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Paris
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Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. It has an area of 105 square kilometres and a population of 2,229,621 in 2013 within its administrative limits, the agglomeration has grown well beyond the citys administrative limits. By the 17th century, Paris was one of Europes major centres of finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts, and it retains that position still today. The aire urbaine de Paris, a measure of area, spans most of the Île-de-France region and has a population of 12,405,426. It is therefore the second largest metropolitan area in the European Union after London, the Metropole of Grand Paris was created in 2016, combining the commune and its nearest suburbs into a single area for economic and environmental co-operation. Grand Paris covers 814 square kilometres and has a population of 7 million persons, the Paris Region had a GDP of €624 billion in 2012, accounting for 30.0 percent of the GDP of France and ranking it as one of the wealthiest regions in Europe. The city is also a rail, highway, and air-transport hub served by two international airports, Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly. Opened in 1900, the subway system, the Paris Métro. It is the second busiest metro system in Europe after Moscow Metro, notably, Paris Gare du Nord is the busiest railway station in the world outside of Japan, with 262 millions passengers in 2015. In 2015, Paris received 22.2 million visitors, making it one of the top tourist destinations. The association football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris, the 80, 000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros, Paris hosted the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The name Paris is derived from its inhabitants, the Celtic Parisii tribe. Thus, though written the same, the name is not related to the Paris of Greek mythology. In the 1860s, the boulevards and streets of Paris were illuminated by 56,000 gas lamps, since the late 19th century, Paris has also been known as Panam in French slang. Inhabitants are known in English as Parisians and in French as Parisiens and they are also pejoratively called Parigots. The Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, inhabited the Paris area from around the middle of the 3rd century BC. One of the areas major north-south trade routes crossed the Seine on the île de la Cité, this place of land and water trade routes gradually became a town
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In the 1860s Paris streets and monuments were illuminated by 56,000 gas lamps, making it literally "The City of Light."
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Gold coins minted by the Parisii (1st century BC)
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The
Palais de la Cité and
Sainte-Chapelle, viewed from the Left Bank, from the
Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (month of June) (1410)
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Actor
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Anyone who meets the eligibility requirements may apply for aid, which could vary from medical assistance, paying rent, or finding employment. Heros benefits are not meant to be a permanent crutch for needy creators, any granted aid is kept confidential. The Hero Initiative has two boards of directors, the Executive Board and the Fund Disbursement Board, former board members include founders Pat McCallum, editor-in-chief of Wizard Magazine, and Mike Richardson, publisher and founder of Dark Horse Comics. They are George Pérez, Roy Thomas, Charlie Novinskie, Dennis ONeil, John Romita Sr. the charity is currently supported by Dark Horse Comics, Dynamic Forces, Image Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Top Cow Productions, and Wizard Entertainment. The Hero Initiative utilizes many methods of fundraising, foremost is their annual art auction, auctioning donated original comics art-work at fan conventions. Year-long, they sell donated art and special edition comics at conventions, artists, writers, and publishers are invited to donate work, and fans are invited to donate money directly to the fund. ACTOR also sells a green Excelsior, wrist-band similar in design to the Livestrong wristband. The Hero Initiative was formerly known as A Commitment to Our Roots, or ACTOR, while the original name of the organization reflected the charitys goal, the acronym that resulted, ACTOR, more often confused people unfamiliar with the organization. 2006, George Pérez, John Romita, Sr.2007, Joe Kubert 2008, Nick Cardy 2009, Neal Adams 2010, Walt Simonson 2011, Stan Lee 2012, John Romita, Jr. The award recognizes one person in each year who demonstrates particular generosity and integrity in support of the overall comic book community. It debuted at the 2010 Harvey Awards ceremony held at the Baltimore Comic-Con
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The Hero Initiative
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Comedian
