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Jacques Dutronc (1968 album)
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Jacques Dutronc is the second studio album by the French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc, released in 1968. The single Il est cinq heures, Paris séveille was number one on the French charts for one week, garage rock band Black Lips covered Hippie Hippie Hourrah on their third LP Let It Bloom, released in 2005. Words by Jacques Lanzmann and Anne Ségalen
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Jacques Dutronc
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Lorient
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Lorient is a commune and a seaport in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France. Beginning around 3000 BC, settlements in area of Lorient are attested by the presence of megalithic architecture, ruins of Roman roads confirm Gallo-Roman presence. In 1664, Jean-Baptiste Colbert founded the French East Indies Company, in June 1666, an ordinance of Louis XIV granted lands of Port-Louis to the company, along with Faouédic on the other side of the roadstead. One of its directors, Denis Langlois, bought lands at the confluence of the Scorff and the Blavet rivers, at first, it only served as a subsidiary of Port-Louis, where offices and warehouses were located. The company then erected a chapel, workshops, forges, and offices, the French Royal Navy opened a base there in 1690, under the command of Colbert de Seignelay, who inherited his fathers position as Secretary of State of the Navy. At the same time, privateers from Saint-Malo took shelter there, in 1700, the town grew out of lEnclot following a law forcing people to leave the domain to move to the Faouédic heath. Despite the economic bubble caused by the Company in 1720, the city was growing as it took part in the Atlantic triangular slave trade. From 1720 to 1790,156 ships deported an estimated 43,000 slaves, sales began in 1734, peaking up to 25 million livres tournois. In 1769, the Companys monopoly ended with the scrapping of the company itself, up until Companys closure, the city took advantage of its prosperity. In 1735, new streets were laid down and in 1738, in 1744, the city walls were erected, and proved quickly useful as Lorient was raided in September 1746. Following the demise of the Company, the city lost one-seventh of its population, in 1769, the city evolved into a full-scale naval base for the Royal Navy when the King bought out the Companys infrastructures for 17,500,000 livres tournois. From 1775 on, the American revolutionary war brought a surge in activity, the French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic wars put an end to trade for nearly two decades. Maritime activities slowed at the start of the 19th century, the shipyards, during this period, the city was more of an administrative center. The first secondary school opened in 1822, a lazaretto in 1823, the city began to modernize in the second quarter of the century, in 1825, a roofed slipway and a drydock were added to the shipyards. A sardine cannery opened the same year, the first gasworks was built in 1845. In the second half of the 19th century, the engine allowed the ports to strengthen their output. The first locomotive reached the city in 1865, in 1861, the original drydock was enlarged as a second one was dug out. The same year, the ironclad Couronne was built on a design inspired by the Gloire class, though unlike her wooden-hull predecessors
Lorient
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Aerial view of the harbour of Lorient
Lorient
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Lorient in the 18th century
Lorient
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L'Enclos at the end of the 18th century
Lorient
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The Harbor at Lorient, 1869 painting by
Berthe Morisot.
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Chanson
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A chanson is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specializing in chansons is known as a chanteur or chanteuse, the earliest chansons were the epic poems performed to simple monophonic melodies by a professional class of jongleurs or ménestrels. These usually recounted the deeds of past heroes, legendary. The Song of Roland is the most famous of these, the chanson courtoise or grand chant was an early form of monophonic chanson, the chief lyric poetic genre of the trouvères. It was an adaptation to Old French of the Occitan canso and it was practised in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Thematically, as its name implies, it was a song of courtly love, some later chansons were polyphonic and some had refrains and were called chansons avec des refrains. A Crusade song was known as a chanson de croisade, in its typical specialized usage, the word chanson refers to a polyphonic French song of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Early chansons tended to be in one of the formes fixes—ballade, the earliest chansons were for two, three or four voices, with first three becoming the norm, expanding to four voices by the sixteenth century. Sometimes, the singers were accompanied by instruments, the first important composer of chansons was Guillaume de Machaut, who composed three-voice works in the formes fixes during the 14th century. Guillaume Dufay and Gilles Binchois, who wrote so-called Burgundian chansons, were the most important chanson composers of the next generation and their chansons, while somewhat simple in style, are also generally in three voices with a structural tenor. Musicologist David Fallows includes the Burgundian repertoire in A Catalogue of Polyphonic Songs 1415-1480 and these works are typically still 3 voices, with an active upper voice pitched above two lower voices usually sharing the same range. The first book of music printed from movable type was Harmonice Musices Odhecaton and this genre sometimes featured music that was meant to be evocative of certain imagery such as birds or the marketplace. Many of these Parisian works were published by Pierre Attaingnant, composers of their generation, as well as later composers, such as Orlando de Lassus, were influenced by the Italian madrigal. Many early instrumental works were ornamented variations on chansons, with this becoming the canzone. French solo song developed in the late 16th century, probably from the aforementioned Parisian works, louis Niedermeyer, under the particular spell of Schubert, was a pivotal figure in this movement, followed by Édouard Lalo, Felicien David and many others. Another offshoot of chanson, called chanson réaliste, was a musical genre in France. Among the better-known performers of the genre are Damia, Fréhel, chanson can be distinguished from the rest of French pop music by following the rhythms of French language, rather than those of English, and a higher standard for lyrics. Canzone Russian chanson French historical chanson panorama Brown, Howard Mayer, in The Oxford Companion to Music, edited by Alison Latham
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French singer-songwriter and anarchist
Léo Ferré, in 1991.
