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Renée Simonot
Jeanne Renée Deneuve (10 September 1911 – 11 July 2021), known professionally as Renée-Jeanne Simonot, was a French actress and voice artist. She was married to actor Maurice Dorléac, the mother of actresses Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac and the grandmother of actor Christian Vadim and actress Chiara Mastroianni. Early life and career Born in Le Havre, France to Joseph-Sévère Deneuve and Antoinette-Jeanne Deneuve (née Schenardi), she debuted at the Odéon Theatre in 1918 at the age of seven. Primarily a stage actress, she remained there for 28 years, holding the post of "leading lady". Her daughter Catherine chose to use her maiden name, Deneuve, as her stage name. Simonot is Renée's stage name, which she took from an opera singer and family friend. Renée Simonot was one of the first French actresses to begin the dubbing of American films in France from the beginning of the talkies in 1929 through the 1930s. She was the voice of Olivia de Havilland (in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Havre
Le Havre (, ; nrf, Lé Hâvre ) is a port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the river Seine on the Channel southwest of the Pays de Caux, very close to the Prime Meridian. Le Havre is the most populous commune of Upper Normandy, although the total population of the greater Le Havre conurbation is smaller than that of Rouen. After Reims, it is also the second largest subprefecture in France. The name ''Le Havre'' means "the harbour" or "the port". Its inhabitants are known as ''Havrais'' or ''Havraises''. The city and port were founded by King Francis I in 1517. Economic development in the Early modern period was hampered by religious wars, conflicts with the English, epidemics, and storms. It was from the end of the 18th century that Le Havre started growing and the port took off first with the slave trade then other international trade. After the 1944 bombings the firm of Auguste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimé Clariond
Aimé Clariond (10 May 1894 – 31 December 1959) was a French stage and film actor. Clariond was born in Périgueux, Dordogne, France and died in Paris. Selected filmography * ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1931) - Ivan Karamazoff * '' Amourous Adventure'' (1932) * '' Take Care of Amelie'' (1932) * '' The Faceless Voice'' (1933) - Maître Clément * ''Mariage à responsabilité limitée'' (1934) * ''La belle de nuit'' (1934) - Claude Davène * ''Sans famille'' (1934) - James Milligan * '' Prince Jean'' (1934) - Le baron d'Arnheim * '' La Route impériale'' (1935) - Col. Stark * ''Crime and Punishment'' (1935) - Loujine * '' Lucrezia Borgia'' (1935) - Niccollo Machiavelli * ''L'île des veuves'' (1937) - Richard Trent * '' The Lie of Nina Petrovna'' (1937) - Baron Engern * ''La Marseillaise'' (1938) - Monsieur de Saint Laurent * '' Boys' School'' (1938) - M. Boisse - le directeur * '' The Little Thing'' (1938) - Monsieur Eyssette père * ''Katia'' (1938) - Le comte Schowaloff * ''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martial Piéchaud
Martial Piéchaud (6 September 1888 in Bordeaux – 24 August 1957 in Nay), was a 20th-century French writer, literary critic and playwright. He was a member of the "Lost Generation", and childhood friend of François Mauriac, André Lafon and Jean de La Ville de Mirmont. He won the Narcisse Michaud prize of the Académie française in 1951. Biography Martial Piéchaud was from an old family of Bordeaux bourgeoisie. His father, , was a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Bordeaux and eminent surgeon. His mother, Marie Cardez, was the daughter of Ferdinand Cardez, and descended from an old family of Bordeaux wine merchants, his family owning the Jourdan, Carsin, Villandraut and Deylet vineyards (Rions). He attended the Lycée Saint-Joseph-de-Tivoli in Bordeaux before he was graduated in law in Paris. He wrote his first novel, ''Le Retour dans la nuit'', first published in ''La Revue hebdomadaire'', then by Éditions Grasset in 1914. This first novel assured him fame. The w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Rey
Étienne Rey (1 March 1879 – 16 February 1965) was a French writer, dramatist and literary critic and one of the first best-seller writers of the Grasset publisher. His play ''La belle aventure'', co-written with Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet was premiered in 1913 at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, and played again numerous times. It has been adapted to the screen in 1917, 1932 and 1942 under the title ''The Beautiful Adventure''. Works * 1911: ''Sous la Lumière rouge'', drama in 3 acts * 1912: ''La renaissance de l'orgueil français'', Ed. Grasset * 1913: ''La belle aventure'': comedy in three acts (with Gaston Arman de Caillavet and Robert de Flers Robert Pellevé de La Motte-Ango, marquis de Flers (25 November 1872, Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados – 30 July 1927, Vittel) was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist.Pierre Barillet, ''Les Seigneurs du rire: Flers – Caillavet – ...), performed at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1927 and 1949 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert De Flers
Robert Pellevé de La Motte-Ango, marquis de Flers (25 November 1872, Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados – 30 July 1927, Vittel) was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist.Pierre Barillet, ''Les Seigneurs du rire: Flers – Caillavet – Croisset'', Paris, Arthème Fayard, 1999 Biography He entered the Lycée Condorcet in 1888 where he studied law with the initial ambition of entering diplomatic service. He met and befriended fellow student and writer Marcel Proust, and that relationship had a great influence upon him. Proust exposed Flers to art, literature, and music and his interests soon switched from law to writing, journalism, and literature. The two men enjoyed a lifelong friendship. After completing his studies, he toured throughout Asia in the mid-1890s. The event inspired his earliest writings: the novel ''La Courtisane Taïa et son singe vert'' (1896), the short story ''Ilsée, princesse de Tripoli'' (1896), and the travel narrative ''Vers l’Orient'' (1897). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Arman De Caillavet