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A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, a comedian who addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comic. Since the 1980s, a new wave of comedy, called alternative comedy, has grown in popularity with its more offbeat and this normally involves more experiential, or observational reporting, e. g. Alexei Sayle, Daniel Tosh, Louis C. K. and Malcolm Hardee. Many comics achieve a cult following while touring famous comedy hubs such as the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, the Edinburgh Fringe, often a comics career advances significantly when they win a notable comedy award, such as the Edinburgh Comedy Award. Comics sometimes foray into other areas of entertainment, such as film and television, however, a comics stand-up success does not guarantee a films critical or box office success. Comedians can be dated back to 425 BC, when Aristophanes and he wrote 40 comedies,11 of which survive and are still being performed. Aristophanes comedy style took the form of satyr plays, the English poet and playwright William Shakespeare wrote many comedies. A Shakespearean comedy is one that has an ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more light-hearted than Shakespeares other plays. Charles Chaplin was the most popular comedian of the first half of the 20th century. He wrote comedic silent films such as Modern Times and The Kid and his films still have a major impact on comedy in films today. One of the most popular forms of comedy is stand-up comedy. Stand-up comedy is a monologue performed by one or more people standing on a stage. Bob Hope was the most popular comedian of the 20th century. Other noted stand-up comedians include George Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld, Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Louis CK, another popular form of modern-day comedy is talk shows where comedians make fun of current news or popular topics. Such comedians include Jay Leno, Conan OBrien, Daniel Tosh, Chris Hardwick, Jimmy Fallon, David Letterman, a third form of modern-day comedy is television programs in which many comedians band together to make skits, such as Saturday Night Live. These shows often receive high ratings, likely because many comedians band together to create jokes, one of the most successful comedians is Ellen Degeneres, who has parlayed her comic career into film, television shows, and hosting major media events. In 1986, Ellen DeGeneres appeared for the first time on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson since she began gaining popularity as a comic in the 1980s. Johnny Carson, who launched many contemporary comics careers, would invite them to join him on the couch for one-on-one conversation after their set
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Charlie Chaplin in the film
The Champion, 1915
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Sarah Silverman at
Upright Citizens Brigade in
LA, 2013
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Adam Sandler circa 2011
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Singer
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist, Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists, Singers may perform as soloists, or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged or improvised and it may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual, as part of music education, or as a profession. Excellence in singing requires time, dedication, instruction, and regular practice, if practice is done on a regular basis then the sounds can become more clear and strong. Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific genre, such as classical or rock. They typically take voice training provided by teachers or vocal coaches throughout their careers. Though these four mechanisms function independently, they are coordinated in the establishment of a vocal technique and are made to interact upon one another. During passive breathing, air is inhaled with the diaphragm while exhalation occurs without any effort, exhalation may be aided by the abdominal, internal intercostal and lower pelvis/pelvic muscles. Inhalation is aided by use of external intercostals, scalenes and sternocleidomastoid muscles, the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming, humans have vocal folds which can loosen, tighten, or change their thickness, and over which breath can be transferred at varying pressures. The shape of the chest and neck, the position of the tongue, any one of these actions results in a change in pitch, volume, timbre, or tone of the sound produced. Sound also resonates within different parts of the body and an individuals size, Singers can also learn to project sound in certain ways so that it resonates better within their vocal tract. This is known as vocal resonation, another major influence on vocal sound and production is the function of the larynx which people can manipulate in different ways to produce different sounds. These different kinds of function are described as different kinds of vocal registers. The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singers Formant and it has also been shown that a more powerful voice may be achieved with a fatter and fluid-like vocal fold mucosa. The more pliable the mucosa, the more efficient the transfer of energy from the airflow to the vocal folds, Vocal registration refers to the system of vocal registers within the voice. A register in the voice is a series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds
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American jazz singer and songwriter
Billie Holiday in New York City in 1947
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"Vocalist" redirects here. See also:
Lead vocalist and
Backing vocalist.