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Garage rock
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Garage rock is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada. The term derives from the perception that groups were made up of young amateurs who rehearsed in the family garage. The style, a precursor to rock, is characterized by aggressive and unsophisticated lyrics and delivery. In the US and Canada, surf rock—and later the Beatles, hundreds of acts produced regional hits, and some had national hits. Though largely associated with North America, counterparts were present elsewhere as part of the beat boom of the era. As critics of the period began to prescribe a scope for genre, they used the term punk rock. Garage rock has experienced various revivals in the years and continues to influence acts who prefer a back to basics. In the early- to mid-1980s, several garage revival scenes sprung up featuring acts that consciously attempted to replicate the look, in the 2000s, a wave of garage rock revival acts associated with the post-punk revival emerged, and a handful achieved airplay and commercial success. The term garage rock comes from the perception that its performers were young and amateurish, while numerous bands were made up of middle-class teenagers from the suburbs, others were from rural or urban areas or were composed of professional musicians in their twenties. The term garage band often refers to acts in this genre. Garage bands performed in a variety of venues, less-established groups typically played at parties, school dances, and teen clubs. For acts of legal age, bars, nightclubs, and college fraternity socials also provided regular engagements, occasionally, local groups had the opportunity to open at shows for famous touring acts. Some garage rock bands went on tour, particularly better-known acts, groups often competed in battles of the bands, which gave musicians an opportunity to gain exposure and a chance to win a prize, such as free recording time in a local studio. Battles of the bands were held, locally, regionally and nationally, and two of the most prestigious contests were held annually by the Tea Council of the U. S. A. and the Music Circus. Performances often sounded amateurish, naïve or intentionally raw, with typical themes revolving around the traumas of high school life, instrumentation was characterized by electric guitars often distorted through a fuzzbox, teamed with bass and drums. Guitarists sometimes played using aggressive-sounding bar chord riffs, sometimes referred to as power chords, organs such as the Farfisa were commonly used as well as mouth harmonicas or hand-held percussion such as tambourines. Occasionally, the tempo sped up in certain passages, sometimes referred to as raveups, Garage rock acts were diverse in both musical ability and in style, ranging from crude two- and three-chord music to near-studio musician quality. There were also variations in flourishing scenes, such as in California
Garage rock
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The D-Men (later
the Fifth Estate) in 1964
Garage rock
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Richard Berry, whose 1957 song "
Louie Louie " inspired
the Wailers,
the Kingsmen, and in turn thousands of other garage bands
Garage rock
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Paul Revere and the Raiders in 1967
Garage rock
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The Pleasure Seekers (Suzi Quatro at far right) pictured in 1966
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Psychedelic rock
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Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often used indiscriminately. Musically, the effects may be represented via novelty studio tricks, electronic or non-Western instrumentation, disjunctive song structures, some of the earlier 1960s psychedelic rock musicians were based in folk, jazz, and the blues, while others showcased an explicit Indian classical influence called raga rock. In the 1960s, there existed two main variants of the genre, the whimsical British pop-psychedelia, and the harder American West Coast acid rock. While acid rock is often deployed interchangeably with the psychedelic rock, it can also refer more specifically to the heavier. The genre bridged the transition from early blues- and folk-based rock to rock and hard rock. Since the late 1970s it has revived in various forms of neo-psychedelia. The term psychedelic was first coined in 1956 by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond as a descriptor for hallucinogenic drugs in the context of psychedelic psychotherapy. As the countercultural scene developed in San Francisco, the acid rock. In the popular music of the early 1960s, it was common for producers, songwriters, and engineers to freely experiment with form, arrangements, unnatural reverb. Some of the best known examples are Phil Spectors Wall of Sound production formula, there was no transition to be made. You go from things like Flying Purple People Eater to I Am the Walrus, music critic Richie Unterberger says that attempts to pin down the first psychedelic record are therefore nearly as elusive as trying to name the first rock & roll record. Some of the far-fetched claims include the instrumental Telstar and the Dave Clark Fives massively reverb-laden Any Way You Want It, the first mention of LSD on a rock record was the Gamblers 1960 surf instrumental LSD25. American folk singer Bob Dylan was an influence on mid 1960s rock music. He led directly to the creation of rock and the psychedelic rock musicians that followed. Molly Longman of mic. com writes that, in terms of bridging the relationship between music and hallucinogens, the Beatles and the Beach Boys were the eras most pivotal acts. The considerable success enjoyed by these two bands allowed them the freedom to experiment with new technology over entire albums. In Unterbergers opinion, the Byrds, emerging from the Californian folk scene, with their ominous minor key melodies, hyperactive instrumental breaks, and use of Gregorian chants. In the songs lyric, the requests, Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship
Psychedelic rock
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A
sitar, much used on early records of the genre.
Psychedelic rock
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Bob Dylan and
Allen Ginsberg in 1975
Psychedelic rock
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Big Brother and the Holding Company, c. 1966–67:
Janis Joplin is seated in the foreground.
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Thomas Dutronc
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Thomas Dutronc is a jazz French guitarist. His mother is the singer Françoise Hardy and his father is the singer, songwriter, guitarist, and film actor Jacques Dutronc. On 13 February 2008, he received the UNAC award for his song Jaime plus Paris and it also became the most played French single around the world during 2008. On 8 March 2008, he was nominated at the 23rd Victoires de la Musique in the categories as new artist of the year and album of the year. Thomas Dutronc is a member of the Les Enfoirés charity ensemble since 2009, official Web Site Thomas Dutronc on YouTube Thomas Dutronc on MySpace Thomas Dutronc Discography Thomas Dutronc on Last. fm
Thomas Dutronc
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Thomas Dutronc
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Waterloo Sunset
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Waterloo Sunset is a song by British rock band The Kinks. It was released as a single in 1967, and featured on their album Something Else by The Kinks and it is also their first single that is available in true stereo. The record reached number 2 on the British charts in mid 1967 and it was also a top 10 hit in Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe. In North America, Waterloo Sunset was released as a single, the lyrics describe a solitary narrator watching two lovers passing over a bridge, with the melancholic observer reflecting on the couple, the Thames, and Waterloo station. The song was rumoured to have inspired by the romance between two British celebrities of the time, actors Terence Stamp and Julie Christie, stars of 1967s Far from the Madding Crowd. In a 2010 interview with Kinks biographer Nick Hasted, he said Terry was his nephew Terry Davies, in the end we used a tape-delay echo, but it sounded new because nobody had done it since the 1950s. I remember Steve Marriott of the Small Faces came up and asked me how wed got that sound and we were almost trendy for a while. The single was one of the groups biggest UK successes, reaching two on Melody Makers chart, and went on to become one of their best-known. The elaborate production was the first Kinks recording produced solely by Ray Davies, in 2010 Ray Davies stated the song was originally entitled Liverpool Sunset. In an interview with the Liverpool Echo, he explained, Liverpool is my city. Id fallen in love with Liverpool by that point, on every tour, that was the best reception. We played The Cavern, all those old places, and I couldnt get enough of it, I had a load of mates in bands up there, and that sound – not The Beatles but Merseybeat – that was unbelievable. It used to me every time. Later it got changed to Waterloo Sunset, but theres still that play on words with Waterloo, London was home, Id grown up there, but I like to think I could be an adopted Scouser. The song derives from the period 1965-73 when Ray Davies lived at 87 Fortis Green, I didnt think to make it about Waterloo, initially, Davies said in a 2010 interview, but I realised the place was so very significant in my life. I was in St Thomas Hospital when I was really ill and it was also about being taken down to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its about the two characters - and the aspirations of my sisters generation who grew up during the Second World War and its about the world I wanted them to have. That, and then walking by the Thames with my first wife, Davies first wife was Rasa Didzpetris, the mother of his first two daughters
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"Waterloo Sunset"
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Waterloo Station, London.
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The Kinks
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The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. They are regarded as one of the most important and influential bands of the era. The band emerged during the height of British rhythm and blues and Merseybeat and their third single, the Ray Davies-penned You Really Got Me, became an international hit, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and reaching the Top 10 in the United States. Between the mid-1960s and early 1970s, the released a string of hit singles, studio albums drew good reviews. Their music was influenced by a range of genres, including rhythm and blues, British music hall, folk. They gained a reputation for reflecting English culture and lifestyle, fuelled by Ray Davies observational writing style, in addition, groups such as Van Halen, the Jam, the Knack, the Pretenders and the Fall covered their songs, helping to boost the Kinks record sales. In the 1990s, Britpop acts such as Blur and Oasis cited the band as a major influence, the Kinks broke up in 1996, a result of the commercial failures of their last few albums and creative tension between the Davies brothers. Ray Davies and Dave Davies remained members throughout the groups 32-year run, longest-serving member Mick Avory was replaced by Bob Henrit, formerly of Argent, in 1984. Original bassist Pete Quaife was replaced by John Dalton in 1969, session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins accompanied the band in the studio for many of their recordings in the mid-to-late 1960s. In 1969 the band became an official five-piece when keyboardist John Gosling joined them, being replaced by Ian Gibbons in 1979, the group had five Top 10 singles on the US Billboard chart. Nine of their albums charted in the Top 40, in the UK, the group had seventeen Top 20 singles and five Top 10 albums. Four of their albums have been certified gold by the RIAA and have gone on to sell over 50 million albums worldwide, among numerous honours, they received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Service to British Music. In 1990, the four members of the Kinks were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Davies brothers were born in suburban North London on Huntingdon Road, East Finchley and their parents, Frederick and Annie Davies, moved the family to 6 Denmark Terrace, Fortis Green, in the neighbouring suburb of Muswell Hill. At home they were immersed in a world of varied styles, from the music hall of their parents generation to the jazz and early rock. Both Ray and his brother Dave, younger by almost three years, learned to play guitar, and they played skiffle and rock and roll together. The brothers attended William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School, where formed a band. Their debut at a dance was well received, which encouraged the group to play at local pubs
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Original line-up in 1965. From left: Pete Quaife, Dave Davies, Ray Davies, Mick Avory.
