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Allary Éditions
Allary Éditions is an independent French publishing house. History Founded in 2013 by Guillaume Allary, a former philosophy teacher from Nancy, who worked for the Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur, then Flammarion, Hachette Littératures and NiL Éditions, and publishes about fifteen of works per year. A generalist house, Allary Éditions publishes novels, essays and comics. It limits its production to about fifteen titles per year. It publishes, in each field, reference authors, able to address the greatest number of people while building a work. Catalog * Riad Sattouf **''L'Arabe du futur, L'Arabe du futur 1, Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1978-1984)'', 2014 **''L'Arabe du futur 2, Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1984-1985)'', 2015 **''Les Cahiers d'Esther, Histoires de mes 10 ans'', 2016 **''L'Arabe du futur 3, Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1985-1987)'', 2016 **''Les Cahiers d'Esther, Histoires de mes 11 ans'', 2017 **''Les Cahiers d'Esther, Histoires de mes 12 ans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riad Sattouf
Riad Sattouf (; born 5 May 1978) is a French cartoonist, comics, comic artist, and film director. Sattouf is best known for his graphic memoir ''L'Arabe du futur'' (''The Arab of the Future'') and for his film The French Kissers, ''Les Beaux Gosses'' (''The French Kissers''). He also worked for the satirical French weekly ''Charlie Hebdo'' for ten years, from 2004 to mid-2014, publishing drawing boards of one of his major works ''La vie secrète des jeunes''. Life and career Riad Sattouf was born in Paris, to a Syrians, Syrian father and Bretons, Breton mother, and spent his childhood in Libya and Syria, then returned to France to spend his teenage years in Brittany, studying in Rennes. An avid reader of cartoon books and periodicals, sent to him by his grandmother, he was fascinated by them. Although he was studying to become a pilot, he applied to study at École Pivaut and then Gobelins (school of image), Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image to study animation. The famous cartoonist Oli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Arabe Du Futur
''The Arab of the Future'' () is a graphic memoir by French cartoonist Riad Sattouf. The work recounts Sattouf's childhood growing up in France, Libya and Syria in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. The first volume of ''L'Arabe du futur'' won the 2015 '' Fauve d’Or'' prize for best graphic novel at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Eventually another version was released which cut out some details but combined all 6 books into 1. Sattouf's father influenced the title of the memoir through his ideal of raising his son as an "Arab of the future." Early in the story, the elder Sattouf proclaims, "I'd change everything among the Arabs. I'd force them to stop being bigots, to educate themselves, and to enter into the modern world. I'd be a good President." Purposefully written from the perspective of a child, Sattouf employs simplistic yet comprehensive drawings that are more rudimentary than, yet not entirely dissimilar to, his other works such as '' La vie secrète des jeun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthieu Ricard
Matthieu Ricard (; , born 15 February 1946) is a Nepalese French writer, photographer, translator and Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal. Matthieu Ricard grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles. He received a PhD degree in molecular genetics from the Pasteur Institute in 1972. He then decided to forsake his scientific career and instead practice Tibetan Buddhism, living mainly in the Himalayas. Ricard is a board member of the Mind and Life Institute. He received the French National Order of Merit for his humanitarian work in the East with Karuna-Shechen, the non-profit organization he co-founded in 2000 with Rabjam Rinpoche. Since 1989, he has acted as the French interpreter for the 14th Dalai Lama. Since 2010, he has been travelling and giving a series of talks with and assisting in teachings by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, the incarnation of Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Life Born in Aix-les-Bains, Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe André
Christophe André (born 29 May 1987 in La Réunion) is a professional squash player who represented France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan .... He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 112 in August 2014. References External links * * 1987 births Living people French male squash players 21st-century French sportsmen {{France-squash-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Singer
Wolf Joachim Singer (born 9 March 1943) is a German neurophysiologist. Life and career Singer was born in Munich and studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) from 1965 onwards (as a scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation) and 1965/66 two semesters at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1968, he received his Ph.D. from Ludwig Maximilian University with his doctoral thesis on "The role of telencephalic commissures in bilateral EEG-synchrony." His doctoral supervisor was Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry. During his advanced training in neurophysiology, he spent a year at the University of Sussex in England. In 1970 he received his medical licence as a physician while working as a doctor at the University Hospital Munich. In 1975, he habilitated in Physiology at the Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Munich. In 1981, he was appointed a member of the Max Planck Society and Director of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphaël Glucksmann
Raphaël Glucksmann (, born 15 October 1979) is a French politician. Since 2019, he has been a member of the European Parliament (MEP), within the S&D alliance. Early life and career Glucksmann is the son of philosopher André Glucksmann (who was an Ashkenazi Jew) and Françoise Glucksmann (née Villette), daughter of philosopher Jeannette Colombel. Between 2005 and 2012, he was an adviser to the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. He was married to former Georgian and Ukrainian politician Eka Zguladze, with whom he has a son. Zguladze was a special adviser to President Saakashvili from 2009 to 2012 and later served as First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine from 2014 to 2016. The couple are now divorced. Political career Beginnings In 2018, Glucksmann founded the centre-left political party Place Publique. Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present On 26 May 2019, Place Publique and the French Socialist Party presented a joint list at the Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Pépin