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Ercole de' Roberti: Concert, c. 1490
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Rock singer Ian Gillan performing live with
Deep Purple in
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Mononymously
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A mononymous person is an individual who is known and addressed by a mononym, or single name. In some cases, that name has been selected by the individual, in other cases, it has been determined by the custom of the country or by some interested segment. In the case of historical figures, it may be the one of the individuals names that has survived and is still known today. The structure of persons names has varied across time and geography, in some societies, individuals have been mononymous, receiving only a single name. Alulim, first king of Sumer, is one of the earliest names known, Narmer, later, Biblical names were typically mononymous, as were names in the surrounding cultures of the Fertile Crescent. Mononyms in other ancient cultures include the Celtic queen Boudica and the Numidian king Jugurtha, however the historical record of eg Boudicca is scanty, and there is no evidence that she did not also have other names. Between Columbus arrival in the New World and the late 19th century, examples include Moctezuma, Anacaona, Agüeybaná, Diriangen, Urracá, Guamá, Atahualpa, Lempira, Lautaro, Tamanaco, Pocahontas, Auoindaon, Cangapol, and Tecumseh. Uniquely, the Dutch-Seneca diplomat Cornplanter received both a Seneca-language mononym from his mother and a name and surname from his father. His later descendants, such as Jesse Cornplanter, used Cornplanter as the name instead of Abeel. In the 19th century, most chiefs involved in the Apache Wars had mononym birth names, and some replaced those with mononymous nicknames, Geronimo, Victorio, Cochise, and so on. Since the medieval period, mononyms in the west have almost exclusively used to identify people who already had surnames. These nicknames were either adopted by the persons themselves or conferred by contemporaries, some French authors have shown a preference for mononyms. In the 17th century, the dramatist and actor Jean-Baptiste Poquelin took the stage name Molière. In the 18th century, François-Marie Arouet adopted the mononym Voltaire, the new name combined several features. Arouet would not have served the purpose, given that names associations with roué, in the 20th century, a fourth French writer, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, used her actual surname as her mononym pen name, Colette. Some French actors and singers have used their name or surname as a stage mononym. In the 17th and 18th centuries, most Italian castrato singers used mononyms as stage names, the German writer, mining engineer and philosopher, Georg Friedrich Philipp Freiherr von Hardenberg, became famous as Novalis. In 2002 Multatuli was proclaimed by the Society for Dutch Literature to have been the most important Dutch writer of all time, the Dutch writer Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh wrote under the pseudonym Nescio
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Plato, the Greek philosopher, is universally known by a single name.
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Akihito,
Emperor of Japan
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U Thant
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Sting
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Le Corniaud
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The Sucker is a French, Italian and Spanish comedy film by Gérard Oury starring Louis de Funès and Bourvil. As of 2013, it is one of the 20 highest-grossing films in France along with La Grande Vadrouille. The film was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival where the actor Bourvil won a Special Diploma, while leaving his flat in Paris for vacation, Antoine Maréchal has a car accident. His 2CV is totally wrecked by the Bentley of Léopold Saroyan, as a compensation for the accident, Saroyan offers Maréchal to drive his best friends 1964 Cadillac DeVille from Naples to Bordeaux, all expenses paid. Unknown to Maréchal, Saroyan is the leader of an organization and the Cadillac is filled with drugs, stolen gold and diamonds, including the largest diamond in the World. Maréchal departs for his destination, oblivious of both his cargo and Saroyan who is following him to watch over the delivery. Unfortunately, a gang of Italian criminals has become aware of Saroyans plan and follows the car closely, along the way, most of the illegal goods hidden in the Cadillac are lost or stolen by other parties. When Antoine Marechal pieces together Saroyans plan while crossing the border and this all comes to fruition in the French town of Carcassonne
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Film poster
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Machiavellianism