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6 Denmark Terrace, the childhood home of the Davies brothers. The front room is where the family's frequent Saturday night parties were held.
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Publicity photo taken during a Swedish tour in 1965
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With the newly hired John Dalton in 1969. From left: Dave Davies, Ray Davies, Dalton, Mick Avory
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All Music Guide
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
All Music Guide
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AllMusic's
logotype and logo (since July 2013)
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Solo (music)
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In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer. Performing a solo is to solo, and the performer is known as a soloist, the plural is soli or the anglicised form solos. Furthermore, the word soli can be used to refer to a number of simultaneous parts assigned to single players in an orchestral composition. In the Baroque concerto grosso, the term for such a group of soloists was concertino, cadenza Concerto Drum solo Guitar solo Piano solo Tutti Virtuoso
Solo (music)
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Trumpeter, bandleader and singer
Louis Armstrong: as soloist.
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Van Gogh (1991 film)
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Van Gogh is a 1991 French film written and directed by Maurice Pialat. It stars Jacques Dutronc in the role of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, the film was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards, for this reason it is often contrasted with Vincente Minnellis Van Gogh film Lust for Life. Very little time is devoted to Van Goghs art and work, with the bulk of the 158-minute running time occupied by the often difficult personal relationships. The film omits most references to many of the most famous incidents in Van Goghs life in favor of concentrating on the dynamics of the late 19th century. Writing in The Washington Post, critic Desson Howe explains, In the movie, you dont see Van Gogh complete the final stroke of a masterpiece. You do see a thin, stringy man, suffering headaches, enjoying whores. Van Gogh denies you familiar highlights, keeps you from his working elbow, but it shows you the quotidian stuff in between. This is the story of an artist being human, carrying out or lugging them back in – their famous images intentionally out of sight
Van Gogh (1991 film)
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Poster
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9th arrondissement of Paris
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The 9th arrondissement, located on the Right Bank, is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, France. Along with the 2nd and 8th arrondissements, it one of the business centers of Paris. The land area of this arrondissement is 2.179 km2, groupe Danone has its head office in the 17 Boulevard Haussmann building in the 9th arrondissement. BNP Paribas has its office in the arrondissement. Kroll Inc. also has an office in this arrondissement, until June 1995, the head office of Société Générale was in this arrondissement. On that month the head office moved to the Société Générale Towers, the former head office remains as the companys registered office. Google Paris has its offices in the arrondissement, the peak population of the 9th arrondissement occurred in 1901, when it had 124,011 inhabitants. Since then, the arrondissement has widely attracted business activity, as a result, the population was in 1999 only 55,838 inhabitants, while it held 111,939 jobs. Media related to Paris 9e arrondissement at Wikimedia Commons 9th arrondissement travel guide from Wikivoyage
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Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement.
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Opéra Garnier
9th arrondissement of Paris
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La mairie d'arrondissement, 6 rue Drouot
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Galeries Lafayette
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Eddy Mitchell
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Claude Moine, better known by his stage name Eddy Mitchell, is a French singer and actor. The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Golf-Drouot before signing to Barclay Records and finding almost instant success, heavily influenced by American rock and roll, Mitchell has often recorded outside France, at first in London, but later in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. Guitarists Big Jim Sullivan and Jimmy Page and drummer Bobby Graham were among the British session musicians who supported him in London. For his American recordings he employed session men such as Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, Kenneth Buttrey, Reggie Young, David Briggs, Charlie McCoy and others. A great lover of American films, he hosted La Dernière Séance and its format was like an old-fashioned double-feature picture show, with two movies, cartoons, newseels, and stage attractions. He is the voice of Flappy in the French version of the 2005 film of The Magic Roundabout, cétait le soldat Mitchell 1963, Eddy in London 1964, Panorama 1964, Toute la ville en parle. Une femme peut en cacher une autre Ronde de nuit À mort larbitre Frankenstein 90 La Galette du roi I Love You Autour de minuit Un père et passe Promotion canapé Until the End of the World La Totale
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Eddy Mitchell in 2014.
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Lui
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The Civil Aviation Authority, earlier the Civil Aviation Administration, was a government agency of Hungary that acted as that countrys civil aviation authority. The head office was located in Building 13 of Budapest Ferihegy International Airport Terminal 1 in Budapest, in 2007 the successor agency, the National Transport Authority, began operations on 1 January 2007. The Transportation Safety Bureau is the agency that investigates accidents and incidents
Lui
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Gate A at
Budapest Airport leads to the former CAA-HU head office
Lui
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Beatnik
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Beatnik was a media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. Elements of the beatnik trope included pseudo-intellectualism, drug use, Kerouac introduced the phrase Beat Generation in 1948, generalizing from his social circle to characterize the underground, anticonformist youth gathering in New York at that time. In 1954, Nolan Miller published his novel, Why I Am So Beat. The adjective beat was introduced to the group by Herbert Huncke, Beat came from underworld slang—the world of hustlers, drug addicts, and petty thieves, where Allen Ginsberg and Kerouac sought inspiration. Beat was slang for beaten down or downtrodden, but to Kerouac and Ginsberg, other adjectives discussed by Holmes and Kerouac were found and furtive. Kerouac felt he had identified a new trend analogous to the influential Lost Generation, wed even heard old 1910 Daddy Hipsters of the streets speak the word that way, with a melancholy sneer. It never meant juvenile delinquents, it meant characters of a special spirituality who didnt gang up but were solitary Bartlebies staring out the dead wall window of our civilization, Kerouac explained what he meant by beat at a Brandeis Forum, Is There A Beat Generation. On November 8,1958, at New Yorks Hunter College Playhouse, panelists for the seminar were Kerouac, James A. Wechsler, Princeton anthropologist Ashley Montagu, and author Kingsley Amis. Wechsler, Montague, and Amis all wore suits, while Kerouac was clad in jeans, ankle boots. Who knows, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, Kerouacs address was later published as The Origins of the Beat Generation. The vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific, people began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the avatar of all this. Suburban couples could have beatnik parties on Saturday nights and drink too much, Kerouac biographer Ann Charters noted that the term Beat was appropriated to become a Madison Avenue marketing tool, The term caught on because it could mean anything. It could even be exploited in the affluent wake of the decade’s extraordinary technological inventions, almost immediately, for example, advertisements by hip record companies in New York used the idea of the Beat Generation to sell their new long playing vinyl records. And most are certain that their readers, or viewers, are of limited ability and must have things explained simply. Thus, the reporters in the media tried to relate something that was new to already preexisting frameworks and images that were only vaguely appropriate in their efforts to explain and simplify. With a variety of oversimplified and conventional formulas at their disposal, they back on the nearest stereotypical approximation of what the phenomenon resembled. And even worse, they did not see it clearly and completely at that, and in this, they were aided and abetted by the Poetic Establishment of the day. The consequence is, that though we may know now that these images do not accurately reflect the reality of the Beat movement
Beatnik
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Beat, Beat, Beat by
William F. Brown.