Charles Pépin is a French philosopher and novelist. He was born in Saint Cloud in 1973. He is the author of several bestsellers, such as ''Les Vertus de l’échec'' (Allary Éditions, 2016), ''La Confiance en soi'' (Allary Éditions, 2018) and ''La Planète des sages'' (Dargaud, 2011 et 2015). He graduated from HEC Paris and Sciences Po. Books Essays *''Une semaine de philosophie'', Flammarion, 2006 / J'ai Lu, 2008 *''Les Philosophes sur le divan - Quand Freud rencontre Platon, Kant et Sartre'', Flammarion, 2008 / J'ai Lu, 2010 *''Qu'est-ce qu'avoir du pouvoir ?'', Desclée de Brouwer, 2010 *''Ceci n'est pas un manuel de philosophie'', Flammarion, 2010 *''Un homme libre peut-il croire en Dieu'', Éditions de l'opportun, 2012 *''Quand la Beauté nous sauve'', Robert Laffont, 2013, Marabout 2014 *''Les Vertus de l'échec'', Allary Éditions, 2016 *''La Confiance en soi'', Allary Éditions, 2018 *''La Rencontre'', Allary Éditions, 2021 Novels * ''Descente'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Pivot
Bernard Pivot (; 5 May 1935 – 6 May 2024) was a French journalist, interviewer and host of cultural television programmes. He was chairman of the Académie Goncourt from 2014 to 2020. Biography Pivot was born in Lyon on 5 May 1935, the son of two grocers. During World War II his father, Charles Pivot, was taken prisoner and his mother moved the family home to the village of Quincié-en-Beaujolais, where Bernard Pivot started school. In 1945 his father was released and the reunited family returned to Lyon. At age 10 Pivot went to a Catholic boarding school where he discovered a passion for sport, while he was more average at traditional school subjects, except French and history. After starting law studies in Lyon Pivot entered the Centre de formation des journalistes (CFJ) in Paris, where he met his future wife, Monique. He graduated second in his class. After an internship at '' Le Progrès'' in Lyon, he studied economic journalism for a full year, and then joined the '' F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Grothendieck
Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French (; ; ; 28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014), was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. His research extended the scope of the field and added elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory, and category theory to its foundations, while his so-called "relative" perspective led to revolutionary advances in many areas of pure mathematics. He is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century. Grothendieck began his productive and public career as a mathematician in 1949. In 1958, he was appointed a research professor at the Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHÉS) and remained there until 1970, when, driven by personal and political convictions, he left following a dispute over military funding. He received the Fields Medal in 1966 for advances in algebraic geometry, homological algebr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence De Cambronne
Laurence de Cambronne (born 1 May 1951, Casablanca, Morocco) is a French journalist, novelist and humanitarian. Biography Family and formation Descendant of Arnouph Deshayes de Cambronne who owned the Château d'Orrouy and Paul Cottin on her father's side and Ernest Picard-Destelan and Joseph Thebaud on her mother's side, she is a niece of rear admiral, François Picard-Destelan, former president of the International Monetary Fund, Jacques de Larosière, admiral of the United States Navy, Leo Hewlett Thebaud and American philanthropist, Louis A. Thebaud. She was inspired by the diaries kept by her mother, Marie Picard Destelan, during the Second World War, her succinct notes on her day's activities, her meetings with a married man based on her father, Claude de Cambronne, an aircraft manufacturer, co-founder of Bordeaux-Aéronautique, the aryanized company of Marcel Dassault (ex-Bloch) ; Raphael Alibert, who promulgated the first Law on the status of Jews of October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Hazanavicius
Michel Hazanavicius ( ; born 29 March 1967) is a French film director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. He is best known for his 2011 film, ''The Artist (film), The Artist'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 84th Academy Awards. It also won him the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed spy film parody, parodies ''OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies'' (2006) and ''OSS 117: Lost in Rio'' (2009). Life and career Hazanavicius was born in Paris. His family is Lithuanian Jews, Jewish, and originally from Lithuania. His grandparents were from both Poland and Lithuania and settled in France in the 1920s. Before directing films, Hazanavicius worked in television, beginning with the Canal+ (French TV channel), Canal+ channel, where he started as a director in 1988.Michel Hazanavicius. ''All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Bastide
Lauren Bastide (born 30 October 1981) is a French journalist, feminist, podcaster, spokesperson for the better representation of women and an activist on intersectional feminism. Biography Bastide was born in Orléans, France on 30 October 1981. She completed her baccalaureate in 1997, before spending a year in a literary preparatory class. In 2002, she graduated with a degree in International Relations from the Institute of Political Studies in Strasbourg. Bastide later went back to college to earn a master's degree in Gender Studies from University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. She spent time working in a number of positions in Reuters and Le Monde. Bastide graduated from the Training Center for Journalists (CFJ) in 2005. Her work appeared in Lurve and Antidote between 2009 and 2014. Bastide spent ten years working on the editorial staff of Elle before being made the editor-in-chief of the news pages. With Sophie Fontanel, she founded the DailyElle in April 2012. This was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