Gaston Arman de Caillavet (13 March 1869 Р13 January 1915) was a French playwright. Early life Gaston Arman de Caillavet was born on 13 March 1869. He was the son of Albert Arman de Caillavet and L̩ontine Lippmann. His maternal grandfather, Auguste Lippmann, was a banker of Jewish descent. Career De Caillavet was a playwright. From 1901 to 1915, he collaborated with Robert de Flers on many works, including light and witty operettas or com̩dies de boulevard, many of which were great successes. Personal life In April 1893 he married Jeanne Pouquet. He was a close friend of Marcel Proust who found in him and his fianc̩e, Jeanne Pouquet, a model of the relationship between Robert de Saint-Loup and Gilberte in his famous novel '' In Search of Lost Time''. Gaston and Jeanne had only one daughter, Simone, who married (second wedding) Andr̩ Maurois, future biographer of Proust.Kolbert, Jack (1985)''The Worlds of Andr̩ Maurois'' p. 250. Susquehanna University Press. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firmin Gémier
Firmin Gémier (1869-1933) was a French actor and director. Internationally, he is most famous for originating the role of Père Ubu in Alfred Jarry’s play ''Ubu Roi''. He is known as the principle architect of the popular theatre movement in France. Early life Gémier was born in 1869 in Aubervilliers, France, with the given name Firmin Tonnerre.:514 He was raised an orphan.:88 After leaving school, he studied in a chemist's laboratory, but 'was discharged' for mimicking his employer. Career Gémier began his career as an actor in melodramas for working class actors, before going on to direct six different theaters, including the ''Théâtre Antoine'' and the ''Odéon''.:88 As actor He performed more than 300 roles as an actor, in styles that ranged from Naturalism to Symbolism to more populist work.:88-90 In 1892 he joined André Antoine's Théâtre Libre, where he first gained a national profile. In 1896 he played his most famous role, Père Ubu in the premiere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the greatest French writers of all time. His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (1831) and ''Les Misérables'' (1862). In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry collections, such as (''The Contemplations'') and (''The Legend of the Ages''). Hugo was at the forefront of the Romanticism, Romantic literary movement with his play ''Cromwell (play), Cromwell'' and drama ''Hernani (drama), Hernani''. Many of his works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the opera ''Rigoletto'' and the musicals ''Les Misérables (musical), Les Misérables'' and ''Notre-Dame de Paris (musical), Notre-Dame de Paris''. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social cau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hugo (writer)
Charles-Victor Hugo (4 November 1826 – 13 March 1871) was a French journalist, photographer, the second son of French novelist Victor Hugo and his wife Adèle Foucher. Life and work When Charles took up the fight against capital punishment in 1851 and found himself dismissed by the courts, he was jailed for 6 months for an article in L'Evénement. His father Victor Hugo gave a memorable speech in his defence on 10 June 1851. When Louis-Napoleon came into power in 1851, Charles-Victor joined his father in voluntary exile in the island of Jersey Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label=Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependencies, Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west F ..., together with August Vacquerie he photographed family and friends, intending to publish a volume titled ''Jersey et les îles de la Manche, with'' poetry and drawings by Victor-Marie, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Meurice
Paul Meurice (5 February 1818 - 11 December 1905) was a French novelist and playwright best known for his friendship with Victor Hugo. Biography Meurice was born and died in Paris. In 1836, aged eighteen, he was introduced to Hugo by his friend Auguste Vacquerie, and soon became a devoted follower. He had literary ambitions and embarked on a career as playwright. In 1848, Hugo made him the editor-in-chief of a journal he had just founded, called ''L'Événement''. (This resulted in Meurice's imprisonment in 1851, during Hugo's exile.) Their friendship was very deep: the poet was a witness at Meurice's marriage to Palmyre Granger, daughter of the painter Jean-Pierre Granger. During the twenty years of Hugo's exile, Meurice looked after the financial and literary interests of the proscribed writer. He meanwhile continued his own literary career, publishing novels, some in collaboration with Alexandre Dumas, for whom he would also ghost-write. He adapted ''The Hunchback of Notre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosette
Cosette () is a fictional character in the 1862 novel ''Les Misérables'' by Victor Hugo and in the many adaptations of the story for stage, film, and television. Her birth name, Euphrasie, is only mentioned briefly. As the orphaned child of an unmarried mother deserted by her father, Hugo never gives her a surname. In the course of the novel, she is mistakenly identified as ''Ursule'', ''Lark'', or ''Mademoiselle Lanoire''. She is the daughter of Fantine, a working woman who leaves her to be looked after by the Thénardiers, who exploit and victimise her. Rescued by Jean Valjean, who raises Cosette as if she were his own, she grows up in a convent school. She falls in love with Marius Pontmercy, a young lawyer. Valjean's struggle to protect her while disguising his past drives much of the plot until he recognizes "that this child had a right to know life before renouncing it"—and he must allow her romantic attachment to Marius to blossom. In the novel Early life Euphrasie, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Misérables
''Les Misérables'' ( , ) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title. However, several alternatives have been used, including ''The Miserables'', ''The Wretched'', ''The Miserable Ones'', ''The Poor Ones'', ''The Wretched Poor'', ''The Victims'', and ''The Dispossessed''. Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption. Examining the nature of law and grace, the novel elaborates upon the history of France, the architecture and urban design of Paris, politics, moral philosophy, antimonarchism, justice, religion, and the types and nature of romantic love, romantic and familial love. ''Les Misérables'' has been populariz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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