Beatnik
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Poster for The Beatniks (1960)
Beatnik
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For other uses, see
Beatnik (disambiguation).
Beatnik
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The news photo caption for this 1959 event in
Venice, California, read: "Beatnik Beauties: Posing before a sample of beatnik art are contestants for the title of Miss Beatnik of 1959, which will be conferred Sept. 12 under sponsorship of the Venice Arts Committee. From left are Michi Monteef, Sammy McCord, Patti McCrory, Shaunna Lea and, in rear, Jan Vandaveer."
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Et moi, et moi, et moi
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Et moi, et moi, et moi is the debut single by French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc, released in 1966. It is featured on his debut album. The record came about as the result of rivalry between the two artistic directors at Disques Vogue, Christian Fechner and Jacques Wolfsohn. According to legend, Wolfsohn, who had previously promoted Françoise Hardy, Wolfsohn wanted to better Fechners success with the hippy-influenced singer-songwriter Antoine. He asked Jacques Dutronc, at that time his assistant and a songwriter at Vogue, and the novelist Jacques Lanzmann to work on songs for a rival act, Benjamin released an EP in 1966, featuring songs written with Dutronc and a Lanzmann-Dutronc composition, Cheveux longs. However, Wolfsohn was disappointed by Benjamins recording of Et moi, a second version was recorded, with Dutroncs former bandmate Hadi Kalafate on vocals. Wolfsohn then asked Dutronc if he would be interested in recording his own version, in the song, Dutronc alternates between thinking about people in different places around the world and thinking about himself. The opening of the song is Sept cent millions de chinois/Et moi, et moi, musically, the songs fuzzy, choppy guitar line bears the influence of The Pretty Things and The Kinks. Et moi, et moi, et moi was released as the track on a four-track EP by Vogue in France in August 1966. In the UK and The Netherlands, it was released as a 2-track 7 single, in Germany, Mini, mini, mini was released as an a-side, backed with Et moi, et moi, et moi. For the Italian market, an Italian-language version titled Il Mundo Va Cosi was recorded, a version in Japanese was also attempted but was not released. Dutronc performed Et moi, et moi, et moi on the French television show Le palmarès des chansons and he also toured to promote the single. Et moi, et moi, et moi reached number 2 in the French singles chart in September 1966 and it also gained popularity on the British mod scene where, despite the language barrier, it was appreciated as satirising the folk revival movement. For Portis, Dutronc marks a break with the tradition of French chanson in his creative use of the sounds, rather than just the syntax. Et moi, et moi, et moi is featured in the coffee table book 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, in 2011, it was included in a series of 41 articles on songs that define France, published in Le Figaro. The British band Mungo Jerry reached number 3 in the UK singles chart in 1973 with an English-language reinterpretation of Et moi, et moi and this version is credited to Lanzmann, Dutronc and Joe Strange. It features on Mungo Jerrys 1974 album Long Legged Woman Dressed In Black, the original version of the song was covered in 1988 by the Spanish synth-pop artist Captain B Hardt. A recording of the song appears on the 1989 compilation I Cant Come by punk band the Snivelling Shits
Et moi, et moi, et moi
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"Et moi, et moi, et moi"
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Michel Polnareff
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Michel Polnareff (born 3 July 1944, Nérac is a French singer-songwriter, who was popular in France from the mid-1960s until the early 1990s with his last original album, Kāma-Sūtra. Since then, without any proper new original album, he is critically acclaimed. Michel was born into a family, his mother, Simone Lane, was a Breton dancer and his father. He learned piano by age five and was a good music student. He attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school and he learned the guitar, and after his studies, military service, and a brief time in insurance, he began to play his guitar on the steps of the Sacré Cœur. In 1965, Polnareff won the Disco Revue prize in Paris and this victory let him record a disc at Barclay, but as part of the counterculture he turned down this opportunity. It was Lucien Morisse, then director at Europe 1, who made him sign with AZ and his first disc, La Poupée qui fait non, was an unexpected success. Its new musical style and Polnareffs atypical image, crossed borders, during this period, he played concerts in Brussels for one week sharing the bill with Jeff Beck. Polnareff also played with his image, black glasses, fancy trousers and his song LAmour avec Toi could not be played before 10 pm because it was considered pornographic at the time in France. From 1969 on, Polnareff was hugely successful, tours, music videos and he also became the target of scandalmongers. Tragedy struck in September 1970, when his friend Lucien Morisse committed suicide, after a rest period in the Paris area, and long months in isolation, Polnareff gradually resumed touring. His health and his morale improved, but not his sight, he was forced to protect his eyes with thick, in 1972, a promotional poster showed his naked buttocks. Although the scandal benefitted him commercially, it brought censorship and lawsuits, then, during a world tour, he learned that Bernard Seneau, his manager, had run off with his money, leaving him broke. Unable to pay his debts, and crushed by the death of his mother, he left France for the United States and he was joined by his friend, Annie Fargue who became for many years his manager. Then, in 1975, his song Jesus for Tonight made it onto the American Billboard and he also created the soundtrack for the exploitation rape drama Lipstick, which starred American model Margaux Hemingway and her sister Mariel. But his success in the United States was not as great as in France, plus, Polnareff had left behind his fellow musicians and the musical community. He discovered a passion for computers, a tour in 1975 brought him to Belgium, where thousands of French fans came to see him. His forced exile did not prevent him from composing, and his albums had various success, but it was Bulles in 1981 that proved that France had not forgotten him
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Michel Polnareff at
Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in 2007
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Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan is an American songwriter, singer, painter, and writer. He has been influential in music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when his songs chronicled social unrest, early songs such as Blowin in the Wind and The Times They Are a-Changin became anthems for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement. Leaving behind his initial base in the American folk music revival, his six-minute single Like a Rolling Stone, recorded in 1965, Dylans lyrics incorporate a wide range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture, initially inspired by the performances of Little Richard and the songwriting of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Dylan has amplified and personalized musical genres. Dylan performs with guitar, keyboards, and harmonica, backed by a changing lineup of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, since 1994, Dylan has published seven books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. As a musician, Dylan has sold more than 100 million records and he has also received numerous awards including eleven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award. Dylan has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a citation for his profound impact on popular music and American culture. In May 2012, Dylan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, in 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in St. Marys Hospital on May 24,1941, in Duluth, Minnesota and he has a younger brother, David. Dylans paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa, in the Russian Empire and his maternal grandparents, Ben and Florence Stone, were Lithuanian Jews who arrived in the United States in 1902. Dylans father, Abram Zimmerman – an electric-appliance shop owner – and mother, Beatrice Beatty Stone, were part of a small, close-knit Jewish community. They lived in Duluth until Robert was six, when his father had polio and the returned to his mothers hometown, Hibbing. In his early years he listened to the radio—first to blues and country stations from Shreveport, Louisiana, and later and he formed several bands while attending Hibbing High School. In the Golden Chords, he performed covers of songs by Little Richard and their performance of Danny & the Juniors Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay at their high school talent show was so loud that the principal cut the microphone. In 1959, his high school yearbook carried the caption Robert Zimmerman, the same year, as Elston Gunnn, he performed two dates with Bobby Vee, playing piano and clapping
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Dylan onstage at Azkena Rock Festival,
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, June 26, 2010
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Zimmerman family home in Hibbing, Minnesota
