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Ă©ditions France-Empire
France-Empire is an independent French publishing house, created in 1945 by advocate and politician . History In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, Éditions France-Empire began publishing works about the war years 1939-1945. Following that were publishings of the period of decolonization. The publishing house was created on the funds of the Sève et Morat. The company has belonged to the group Desquenne et Giral (Euronext Euronext N.V. (short for European New Exchange Technology) is a pan-European bourse that offers various trading and post-trade services. Traded assets include regulated equities, exchange-traded funds (ETF), warrants and certificates, bonds, de ...) since 1990. In the 1960s and 1970s, France-Empire was notable due to the success of a series of works written by the journalist . was devoted to the writings of deportations during the Holocaust, which were the biggest sellers at the time. Éditions France-Empire then pursued with catalog essays, no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Girard (1909–1993)
André Girard (born 22 April 1909 in Cahors, died 4 June 1993 in La Mulatière, near Lyon) was a French civil servant and Resistance worker with the ALLIANCE network. Life Pre-war Girard worked for the ''Société d'exploitation industrielle des tabacs et des allumettes'' in France from 1929 onwards. French Resistance He was captured at the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940, but escaped from Germany in 1941 to Brive-la-Gaillarde and soon joined the French Resistance. Under the pseudonym "Pointer", Girard was the regional head of the Alliance or "Arche de Noé" resistance network in occupied France from 1940 to 1945, the only network whose supreme commander was a woman, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade (Alias "Hérisson"). This network was notable for giving almost all of its three thousand agents codenames based on animals : Bleu d'Auvergne, Setter, Labrador, Bichon, Abeille, Aigle... Divided up by region, the network's central command was "Hôpital" (centre-west sector), which Girard led fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Publishing Companies Of France
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Suard
Pierre Suard, born November 9, 1934 in Lons-le-Saunier, France, is an engineer, French senior official, and director of national companies. He is an alumnus of École Polytechnique and École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC). Career After studying at École Polytechnique and ENPC (Ponts-et-Chaussées), Suard began working at the Compagnie Générale d’Électricité ( CGE) in 1973. He was named CEO of the subsidiary Les Câbles de Lyon (Lyon Cable), which moved from fifth place to first in international ranking during the three years of his tenure. In 1986, when CGE was privatized, he was named CEO of the group by prime minister Édouard Balladur. In 1991, CGE became Alcatel Alsthom, and in 1998 the company’s name was changed to Alcatel. Suard presided over the development of the first digital telephone exchanges, as well as that of fiber optic cables, which were eventually bought by ITT. He transformed a French company that was known foremost for its close relationship with the go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Spade
Henri Spade (16 July 1921 - 12 November 2008) was a French journalist, television producer and novelist. He co-produced ''La joie de vivre'', the first entertainment program on French television, in the 1950s. He directed and produced television films. He was "a pioneer of French television". Early life Henri Spade was born on July 16, 1921, in Paris, France. He graduated from the University of Paris and the University of Strasbourg, where he studied the Humanities and the Law. During World War II, he joined the Free French Forces in Spain. Career Spade began his career as a journalist in Paris from 1945 to 1949. He became a television producer for Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française in 1949. He first co-produced ''Le Magazine du cinéma'', a television program about cinema, with Robert Chazal, in 1949. With Jean Nohain, he co-produced over 200 episodes ''La joie de vivre'' from 1952 to 1959. Hosted by Jacqueline Joubert at the Alhambra theatre, it was the first entertainment p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Roussin
Michel Roussin (born May 3, 1939 in Rabat, Morocco) was the chief of staff of Alexandre de Marenches, who directed the SDECE French secret service until the May 1981 election of François Mitterrand as President of France. Michel Roussin has also been chief of staff of Jacques Chirac when he was mayor of Paris and also when he was prime minister. Roussin then became minister of cooperation under Edouard Balladur's government. However, he had to resign, in accordance with the so-called Balladur jurisprudence because of suspected involvement in various affairs concerning the illegal funding of Chirac's Rally for the Republic (RPR) party. Jailed for a time, Roussin was afterwards acquitted. However, on October 26, 2005, he was condemned to four years of prison on probation and a 50,000 EUR fine for his role in the corruption affair concerning high schools in the Paris region. Named to the direction of SAE International, a construction firm linked to Paribas bank, Roussin in 1997 fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonel RĂ©my