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Machiavellianism is the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct. The word comes from the Italian Renaissance diplomat and writer Niccolò Machiavelli, born in 1469 and it was in this context that the St. The English playwrights William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe were enthusiastic proponents of this view, the Anti-Machiavel is an 18th-century essay by Frederick the Great, King of Prussia and patron of Voltaire, rebutting The Prince, and Machiavellianism. It was first published in September 1740, a few months after Frederick became king, denis Diderot, the French philosopher, viewed Machiavellianism as an abhorrent type of politics and the art of tyranny. In the 1960s, Richard Christie and Florence L. Geis developed a test for measuring a persons level of Machiavellianism and their Mach - IV test, a twenty-statement personality survey, became the standard self-assessment tool of Machiavellianism. Using their scale, Christie and Geis conducted multiple experimental tests showed that the interpersonal strategies and behavior of High Machs. Their basic results have been widely replicated, measured on the Mach - IV scale, males are, on average, slightly more Machiavellian than females. A1992 review described Machiavellian motivation as related to cold selfishness and pure instrumentality, High Machs admitted to focusing on unmitigated achievement and winning at any cost. Due to their skill at interpersonal manipulation, there has often been an assumption that high Machs possess superior intelligence, however, research has firmly established that Machiavellianism is unrelated to IQ. Both empathy and emotion recognition have been shown to have negative correlations with Machiavellianism, additionally, research has shown that Machiavellianism is unrelated to a more advanced theory of mind, that is, the ability to anticipate what others are thinking in social situations. If high Machs actually are skilled at manipulating others this appears to be unrelated to any special abilities as such. Machiavellianism is one of the three personality traits referred to as the triad, along with narcissism and psychopathy. Machiavellianism has been found to be correlated with Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. However, Machiavellianism correlates more highly with the Honesty-humility dimension of the six-factor HEXACO model than any of the Big Five dimensions. Machiavellianism has also located within the interpersonal circumplex, which consists of the two independent dimensions of agency and communion. Agency refers to motivation to succeed and to individuate the self, whereas communion refers to motivation to merge with others, Machiavellianism lies in the quadrant of the circumplex defined by high agency and low communion. Machiavellianism has been found to lie diagonally opposite from a construct called self-construal. This suggests that high in Machiavellianism do not simply wish to achieve
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Niccolò Machiavelli
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General
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Jean-Pierre Melville
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Jean-Pierre Melville was a French filmmaker. While with the French Resistance during World War II, he adopted the nom de guerre Melville as a tribute to his favorite American author and he kept it as his stage name once the war was over. Jean-Pierre Grumbach was born in 1917 in Paris, France, the son of Berthe, after the fall of France in 1940 during World War II, Grumbach entered the French Resistance to oppose the German Nazis who occupied the country. He adopted the nom de guerre Melville, after the American author Herman Melville, when he returned from the war, he applied for a license to become an assistant director but was refused. Without this support, he decided to direct his films by his own means and he became an independent film-maker and owned his own studio. Influenced by American cinema, especially gangster films of the 1930s and 1940s, he used such as weapons, clothes. Melvilles independence and reporting style of film-making were an influence on the French New Wave film movement. Jean-Luc Godard used him as a character in his seminal New Wave film Breathless. When Godard was having difficulty editing the film, Melville suggested that he just cut directly to the best parts of a shot, Godard was inspired and the films innovative use of jump cuts have become part of its fame. Although a friend of left-wing icons such as Yves Montand, Melville referred to himself as an extreme individualist, in 1963 he was invited as one of the jury at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. Melville died in Paris in 1973 from an attack at the age of 55. com Jean-Pierre Melville World Socialist Web Site Article at Senses of Cinema
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Jean-Pierre Melville
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Le Cercle rouge