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With
Joan Baez during the civil rights "
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ", August 28, 1963
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Bob Dylan in November 1963
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Ray Davies
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Sir Raymond Douglas Ray Davies, CBE is an English musician. He was the rhythm guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for The Kinks and he has also acted, directed and produced shows for theatre and television. At the dissolution of the Kinks in 1996, Davies embarked on a career as a singer-songwriter. Davies was born at 6 Denmark Terrace, Fortis Green, in Muswell Hill, North London and he is the seventh of eight children born to Fred and Annie Davies, including six older sisters and younger brother Dave Davies. His father is of Welsh ancestry and he went to William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School. Davies was an art student at Hornsey College of Art in London in 1962–1963, gomelsky arranged for Davies to play at his Piccadilly Club with the Dave Hunt Rhythm & Blues Band, and on New Years Eve the Ray Davies Quartet opened for Cyril Stapleton at the Lyceum Ballroom. A few days later he became the permanent guitarist for the Dave Hunt Band, Davies then joined the Hamilton King Band until June 1963, the Kinks spent the summer supporting Rick Wayne on a tour of US airbases. Davies led the Kinks through a period of musical experimentation between 1966 and 1975, with notable achievements and commercial success. The Kinks disbanded in 1996, and Ray Davies has performed solo since then, in 1990, Davies was inducted, with the Kinks, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and, in 2005, into the UK Music Hall of Fame. On 4 January 2004, Davies was shot in the leg while chasing thieves who had snatched the purse of his companion as they walked in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The shooting came less than a week after Davies was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, Davies was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to the arts. Beginning with A Well Respected Man and Where Have All the Good Times Gone and he began to explore the aspirations and frustrations of common working-class people, with particular emphasis on the psychological effects of the British class system. Face to Face, the first Kinks album composed solely of material, was a creative breakthrough. Other songs like Situation Vacant and Shangri-La hinted at the sense of insecurity. Occasionally, he varied the groups sound with more disparate musical influences, such as raga, bossa nova and calypso. Davies is often at his most affecting when he sings of giving up worldly ambition for the rewards of love and domesticity, or when he extols the consolations of friendship. Yet another perennial Ray Davies theme is the championing of individualistic personalities and lifestyles, on his 1967 masterpiece Waterloo Sunset, the singer finds a fleeting sense of contentment in the midst of urban drabness and solitude. Davies mid-period work for the Kinks also showed signs of a social conscience
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Davies performing in Toronto, 1977
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6 Denmark Terrace, birthplace of the Davies brothers
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Ray Davies performing in Toronto, 1977
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Davies at Bluesfest 2008 in Ottawa
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Annecy
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Annecy is the largest city of Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. It lies on the tip of Lake Annecy,35 kilometers south of Geneva. Nicknamed the Pearl of French Alps in Raoul Blanchards monograph describing its location between lake and mountains, the city controls the northern entrance to the lake gorge. Due to the lack of land, its resident population has remained stagnant. However, its area, with 221,000 inhabitants, is on the 5th regional position, just behind the Geneva-Annemasse urban area. Its role increased in 1536, during the Calvinist Reformation of Geneva, st Francis de Sales gave Annecy its role of advanced citadel of the Catholic Counter-Reformation. The annexation of Savoy will link the city to France in 1860, the city experienced an industrial development in the 19th century with silk manufacturing. Some of its legacy remains today within the head offices of NTN-SNR bearings, Salomon, Entremont. The municipal environmental policy managed to keep 40. 3% of green spaces, since 1960 Annecy has been the organiser of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, hosted at the Bonlieu Cultural Centre. It has also been an educational center since the establishment of the University of Savoy in 1973. The Fier forms part of the northwestern border. The mountains around the town of Annecy are Mont Veyrier, Le Semnoz, La Tournette, nearby Annecy le Vieux was a settlement from the time of the Romans. Annecy was the court of the counts of Geneva or Genevois from the 10th century and it passed to the counts of Savoy in 1401. In 1444, it became the capital of the provinces of Genevois, Faucigny. With the advance of Calvinism, Annecy became a center for the Counter-Reformation, Francis of Sales was born in Sales, France in 1567 and served as bishop of Annecy from 1602 to 1622, his relics are preserved in the cathedral. During the French Revolution, the Savoy region was conquered by France, Annecy became attached to the department of Mont Blanc, whose capital was Chambéry. The Catholic diocese was suppressed in 1801, after the Bourbon Restoration in 1815, Annecy was returned to the King of Sardinia and the Catholic diocese restored in 1822. When Savoy was sold to France in 1860, it became the capital of the new department of Haute-Savoie, Annecy was the site of the second round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade talks in 1949
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Panoramic sight of Annecy and
Lake Annecy.
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The Hôtel de Ville (
Town Hall)
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Map of Annecy in 1914, French edition
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The Palais de l'Isle and
Thiou river
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Serge Gainsbourg
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Serge Gainsbourg was a French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor, and director. His lyrical work incorporated a vast amount of word play to hoodwink the listener, often for humorous, provocative. Common types of play in his songs include mondegreen, onomatopoeia, rhyme, spoonerism, dysphemism, paraprosdokian. Through the course of his career, Gainsbourg wrote over 550 songs, since his death, Gainsbourgs music has reached legendary stature in France. He has also gained a following in the English-speaking world. Born in Paris, France, Gainsbourg was the son of Jewish Ukrainian migrants, Joseph Ginsburg and Olga, who fled to Paris after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Joseph Ginsburg was a trained musician whose profession was playing the piano in cabarets and casinos, he taught his children - Gainsbourg. Gainsbourgs childhood was affected by the occupation of France by Germany in World War II. The identifying yellow star Jews were required to wear haunted Gainsbourg, during the occupation, the Jewish Ginsburg family was able to make their way from Paris to Limoges, traveling under false papers. Limoges was in the Zone libre under the administration of the collaborationist Vichy government, after the war, Gainsbourg obtained work teaching music and drawing in a school outside of Paris, in Mesnil-Le-Roi. The school was set up under the auspices of local rabbis, here Gainsbourg heard the accounts of Nazi persecution and genocide, stories that resonated for Gainsbourg far into the future. Before he was 30 years old, Gainsbourg was a disillusioned painter, Gainsbourg changed his first name to Serge, feeling that this was representative of his Russian background and because, as Jane Birkin relates, Lucien reminded him of a hairdressers assistant. He chose Gainsbourg as his last name, in homage to the English painter Thomas Gainsborough and he married Elisabeth Lize Levitsky on 3 November 1951 and divorced in 1957. He married a second time on 7 January 1964, to Françoise-Antoinette Béatrice Pancrazzi and he divorced Béatrice in February 1966. In late 1967 he had a short but ardent love affair with Brigitte Bardot, to whom he dedicated the song, in mid-1968 Gainsbourg fell in love with the younger English singer and actress Jane Birkin, whom he met during the shooting of the film Slogan. Their relationship lasted over a decade, in 1971 they had a daughter, the actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg. Although many sources state that they were married, according to their daughter Charlotte this was not the case. Birkin remembers the beginning of her affair with Gainsbourg, he first took her to a nightclub, then to a transvestite club, Birkin left Gainsbourg when pregnant with her third daughter Lou by the film director Jacques Doillon
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Serge Gainsbourg in 1981
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Gainsbourg, Gall, and del Monaco in a Screenshot of the Eurovision Song Contest, on 20 March 1965
