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Théâtre Tristan-Bernard
The théâtre Tristan-Bernard is a private List of theatres and entertainment venues in Paris, Parisian theatre located at 64 rue du Rocher in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. History Built in 1911 by the foundation Léopold-Bellan (which still owns it today) to host meetings and educational shows of its institution of young girls, the venue opened in 1919 to the public under the name Théâtre Albert-I, in honor of Albert I of Belgium, king of Belgium. Tristan Bernard took the lead in 1930. He renamed it Théâtre Tristan-Bernard and presented his comedies for a season. After his departure, the theater regained its name Théâtre Albert-Ier. In 1936, the comedian Charles de Rochefort, on his return from the United States where he worked for Cecil B. de Mille, reopened the theater, which became the Théâtre Charles-de-Rochefort with ''Allo, Police-secours'', a police play under the pseudonym Chas D. Strongstone. The success incited him to present many police and suspense pl ...
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André Roussin
André Roussin, (22 January 1911 – 3 November 1987), was a French playwright. Born in Marseille, he was elected to the Académie française on 12 April 1973. Biography Early life and education Born on 119 rue Paradis in Marseille, he was raised in Saint-Barnabé in a family belonging to the upper-middle class of Marseille: his father, Joseph-André Honoré Louis Roussin (1877-1932), was an insurer, his mother, Félicité-Louise-Suzanne Gardair (1884-1976), was one of six daughters of a powerful Marseille industrialist who inspired the works ''Le Tombeau d'Achille'' and ''La Sainte Famille''. His father encouraged him to study law after his baccalauréat even though he knew that that did not fit with his son's aspirations; 'My son has a dual ambition; to be the worst in class and to become Napoleon. As to the first ambition I think that he won't have any issue, as to the second, I'm not sure I'll live to see his coronation'. Interested in the arts (he painted and had play ...
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André Chamson
André Chamson (6 June 1900 – 9 November 1983) was a French archivist, novelist and essayist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the father of the novelist Frédérique Hébrard. Biography Chamson was born at Nîmes, Gard. Having studied at the École des chartes, as an palaeographer, archiviste paléographe (graduation 1924), he was the founder-director of the journal ''Vendredi'' and a museum curator before the Second World War. In July 1937 he attended the Second International Writers' Congress, the purpose of which was to discuss the attitude of intellectuals to the war in Spain, held in Valencia, Barcelona and Madrid and attended by many writers including André Malraux, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Spender and Pablo Neruda. After the War he was on the editorial board of the magazine ''Europe (magazine), Europe'' at the time of its revival in 1946; he was a curator at the Musée du Petit Palais, and (from 1959 to 1971) director of the Archives de ...
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Prosper Mérimée
Prosper Mérimée (; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella ''Carmen'', which became the basis of Bizet's opera ''Carmen''. He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, before translating the work of several notable Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French. From 1830 until 1860 he was the inspector of French historical monuments, responsible for the protection of many historic sites, including the medieval citadel of Carcassonne and the restoration of the façade of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Along with the writer George Sand, he discovered the series of tapestries called '' The Lady and the Unicorn'', arranging for their preservation. He was instrumental in the ...
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André Clavé
André Clavé (1916–1981) was a French actor, director, theater director and Resistance fighter, deported during the Second World war, in the concentration camps of Buchenwald and of Dora. Bibliography * Francine Galliard-Risler, ''André Clavé : Théâtre et Résistance – Utopies et Réalités'', A.A.A.C., Paris, 1998 – Ouvrage collectif écrit et dirigé par FGR, avec de très nombreux témoignages enregistrés et retranscrits – Préface de Jean-Noël Jeanneney - Épilogue de Pierre Schaeffer * André Sellier, ''Histoire du camp de Dora'', éditions de La Découverte, Paris, 1998 * Pierre Sudreau, ''Au-delà de toutes les frontières'', 1991 ; 2è édition complétée : éditions Odile Jacob, 2002 * Pierre Saint-Macary, ''Mauthausen : percer l'oubli'', éditions de L'Harmattan,coll. Mémoires du XXè siècle, Paris 2003 * Francine Galliard-Risler, ''Dora-Harzungen, la marche de la mort'', Éditions Alan Sutton, St-Cyr-sur-Loire, 2005 – Ouvrage collectif dirigé p ...
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Seán O'Casey
Seán O'Casey ( ; born John Casey; 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes. Early life O'Casey was born at 85 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin, as John Casey, the son of Michael Casey, a mercantile clerk (who worked for the Irish Church Missions), and Susan Archer. His parents were Protestants and he was a member of the Church of Ireland, baptised on 28 July 1880 in St. Mary's parish, confirmed at St John the Baptist Church in Clontarf, and an active member of St. Barnabas' Church on Sheriff Street until his mid-20s, when he drifted away from the church. There is a church called 'Saint Burnupus' in his play '' Red Roses For Me''. O'Casey's father died when Seán was just six years of age, leaving a family of thirteen. The family lived a peripatetic life thereafter, moving from house to house around north Dublin. As a child, he suffere ...
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August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg (; ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout his life, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and historical plays to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his '' The Red Room'' (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially noveli ...
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Jean Laugier
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Sylvain Dhomme
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Marcel Moussy
Marcel Moussy (7 May 1924 – 10 August 1995) was a French people, French screenwriter and television director. Moussy was born in Algiers. He was co-nominated with François Truffaut for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film ''The 400 Blows'' (1959). He died in Caen, aged 71. Selected filmography * ''The Verdict (1959 film), The Verdict'' (1959) * ''The 400 Blows'' (1959) * ''Le Maître de pension'' (1973 - writer and director) References External links

* 1924 births 1995 deaths French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters French television directors People from Algiers 20th-century French male writers {{Tv-director-stub ...
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Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico (; ) is a given name and surname. It is a form of Frederick, most commonly found in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. People with the given name Federico Arts and language * Federico Ágreda, Venezuelan composer and DJ * Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, renowned Filipino painter * Federico Andahazi, Argentine writer and psychologist * Federico Aubele, Argentine singer-songwriter * Federico Ayos, Argentine actor * Federico Canessi (1905–1977), Mexican sculptor, muralist * Federico Casagrande, Italian jazz guitarist * Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor who is most famous for his role as Furio Giunta on the HBO TV series, The Sopranos * Federico Cesari, Italian actor * Federico Cortese, Italian conductor, Music Director of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras and the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra * Federico D'Elía, Argentine actor * Federico Elizalde, Filipino marksman and musician * Federico Falco, Argentine writer * Federico Fellini, Italian film-maker and direct ...
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Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille (; ; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later quarrelled with him, especially over his best-known play, '' Le Cid'', about a medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the newly formed for breaching the unities. He continued to write well-received tragedies for nearly forty years. Biography Early years Corneille was born in Rouen, Normandy, France, to Marthe Le Pesant and Pierre Corneille, a distinguished lawyer. His younger brother, Thomas Corneille, also became a noted playwright. He was given a rigorous Jesuit education at the ''Collège de Bourbon'' ( Lycée Pierre-Corneille since 1873), where acting on the stage was part of the training. At 18 he began to study law, but ...
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