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Le Cercle Rouge is a 1970 Franco-Italian crime film set mostly in Paris. It was directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and stars Alain Delon, Andre Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè and it is known for its climactic heist sequence which is about half an hour in length and without any dialogue. This Buddha quote is made up by Melville just as he did with the epigraph in Le Samouraï, in Marseille, a prisoner named Corey is released early for good behaviour. A warder tips him off about a jewellery shop he could rob in Paris. He goes to the house of Rico, an associate of his with whom his former girlfriend now lives, then he goes to a billiard hall, where two of Ricos men find him. After killing one and taking his gun, Corey buys a car and, hiding the guns in the boot. On the way, he stops at a roadside grill to eat, the same morning another prisoner, Vogel, who is being taken on a train from Marseille to Paris by the policeman Mattei, escapes in open country. Mattei orders roadblocks to be set, and returns to face his superiors, Vogel comes upon the roadside grill and hides in the boot of Coreys car. Realising someone is in the boot, with his guns, Corey drives into an open field, after a tense confrontation, the two decide to co-operate. Shortly after, with Vogel back in the boot, a car with two more of Ricos men forces Corey off the road and they take his money and are about to kill him when Vogel, emerging from the boot, shoots both dead. Corey takes Vogel to his empty flat in Paris and starts to plan the robbery, for this he needs a marksman, to disable the security system by a single rifle shot, and a fence to buy the goods. At the same time, Mattei is planning how to locate the murderer of Ricos men and he puts pressure on Santi, a night club owner who knows most of the underworld, to find them. Corey recruits Jansen, an alcoholic ex-policeman and a shot, together with a fence. However, his fence refuses to take the goods, having been warned off by Rico, Santi tips off Mattei, who poses as a fence and asks Corey to bring the goods to a country house. When Corey does so, leaving Vogel and Jansen waiting in the car and it has a deliberate pace as Melville sets up the story of three chance acquaintances who plan and carry out the sacking of an elegant, supposedly impregnable jewelry store. Peter Bradshaw, in a 2003 review of a 102-minute reissue, called the film a treat, hong Kong director John Woo wrote an essay for the Criterion DVD of Le Cercle Rouge arguing the films merits. When the film was given a theatrical re-release, Woo was given a presenter credit
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Le Cercle Rouge
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Jacques Offenbach
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Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and he was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr. and Arthur Sullivan. His best-known works were revived during the 20th century. The Tales of Hoffman remains part of the opera repertory. Born in Cologne, the son of a cantor, Offenbach showed early musical talent. At the age of 14, he was accepted as a student at the Paris Conservatoire but found academic study unfulfilling, from 1835 to 1855 he earned his living as a cellist, achieving international fame, and as a conductor. His ambition, however, was to compose pieces for the musical theatre. Finding the management of Paris Opéra-Comique company uninterested in staging his works, there he presented a series of his own small-scale pieces, many of which became popular. In 1858, Offenbach produced his first full-length operetta, Orphée aux enfers, during the 1860s, he produced at least 18 full-length operettas, as well as more one-act pieces. His works from this period included La belle Hélène, La Vie parisienne, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Offenbach became associated with the Second French Empire of Napoleon III, the emperor and his court were genially satirised in many of Offenbachs operettas. Napoleon III personally granted him French citizenship and the Légion dHonneur, with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Offenbach found himself out of favour in Paris because of his imperial connections and his German birth. He remained successful in Vienna and London, however and he re-established himself in Paris during the 1870s, with revivals of some of his earlier favourites and a series of new works, and undertook a popular U. S. tour. In his last years he strove to finish The Tales of Hoffmann, but died before the premiere of the opera, Offenbach was born Jacob or Jakob Offenbach to a Jewish family, in the German city of Cologne, which was then a part of Prussia. His birthplace in the Großen Griechenmarkt was a distance from the square that is now named after him. He was the son and the seventh of ten children of Isaac Juda Offenbach né Eberst and his wife Marianne. Isaac, who came from a family, had abandoned his original trade as a bookbinder and earned an itinerant living as a cantor in synagogues. He was generally known as der Offenbacher, after his native town, Offenbach am Main, in 1816 he settled in Cologne, where he became established as a teacher, giving lessons in singing, violin, flute and guitar, and composing both religious and secular music. When Jacob was six years old, his father taught him to play the violin, within two years the boy was composing songs and dances, and at the age of nine he took up the cello
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Offenbach in the 1860s