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Tribute graffiti covers the outer wall of Serge Gainsbourg's house on the rue de Verneuil in Paris, looked after by
Charlotte Gainsbourg after her father's death
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Serge Gainsbourg
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That Most Important Thing: Love
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That Most Important Thing, Love is a French film directed by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski. It tells the story of a love relationship between Nadine Chevalier, a B-List actress and Servais Mont, a photographer in the violent. In 1975, Żuławski coadapted and directed this movie, based on the novel by Christopher Frank La Nuit américaine, the success in France was such —it was featuring the very popular actress Romy Schneider and French singer Jacques Dutronc— that it allowed Żuławski to come back to Poland. The film had a total of 1,544,986 admissions in France, Romy Schneider obtained the inaugural César Award for Best Actress for this role and Pedro Almodóvar dedicated his film All About My Mother partially to her in this role. Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies, trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of Richard III and gives Nadine a part. Nadine is torn between Servais, with whom she is falling in love, and her husband Jacques, to whom she has moral obligations
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That Most Important Thing: Love
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Andrzej Zulawski
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Andrzej Żuławski was a Polish film director and writer. He was born in Lwów, Poland, Żuławski often went against mainstream commercialism in his films, and enjoyed success mostly with European art-house audiences. In the late 1950s, he studied cinema in France and his second feature The Devil was banned in Poland, and Żuławski went to France. After the success of That Most Important Thing, Love in 1975, the work on this film was interrupted by the Polish authorities. After that, Żuławski moved to France where he became known for controversial, Żuławski is also known for his work with actresses including Romy Schneider, Isabelle Adjani and Sophie Marceau. His films have received awards at international film festivals. Żuławski had also written novels, for example, Il était Un Verger, Lity Bór, W Oczach Tygrysa. Żuławski was an assistant of Andrzej Wajda, when his second film The Devil was banned in Poland he decided to move to France, where he made That Most Important Thing, Love with Romy Schneider. After returning to Poland he worked for two years on a film which the authorities did not allow him to finish, based on a book by his great-uncle Jerzy Żuławski, since then he has lived and worked mostly in France, making art films. Being a maverick who always defied mainstream commercialism, Żuławski enjoyed success mostly with the European art-house audiences and his wild, imaginative, and controversial pictures have received awards at various international film festivals. He also wrote the novels Il était Un Verger, Lity Bór, W Oczach Tygrysa, in 2006 he was the Head of the Jury at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival. On 17 February 2016, Żuławski died at a hospital in Warsaw from cancer and he had three sons from different relationships. Żuławskis ex-wife was Małgorzata Braunek, who is a Polish film and their elder son Xawery is also a film director. He was in a relationship with the French actress Sophie Marceau for sixteen years and they had a son Vincent together
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Andrzej Żuławski in 2001
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Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague, as a result of such argument, he and like-minded critics started to make their own films. Many of Godards films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema, along with showing knowledge of film history through homages and references, several of his films expressed his political views, he was an avid reader of existential and Marxist philosophy. Since the New Wave, his politics have been less radical and his recent films are about representation and human conflict from a humanist. In a 2002 Sight & Sound poll, Godard ranked third in the critics top-ten directors of all time and he is said to have created one of the largest bodies of critical analysis of any filmmaker since the mid-twentieth century. He and his work have been central to narrative theory and have challenged both commercial narrative cinema norms and film criticisms vocabulary, in 2010, Godard was awarded an Academy Honorary Award, but did not attend the award ceremony. Jean-Luc Godard was born on 3 December 1930 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Odile and Paul Godard and his wealthy parents came from Protestant families of Franco–Swiss descent, and his mother was the daughter of Julien Monod, a founder of the Banque Paribas. She was the great-granddaughter of theologian Adolphe Monod, relatives on his mothers side include also composer Jacques-Louis Monod, naturalist Théodore Monod and pastor Frédéric Monod. Four years after Jean-Lucs birth, his father moved the family to Switzerland, at the outbreak of the Second World War, Godard was in France and returned to Switzerland with difficulty. He spent most of the war in Switzerland, although his family made trips to his grandfathers estate on the French side of Lake Geneva. Godard attended school in Nyon, Switzerland, in 1946, he went to study at the Lycée Buffon in Paris and, through family connections, mixed with members of its cultural elite. He lodged with the writer Jean Schlumberger, having failed his baccalaureate exam in 1948 he returned to Switzerland. He studied in Lausanne and lived with his parents, whose marriage was breaking up and he spent time in Geneva also with a group that included another film fanatic, Roland Tolmatchoff, and the extreme rightist philosopher Jean Parvulesco. His older sister Rachel encouraged him to paint, which he did, after time spent at a boarding school in Thonon to prepare for the retest, which he passed, he returned to Paris in 1949. He registered for a certificate in anthropology at the University of Paris and he got involved with the young group of film critics at the ciné-clubs that started the New Wave. Godard originally held only French citizenship, then in 1953, he became a citizen of Gland, canton of Vaud, Switzerland, in Paris, in the Latin Quarter just prior to 1950, ciné-clubs were gaining prominence. Godard began attending these clubs - the Cinémathèque, the CCQL, Work and Culture ciné Club, at these clubs he met fellow film enthusiasts including Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol, and François Truffaut. Godard was part of a generation for whom cinema took on a special importance and he has said, In the 1950s cinema was as important as bread—but it isnt the case any more
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Jean-Luc Godard at Berkeley, 1968
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Anna Karina, having rejected a role in Breathless, appeared in Godard's next film
Le Petit Soldat, which concerned France's war in Algeria
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Claude Lelouch
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Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch was born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Charlotte and his father was born to an Algerian Jewish family and his mother was a convert to Judaism. His father gave him a camera to him a fresh start after his failure in the baccalaureat. He started his career with reportage – one of the first to film life in the Soviet Union. He also filmed sporting events like the 24 Hours of Le Mans and his first full-length film as director, Le Propre de lhomme, was decried by the critics – Claude Lelouch, remember this name well, because you will not hear it again – Cahiers du cinéma said. La femme spectacle, following prostitutes, women shopping, going for nose-jobs, was censored for its misogynist tendency, a Man and a Woman changed his fortunes and was met with favour even by the Cahiers group. The 1981 musical epic Les Uns et les Autres is widely considered as his masterpiece and his 1976 film, Cétait un rendez-vous, purportedly features a Ferrari 275 GTB being driven at extreme speed through the streets of Paris at dawn. The entire short is shot from the point of view of the car, legend has it that Lelouch was arrested after it was first shown publicly. In a 2006 interview, Lelouch stated that he drove his own Mercedes-Benz 450SEL6.9 in the film and he has collaborated more than two dozen times with composer Francis Lai. They scored a hit with the piece chabadabada for the film A Man and a Woman sung by Nicole Croisille and Pierre Barouh. He is the father of 7 children, in 1993 he was the President of the Jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. 2016, Commander in the Order of the Crown, lelouchs A Man and a Woman won the Palme dOr at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, as well as two Oscars including Best Foreign Language Film. His 1967 film, Vivre pour vivre, was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, in 1971, he won the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Directing for Le Voyou. Media related to Claude Lelouch at Wikimedia Commons Claude Lelouch at the Internet Movie Database
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Claude Lelouch at the
2012 Cannes Film Festival
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Claude Lelouch in 1970.