Gilbert Renault (August 6, 1904 – July 29, 1984), known by the nom de guerre Colonel Rémy, was a notable French secret agent active in World War II, and was known under various pseudonyms such as ''Raymond'', ''Jean-Luc'', ''Morin'', ''Watteau'', ''Roulier'', ''Beauce'' and ''Rémy''. Biography Gilbert Renault was born in Vannes, France, the oldest child of a Catholic family of nine children. His father was a professor of Philosophy and English, and later the inspector general of an insurance company. He went to the ''Collège St-François-Xavier'' in Vannes, and after his studies he went to the Rennes faculty. His sisters were Maisie Renault and Madeleine Cestari. A sympathizer of French Action in the Catholic and Nationalist line, he began his career at the Bank of France in 1924. In 1936, he began cinematic production and finances, and made ''J'accuse'', a new version of the Abel Gance film. It was a resounding failure, but the many connections Renault made during thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Prasteau
Jean Prasteau (12 May 1921 in Aytré, Charente-Maritime – 9 August 1997 in Paris) was a 20th-century French journalist and historian. He won the 1992 Prix Cazes for his book ''Les grandes heures du Faubourg Saint-Germain''. Publications *1954''Les Iles d'Ouest'' *1957: ''Iles de Paris'', Arthaud *1960: ''Fenêtres sur Seine'', le Livre contemporain *1963: ''C'était la Dame aux camélias'', *1968: ''Les automates'', Éditions Gründ *1974: ''Les Heures Enchantées du Marais'', Perrin, *1975''La Merveilleuse aventure du Casino de Paris'' Éditions Denoël, *1981: ''Il était une fois des enfants dans l’histoire'', Perrin,Prix M. et Mme Louis Marin de l'Académie française*1982: ''La Gare de Lyon et ses grandes heures'', S.N.C.F. *1985: ''Voyage Insolite dans la Banlieue de Paris'', Perrin, *1989: ''Charentes et merveilles'', Éditions France-Empire, *1989: ''Il était une fois Versailles'', , *1991: ''L'orgue du diable'', Presses de la Cité, *1992: ''Les grandes he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Mazeaud
Pierre Mazeaud (; born 24 August 1929) is a French jurist, politician and alpinist. In February 2004, he was appointed president of the Constitutional Council of France by President of France Jacques Chirac, replacing Yves Guéna, until he was succeeded by Jean-Louis Debré in February 2007. He had been a member of the council since February 1998. Pierre Mazeaud has a doctorate in law from the University of Paris (on marriage and the condition of the married woman in ancient Rome). From 1961 to 1964, he was a member of the judiciary. In 1976, he became a counsellor in the Council of State, a position from which he retired on 25 August 1995. During the 1970s, he held subordinate governmental positions regarding sports. Pierre Mazeaud's main hobby is alpinism, which he practiced at high level. On 11 July 1961, Mazeaud and other fellow climbers almost died in the Mont Blanc massif due to an unexpected storm.''Le Monde'', 22 July 2005, Mazeaud et la loi de la survie', by Charli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Kieffer
Philippe Kieffer (24 October 1899 – 20 November 1962), ''capitaine de frégate'' in the French Navy, was a French officer and political personality, and a hero of the Free French Forces. Life and career Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to an Alsatian paternal family and an English mother, Philippe Kieffer obtained a diploma at the La Salle Extension University in Chicago and became a bank director in New York City. On 2 September 1939, aged 40, he volunteered for military service. He joined the French Navy, in which he was a reserve officer, a week later. He served on the battleship ''Courbet'', and at the headquarters of the Northern Fleet during the Battle of Dunkirk. He left for London on 19 June 1940 and joined the Free French Naval Forces (''Forces Navales Françaises Libres'') on 1 July 1940, the day they were founded. Speaking fluent English, he was asked to serve as a translator and cipher officer. Impressed by the techniques of the new British Commandos, formed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Gauthier
Guy Gauthier (March 20, 1920 - March 10, 2014) was a Canadian politician and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. Background He was born in Acton Vale, Montérégie and became a physician. City Politics Gauthier served as a city councillor from 1950 to 1953, as Mayor from 1955 to 1972 and as school board member from 1959 to 1963 in Saint-Michel-des-Saints. Member of the legislature He ran as a Union Nationale candidate in the 1966 election in the provincial district of Berthier and won. He served as the parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Health in 1969 and 1970. He was re-elected in the 1970 election. Gauthier served as his party's Deputy House Whip from 1966 to 1972. He lost the 1973 election against Liberal candidate Michel Denis Michel Denis (born May 1, 1941, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French jazz and blues drummer. Denis played early in his career with the Roman Dixieland Jazz Band, and worked extensively with dixieland and swing musici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