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Offenbach in the 1840s
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Early influences:
Luigi Cherubini and
Fromental Halévy (top);
Louis-Pierre Norblin and
Friedrich von Flotow (below)
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Offenbach as a young cello virtuoso, drawing by Alexandre Laemlein from 1850
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The Tales of Hoffmann
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The Tales of Hoffmann is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. It was Offenbachs final work, as he died a year before the premiere, Barbier and Michel Carré had previously written a play, Les contes fantastiques dHoffmann, which was produced at the Odéon Theatre in Paris in 1851, and which Offenbach had seen. After returning from America in 1876 he learned that Barbier had adapted the play, Salomon handed the project to Offenbach. Work proceeded slowly interrupted by the composition of more profitable lighter works, Offenbach himself had a premonition that like Antonia he would die prior to its completion. He continued working on the opera throughout 1880, attending some rehearsals, shortly before he died he had written to Léon Carvalho, Hâtez-vous de monter mon opéra. Il ne me reste plus longtemps à vivre et mon seul désir est dassister à la première, the stories used in the opera were, Der Sandmann,1816. Das verlorene Spiegelbild from Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht,1814, the opera was first performed in a public venue, at the Opéra-Comique on 10 February 1881, without the third act. Besides Léon Carvalho, director of the Opéra-Comique, the director of the Ringtheater in Vienna, both men requested the rights, but Offenbach granted them to Carvalho. The opera reached its hundredth performance at the Salle Favart on the 15 December 1881, a new production by Albert Carré was mounted at the Opéra-Comique in 1911, with Léon Beyle in the title role and Albert Wolff conducting. This production remained in the repertoire until World War II, receiving 700 performances, following a recording by Opéra-Comique forces in March 1948, Louis Musy created the first post-war production in Paris, conducted by André Cluytens. The Paris Opera first staged the work in October 1974, directed by Patrice Chéreau with Nicolai Gedda in the title role. Outside France, the piece was mounted in Geneva, Budapest, Hamburg, New York, and Mexico in 1882, Vienna, Prague, and Antwerp in 1883, and Lvov and Berlin in 1884. Later local premieres included Buenos Aires in 1894, St Petersburg in 1899, Barcelona in 1905, and London in 1910. The Muse appears and reveals to the audience that her purpose is to draw Hoffmanns attention to herself and she takes the appearance of Hoffmanns closest friend, Nicklausse. The prima donna Stella, currently performing Mozarts Don Giovanni, sends a letter to Hoffmann, the letter and the key to the room are intercepted by Councillor Lindorf, who is the first of the operas incarnations of evil, Hoffmanns nemesis. Lindorf intends to replace Hoffmann at the rendezvous, in the tavern students wait for Hoffmann. He finally arrives and entertains them with the legend of Zaches the dwarf, Lindorf coaxes Hoffmann into telling the audience about his lifes three great loves
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Jacques Offenbach
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Scenes from The Tales of Hoffmann from the Paris premiere
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The death of Antonia (act 2) in the original 1881 production. In front: Adèle Isaac; in back (left to right): Hippolyte Belhomme, Marguerite Ugalde, Pierre Grivot, Émile-Alexandre Taskin, Jean-Alexandre Talazac.
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Prologue (or epilogue), in the 1881 première
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Le Rosier de Madame Husson
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Le Rosier de Madame Husson is a novella by Guy de Maupassant, published in 1887. The hero is a young boy, the equivalent of a Rose Queen. The story was adapted by the English composer Benjamin Britten for his comic opera Albert Herring with a libretto by Eric Crozier who transposed it entirely to an English setting. Madame Husson, the model of virtue in Gisors, is promoting chastity in her town by seeking to crown a rosière, however, no girl can stand up to the investigations that take place, and Madame Husson crowns the village idiot, Isidore, as the rosier. He uses his reward to slum it in Paris,1931, Le Rosier de Madame Husson by Bernard Deschamps 1931, La Déchéance dIsidore, played by Fernandel, silent 1950, Le Rosier de Madame Husson by Jean Boyer. Marcel Pagnol, writer of the screenplay, imagines that the character of Bourvil, is sponsored by a lady patroness,2008, Le Rosier de Madame Husson, played by Marie-Anne Chazel as part of a series, Chez Maupassant, on France 2. Plot, Adaptations and Filmography Audio version of Le Rosier de Madame Husson
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Le Passe-muraille