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Claude Lelouch 1966
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Claude Sautet
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Claude Sautet was a French author and film director. Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Sautet first studied painting and he filmed his first movie, Bonjour Sourire, in 1955. He earned international attention with Les Choses de la Vie, which he wrote and directed and it was shown in competition at the 1970 Cannes Festival, where it was well received. The film also revived the career of Romy Schneider, she acted in several of Sautets later films, in Max et les Ferrailleurs she played a prostitute, while in César et Rosalie she portrayed a married woman who copes with the reappearance of an old flame. Vincent, Paul, François, et les Autres is one of Sautets most acclaimed films, four middle-class men meet in the country every weekend mainly to discuss their lives. The film featured a cast of stars of French cinema, Michel Piccoli, Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu. He achieved even further success with Mado. His 1978 film A Simple Story was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the film featured Schneider again, this time as a dissatisfied working woman in her 40s. She won the César Award for Best Actress for her performance, in the 1980s he made only two films Garçon. A drama starring Yves Montand as a waiter, and the comedy Quelques Jours Avec Moi. Apart from his own directing, he wrote screenplays for other directors. Claude Sautet died of cancer in Paris in 2000 and was buried there in the Cimetière du Montparnasse
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Gravestone of Claude Sautet at Montparnasse Cemetery: Garder le calme devant la dissonance (Keep calm in front of the dissonance)
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Steven Spielberg
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Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE, OMRI is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the pioneers of the New Hollywood era. He is also one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios, in a career spanning more than four decades, Spielbergs films have spanned many themes and genres. His other films include Jurassic Park, A. I, artificial Intelligence, and War of the Worlds. Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindlers List and Saving Private Ryan, three of Spielbergs films—Jaws, E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park—achieved box office records, originated and came to epitomize the blockbuster film. The unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $9 billion worldwide and his personal net worth is estimated to be more than $3 billion. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to an Orthodox Jewish family and his mother, Leah Posner, was a restaurateur and concert pianist, and his father, Arnold Spielberg, was an electrical engineer involved in the development of computers. His paternal grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine who settled in Cincinnati in the first decade of the 1900s, in 1950, his family moved to Haddon Township, New Jersey when his father took a job with RCA. Three years later, the moved to Phoenix, Arizona. Spielberg attended Hebrew school from 1953 to 1957, in classes taught by Rabbi Albert L. Lewis, as a child, Spielberg faced difficulty reconciling being an Orthodox Jew with the perception of him by other children he played with. It isnt something I enjoy admitting, he said, but when I was seven, eight, nine years old, God forgive me. I was embarrassed by the perception of my parents Jewish practices. I was never really ashamed to be Jewish, but I was uneasy at times, Spielberg also said he suffered from acts of anti-Semitic prejudice and bullying, In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. His first home movie was of a wreck involving his toy Lionel trains. Throughout his early teens, and after entering school, Spielberg continued to make amateur 8 mm adventure films. In 1958, he became a Boy Scout and fulfilled a requirement for the merit badge by making a nine-minute 8 mm film entitled The Last Gunfight. Years later, Spielberg recalled to an interviewer, My dads still-camera was broken. He said yes, and I got an idea to do a Western, I made it and got my merit badge
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Spielberg at the
2013 Cannes Film Festival
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Steven Spielberg and
Chandran Rutnam on a location in Sri Lanka during the filming of
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
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Spielberg in March 1990
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Spielberg in 2011, at the Paris premiere of
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.
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List of characters in the Indiana Jones series
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This is a list of characters in the Indiana Jones series. Indiana is a nickname he adopted from childhood, it was the name of his pet dog, wearing a fedora and armed with a revolver and a whip, Indiana is regularly confronted by villains, booby traps, and snakes, of which he is deathly afraid. Actors who have portrayed Indiana at different ages include River Phoenix, Corey Carrier, Sean Patrick Flanery, Satipo is a guide accompanying Indy in the temple in the films opening. He follows behind him through the traps on the way in. When Indy and Satipo reach a pit on the way out, Satipo makes it over with Indys whip, Indy throws over the fertility idol to Satipo, who offered to throw him his whip for it, but he betrays Indy, dropping the whip and fleeing. In his haste, he forgot to mind the wall trap he had witnessed Indy test and is killed, Indiana makes it out. He appears in the video game Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine in the secret level Return to Peru and his name is based in a Peruvian town and county, Satipo in Satipo County in Junín State. Jock Lindsey is an American freelance pilot, Jock cut his teeth as a stunt pilot performing in Midwest airshows and relocated to Venezuela after a rumored flight-related tragedy. He frequently was hired by Jones to fly the archaeologist to remote parts of the world, easygoing and affable, Jock butted heads with Indiana on only one subject, his pet snake Reggie. According to the novelization of Raiders of the Lost Ark written by Campbell Black, Jock is Scottish, the Jock Lindseys Hangar Bar cocktail lounge at Disney Springs says he settled down in central Florida in 1938. Barranca is the other Peruvian guide who turns against Indiana, when Barranca draws a revolver, Indy uses his famous bullwhip and wraps the whip around the gun. The gun is yanked from Barrancas hand and lands in a stream, Barranca then runs away but is later killed with poisonous darts by the Hovitos tribe. In the early script of the film, written by Lawrence Kasdan, when Barranca pulls his gun out on Jones, the archaeologist uses his whip to make Barranca shoot himself, but the script was scrapped. Like Satipo, his name is based on a Peruvian town and county, Barranca, Barranca Ward, Barranca County, Dr. René Emile Belloq is the main antagonist in Raiders of the Lost Ark. He is a French archaeologist who takes credit for Indianas findings by following his exploits, in the films opening, Belloq and the Hovitos tribesmen force Indiana to hand over a fertility idol he has braved numerous booby traps to obtain. Belloq aids the Nazis in finding the Ark of the Covenant, the spirits within the Ark kill Belloq and the Nazis when it is opened, allowing Indiana to take the Ark back to the United States government. At one point in the film, Belloq says to Indy that they are much alike. The novelization of the movie reveals Belloq became Indianas foe at graduate school, another encounter in 1934 is detailed, when Indiana spends months preparing a dig in Rub al Khali, only to arrive and discover Belloq has excavated the region
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Toht (left) and Belloq
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Marcus Brody
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Willie (right) and Short Round (left) inspect Pankot Palace's cuisine
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Mola Ram holding a human heart
