gabin and Walter Chiari.Turk p.124 Delannoy co-wrote the screenplay with Henri Jeanson, Roland Laudenbach and Robert Thoeren. The music score is by Paul Misraki, Winfried Zillig and Georges Van Parys. It was shot at the Francoeur Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Serge Piménoff Serge Piménoff (1895–1960) was a Russian-born French art director. He designed the sets for the 1958 film ''Les Misérables''.Hayward p.232 Selected filmography * '' Nights of Princes'' (1930) * '' The Unknown Singer'' (1931) * '' Sailor's Son .... Synopsis It tells the story of a doctor, his wife and his patient, who was her former lover. Cast References Bibliography * Harriss, Joseph. ''Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was France''. McFarland, 2018. * Turk, Edward Baron . ''Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Lavorel
Henri-Albert-Sylvestre Lavorel (5 July 19147 January 1955) was born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie and was married to the English actress Madeleine Carroll from 1946 to 1949. Lavorel died in a car crash in Versailles (city), Versailles in 1955 aged 40. He worked as a producer, writer and director, most notably on ''The Voyage to America'' (1951) (writer, producer, director) and ''C'est arrivé à Paris'' (1953) (producer, director). Selected filmography * ''The Voyage to America'' (1951) * ''It Happened in Paris (1952 film), It Happened in Paris'' (1952) 1914 births 1955 deaths People from Annecy French film directors French male writers Road incident deaths in France 20th-century French male writers {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Voyage En Amérique
''The Voyage to America'' (French: ''Le Voyage en Amérique'') is a 1951 French comedy film directed by Henri Lavorel and starring Pierre Fresnay, Yvonne Printemps and Jean Brochard. The film contrasts the prosperity of France and the United States in the post-Second World War era It replaced the Laurel and Hardy film ''Atoll K'' at the Olympia cinema in Paris, and was much more successful.Aping p.258 Synopsis A couple living a peaceful life in rural France, learn that their daughter who married an American GI is due to give birth to a grandchild. They head to the United States to visit, to the delight of the wife. Cast * Pierre Fresnay as Gaston Fournier * Yvonne Printemps as Clotilde Fournier * Jean Brochard as the mayor * Claude Laydu as François Soalhat * Olivier Hussenot as Mr Soalhat, the gardener * Jane Morlet as Marie * Yvette Etievant as the post clerk * Lisette Lebon as Marguerite * Claire Gérard as Mrs Tassote * Maurice Jacquemont as the priest * Pierre D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Déon
Michel Déon (; 4 August 1919 – 28 December 2016) was a French novelist and literary columnist. He published over 50 works and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Interallié for his 1970 novel, ''Les Poneys sauvages'' (The Wild Ponies). Déon's 1973 novel ''Un taxi mauve'' received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. His novels have been translated into numerous languages. He is considered to have been one of the most innovative French writers of the 20th century. In 1978, Déon was elected to the Académie française. Early years Michel Déon was born in Paris on 4 August 1919, the only child of a civil servant and his wife. His father took his family along on the many foreign trips his work required, stimulating his son's interest in travel and cross-cultural relations that came to define his writings. Déon's father died in 1933 while on assignment in Monaco serving as advisor to Prince Louis. He and his mother returned to Paris, where Dà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Sérant
Paul Sérant is the pen name of Paul Salleron (19 March 1922 – 2 October 2002), a French journalist and writer. He was the brother of the Catholic theoretician Louis Salleron. He was a great lover of the French language, but was also a lover of regional diversity, and supported preservation of local cultures such as Breton, Occitan and Basque. His vision for Europe was one in which the nation-states would be dissolved, leaving a federation of ethnic groups. Life Paul Salleron was born on 10 March 1922 in Paris. He was one of nine children, the younger brother of the Catholic journalist and theorist Louis Salleron. He was educated by priests. During the occupation of France in World War II (1939–45) he was a member of the Resistance. He then joined the BBC foreign service. He adopted the pen name of Paul Sérant. The journal ''Accent grave (revue de l'Occident)'' was launched in 1963 and published fewer than a dozen issues. Its board of directors included Sérant, Pierre Andr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Section Of The Workers' International
The French Section of the Workers' International (french: Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, SFIO) was a political party in France that was founded in 1905 and succeeded in 1969 by the modern-day Socialist Party. The SFIO was founded during the 1905 Globe Congress in Paris as a merger between the French Socialist Party and the Socialist Party of France in order to create the French section of the Second International, designated as the party of the workers' movement. The SFIO was led by Jules Guesde, Jean Jaurès (who quickly became its most influential figure), Édouard Vaillant and Paul Lafargue (Karl Marx's son in law), and united the Marxist tendency represented by Guesde with the social-democratic tendency represented by Jaurès. The SFIO opposed itself to colonialism and to militarism, although the party abandoned its anti-militarist views and supported the national union government (french: link=no, Union nationale) facing Germany's declaration of war on F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algerian War
The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence,( ar, الثورة الجزائرية '; '' ber, Tagrawla Tadzayrit''; french: Guerre d'Algérie or ') and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November, was fought between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (french: Front de Libération Nationale – FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare and war crimes. The conflict also became a civil war between the different communities and within the communities. The war took place mainly on the territory of Algeria, with repercussions in metropolitan France. Effectively started by members of the National Liberation Front (FLN) on 1 November 1954, during the ("Red All Saints' Day"), the conflict led to serious political crises in France, causing the fall of the Fourth Republic (1946–58), to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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