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Mr. Peek-a-Boo or Garou-Garou, Le Passe-muraille is a 1951 French comedy farce film, directed by Jean Boyer. The film is based on the story by Marcel Aymé about a man who could walk through walls. The film premiered on 6 April 1951, a simple civil servant Léon, who has the unusual ability to walk through walls, falls madly in love with a hotel thief by the name of Susan. He poses as the notorious gangster Garou-Garou to attempt to woo her affections, as a prisoner he annoys the guards by walking in and out of his cell, and keeps asking Susan to cease her criminal way of life. As fundamentally being an honest and law-abiding citizen, he eventually handles back everything he has stolen, is acquitted by the court, when he learns that Susan is planning to return to England and start a new life, he decides to confess his emotions to her. However, the couple is interrupted by a rush of journalists. Trying to escape in a building, they get cornered on a corridor, but by doing this, he loses his own wall-walking ability, and the film concludes. The medical specialist René Worms. an employee at the ministry Nina Myral, mrs. Eloise André Dalibert Nicole Riche. The lady on the second floor Germaine Reuver, mrs. Ménard, the concierge Jeanne Véniat. Gustave Lécuyer Le Passe-muraille launched the career of its star, Bourvil. Bourvil plays the character of Léon, an man of the street with particular affection for women, especially Joan Greenwoods character. The film is noted for its quality of the special effects which were in their infancy at the time this film was made. The film was released in black and white although a version of the film also exists. The Man Who Walked Through the Wall Mr. Peek-a-Boo at the Internet Movie Database Mr. Peek-a-Boo at AllMovie
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The Three Musketeers (1953 film)
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The Three Musketeers is a 1953 film based on the French novel of the same name. This adaptation is one of five films director André Hunebelle and screen writer Michel Audiard achieved together, in real life he was clearly older than this character, but Marchal happened to be one of the most famous actors of European cinema in these days. With hindsight this adaptation might be regarded as one of his lesser important appearances because later on he even starred for Luis Buñuel. Young dArtagnan leaves his parents and travels from his native Gascony to the capital of France because he wants to prove himself an excellent fencer and he is told by his father he must not avoid any duel. On his way to Paris, dArtagnan feels that his honour is besmirched because he overhears how his horse is derided by a sinister nobleman and he cant help but demand immediate satisfaction. Unfortunately, of all men he finds he has challenged the Count de Rochefort, rocheforts henchmen take care of dArtagnan and steal from him. If he fails her, Cardinal Richelieu is going to disclose Queen Annes infidelity to King Louis XIII, the Cardinal and Count de Rochefort will do everything in their power if only they can put paid to dArtagnans mission. But with help from his three new friends dArtagnan prevails, the film was shot in the Studios de Saint-Maurice, on the premises of castle Fontainebleau and in the Forest of Fontainebleau. In 1966 André Hunebelle returned to Fontainebleau for his film Fantômas contre Scotland Yard, due to the films success André Hunebelle directed three more swashbuckler films and hereby established Jean Marais as a fixture for this genre. This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia, the Three Musketeers at the Internet Movie Database Biography of Michel Audiard on his homepage
The Three Musketeers (1953 film)
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The Three Musketeers
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
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Royal Affairs in Versailles is a 1954 French historical drama directed by Sacha Guitry, which tells some episodes through portrayal of the personalities who lived in Versailles castle. Its sister films are Napoléon and If Paris Were Told to Us, the film is notable for the presence of a great number of well-known French actors, often appearing in short parts. One unknown actor playing a character is Gilbert Bokanowski portraying Louis XVI. Bokanowski was actually the production manager and was cast because of his strong resemblance to the monarch. Its English translation title is If Versailles Were Told to Me, despite French production, the film is best known by its English title Royal Affairs in Versailles. Historical human stories in connection with the Royal Palace, the Chateau of Versailles
Royal Affairs in Versailles
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Theatrical release poster
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Sacha Guitry
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Alexandre-Pierre Georges Sacha Guitry was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the Boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry and he became known for his stage performances, often in boulevardier roles, in the many plays he wrote, of which there were more than 120. He was married five times, always to rising actresses whose careers he furthered, probably his best-known wife was Yvonne Printemps to whom he was married between 1919 and 1932. Guitrys plays range from historical dramas to contemporary light comedies, some have musical scores, by composers including André Messager and Reynaldo Hahn. When silent films became popular Guitry avoided them, finding the lack of spoken dialogue fatal to dramatic impact, from the 1930s to the end of his life he enthusiastically embraced the cinema, making as many as five films in a single year. The later years of Guitrys career were overshadowed by accusations of collaborating with the occupying Germans after the capitulation of France in the Second World War, the charges were dismissed, but Guitry, a strongly patriotic man, was disillusioned by the vilification by some of his compatriots. By the time of his death his popular esteem had been restored to the extent that 12,000 people filed past his coffin before his burial in Paris. Guitry was born at No 12 Nevsky Prospect, Saint Petersburg, Russia, the couple had eloped, in the face of family disapproval, and were married at St Martin in the Fields, London, in 1882. They then moved to the Russian capital, where Lucien ran the French theatre company, Guitry senior was a persistent adulterer, and his wife instituted divorce proceedings in 1888. Two of their sons died in infancy, the surviving son, Jean became an actor. The familys Russian nurse habitually shortened Alexandre-Pierres name to the Russian diminutive Sacha, the young Sacha made his stage debut in his fathers company at the age of five. Lucien Guitry, considered the most distinguished actor in France since Coquelin, was immensely successful, when he returned to Paris he lived in a flat in a prestigious spot, overlooking the Place Vendôme. and the Rue de la Paix. The young Sacha lived there, and for his schooling he was first sent to the well-known Lycée Janson de Sailly in the fashionable Sixteenth arrondissement. He did not stay there, and went to a succession of other schools. After giving up school Guitry embarked on a career as a playwright with a musical piece called Le Page, with a score by Ludo Ratz. Eighteen months later he joined his fathers company at the Théâtre de la Renaissance, at first he appeared under the stage name Lorcey, the pseudonym deceived no-one, as the press immediately announced the debutants real identity. His first role was in LEscalier, by Maurice Donnay in November 1904 and he fell out with his father over what the latter saw as Guitrys lack of professionalism. In the aftermath of their quarrel they neither saw nor spoke to one another, a member of Lucien Guitrys company was a young actress, Charlotte-Augustine-Hortense Lejeune, whose stage name was Charlotte Lysès
Sacha Guitry
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Sacha Guitry in 1931
Sacha Guitry
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Guitry and Printemps in
Mozart (1925)
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Guitry by
Léon Gard
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Les Hussards
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The film is known under the titles Cavalrymen, Les hussards, De husaren, La piccola guerra, Huszárok. During the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars Brigadier Le Gouce, afraid of a severe punishment both lie to Captain Georges. They just make up a story about them having been the target of a selective ambush, little later their regiment is annihilated by an Austrian attack. Only the two humbuggers are lucky enough to survive, napoleon has them celebrated as heroes and thus they get into the books of history
Les Hussards
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Film poster
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Captain Blood (1960 film)
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Captain Blood is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Michel Zévaco, lorenzo The Captain Captain Blood at the Internet Movie Database allrovi/synopsis, Le Capitan
Captain Blood (1960 film)
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Captain Blood
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Fortunat
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Fortunat is a 1960 Franco-Italian co-production motion picture comedy directed and written by Alex Joffé, based on a novel by Michel Breitman. The film stars Bourvil and Michèle Morgan and it tells the story of a lazy man who helps sociable lady and her children from the Nazis. Miss Massillon, a teacher, tries to help Juliette who is sought by the Nazis since her husband. Juliette and her children must gain the free zone to take refuge in Toulouse, for that it is necessary for them to cross the line of demarcation. It is Fortunat which is charged to lead in place the two children and their mother. Close links will link Fortunat and Juliette, a scene of film implies clearly that they have a sexual relationship at least once. But the release occurs and Juliette finds her husband, Fortunat sets out again then towards its destiny of solitary man
Fortunat
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Original film poster