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay written by Lawrence Kasdan, from a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. It was produced by Frank Marshall for Lucasfilm Ltd. with Lucas, starring Harrison Ford, it was the first installment in the Indiana Jones film franchise to be released, though it is the second in internal chronological order. It pits Indiana Jones against a group of Nazis who are searching for the Ark of the Covenant, the film originated from Lucas desire to create a modern version of the serials of the 1930s and 1940s. Production was based at Elstree Studios, England, but filming took place in La Rochelle, France, Tunisia, Hawaii. Released on June 12,1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark became the years top-grossing film, in 1999, the film was included in the U. S. Library of Congress National Film Registry as having been deemed culturally, historically, Raiders of the Lost Ark is often ranked as one of the greatest films of all time, both in the action-adventure genre, and in general. The film also ranks #2 on Empires 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time, in 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones braves an ancient booby-trapped temple in Peru and retrieves a golden idol. He is confronted by rival archaeologist René Belloq and the indigenous Hovito people, surrounded and outnumbered, Indy surrenders the idol to Belloq and escapes aboard a waiting floatplane. Jones returns to his position at Marshall College, where he is interviewed by two Army Intelligence agents. They inform him that the Nazis are searching for his old mentor, Abner Ravenwood, the Staff of Ra is the key to finding the Well of Souls, a secret chamber in which the Ark is buried. The agents authorize Jones to recover the Ark to prevent the Nazis from obtaining it and he travels to Nepal and discovers that Abner has died, and the headpiece is in the possession of Ravenwoods daughter Marion. Jones visits Marion at her tavern, where she reveals her feelings toward him from a previous romantic affair. She physically rebuffs his offer to buy the headpiece, and Jones leaves, shortly after, a group of thugs arrive with their Nazi commander, Arnold Toht. Indy and Marion escape with the headpiece, and Marion decides to accompany Indy in his search for the Ark so he can repay his debt to her, the pair travels to Cairo, where they meet up with Indys friend Sallah, a skilled excavator. Sallah informs them that Belloq and the Nazis are digging for the Well of Souls with a replica of the headpiece and they quickly realize the Nazi headpiece is incomplete and that the Nazis are digging in the wrong place. The Nazis kidnap Marion and it appears to Jones that she is killed in an exploding truck, after a confrontation with Belloq in a local bar, Indy and Sallah infiltrate the Nazi dig site and use their staff to correctly locate the Ark. Indy discovers Marion is alive, bound and gagged in a tent, Indy, Sallah, and a small group of diggers unearth the Well of Souls and acquire the Ark. Belloq and Nazi officer Colonel Dietrich arrive, seize the Ark from Jones, Jones and Marion escape to a local airstrip, where Jones has a fistfight with a Nazi mechanic and destroys the flying wing that was to transport the Ark to Berlin
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War and Peace
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War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, which is regarded as a central work of world literature and one of Tolstoys finest literary achievements. The novel chronicles the history of the French invasion of Russia, portions of an earlier version, titled The Year 1805, were serialized in The Russian Messenger from 1865 to 1867. The novel was first published in its entirety in 1869, newsweek in 2009 ranked it first in its Top 100 Books. In 2007, Time magazine ranked War and Peace third in its poll of the 10 greatest books of all time while Anna Karenina was ranked first, Tolstoy said War and Peace is not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle. Large sections, especially the later chapters, are a philosophical rather than narrative. Tolstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call War, instead, he regarded Anna Karenina as his first true novel. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, no single English novel attains the universality of Leo Tolstoys War, War and Peace is perhaps best known as one of the longest novels ever written. Tolstoy began writing War and Peace in the year that he married and settled down at his country estate. The first half of the book was written under the name 1805, during the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. However, Tolstoy developed his own views of history and the role of the individual within it, the first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical Russkiy Vestnik published the first part of this draft under the title 1805, Tolstoy was dissatisfied with this version, although he allowed several parts of it to be published with a different ending in 1867. He heavily rewrote the novel between 1866 and 1869. Tolstoys wife, Sophia Tolstaya, copied as many as seven separate complete manuscripts before Tolstoy considered it again ready for publication, the version that was published in Russkiy Vestnik had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title War and Peace in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were anxious to buy the complete novel, the novel was translated almost immediately after publication into many other languages. It is unknown why Tolstoy changed the name to War and Peace and he may have borrowed the title from the 1861 work of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, La Guerre et la Paix. The title may also be reference to Titus, described as being a master of war and peace in The Twelve Caesars. The completed novel was then called Voyna i mir, the 1805 manuscript was re-edited and annotated in Russia in 1983 and since has been translated into English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Albanian, Korean, and Czech. The existence of so many versions make this one of the best insights into the mental processes of a great novelist
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Tolstoy's notes from the ninth draft of War and Peace, 1864
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Barbet Schroeder
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Barbet Schroeder is an Iranian-born film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working together with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette. Since the 1990s he has directed many big budget Hollywood films in which he often combined family drama with thriller, Schroeder was born in Tehran, Iran, the son of Ursula, a German-born physician, and Jean-William Schroeder, a Swiss geologist. Both he and his family left Iran for France, where he studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, schroeders production company Les Films du Losange, founded by him at age 23, produced some of the best-known films of the French New Wave. His directorial debut, More, about heroin addiction, became a hit in Europe, pink Floyd wrote music for this movie and released the album, More. They also wrote the soundtrack for his 1972 film La Vallée, released as the album Obscured by Clouds. as a hair products salesman in Paris, je taime, today he resides in France and is married to actress Bulle Ogier. Schroeder directed the 12th episode of the 3rd season of the American dramatic television series Mad Men that first aired on 1 November 2009, the episode was entitled The Grown Ups, and was notable for its depiction of the events of the Kennedy assassination. edition-lettmotif. com/produit/barbet-schroeder/
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Etienne Daho
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Étienne Daho is a French singer, songwriter and record producer. He has released a number of synth-driven and rock-surf influenced pop hit singles since 1981 and he sings in a low, whispery voice somewhat akin to Leonard Cohen or Chet Baker and his music established him as a pop cult hero. He cites Serge Gainsbourg, The Velvet Underground, The Beach Boys and he also collaborated with Saint Etienne on the Reserection EP, his album Eden, and his single hit Le Premier Jour. Dahos collaborations and productions both on stage and in the studio with other artists have been extensive and his music has also been remixed, among others, by Air, Fischerspooner, Amon Tobin and William Orbit. Dahos 1996 album Eden displayed an array of electronic-oriented songs that included downtempo ballads, drum and bass-influenced tracks. He duetted with Astrud Gilberto and was accompanied by The Swingle Singers on Timide intimité, backing vocals on several songs were provided by Lyn Byrd of the Comateens, Sarah Cracknell, and Elli Medeiros. Eden was subsequently re-released for the market with great reviews with the song A New World. Daho performed in a sold out I. C. A and he also sang at the Marquee in 1989. One of the tracks included an English-language duet with Vanessa Daou and it includes also Le brasier, La baie and Ouverture. Daho shifted gears once again for his dark and moody 2004 album Réévolution, in 2005, Daho released a live album Sortir Ce Soir, which featured many of his greatest hits performed in concert. In 2007, his new album, LInvitation, which was created with Edith Fambuena, was released to good press reviews, in 2008, a compilation of covers was released, called Tombés pour Daho. The recording artists include Benjamin Biolay, Doriand, Elli Medeiros, Daniel Darc, in the same year, on March 8, Daho received a Victoire de la Musique award in the category Album Pop / Rock of the Year. In 2016 Etienne is invited by John Cale to sing Ill Be Your Mirror at the The Velvet Underground, Daho re-recorded the song Au Commencement in English as A New World for the anglophone market. He released dance mixes by remixers such as William Orbit of some of his 80s singles, such as Épaule Tattoo, Spanish singer Luz Casal recorded a cover version of Duel au soleil in Spanish called Un Nuevo Dia Brillara that became a hit song. Saint Etiennes single Hes on the Phone is heavily based on Dahos Week-end à Rome, Daho also collaborated with the band on several other songs. Daho also recorded a cover of My Girl Has Gone, a 1965 hit originally written, a fan of Pink Floyd, Daho has recorded versions of Arnold Layne and Cirrus Minor. Nouvelle Vague recorded a version of Week-end à Rome with Vanessa Paradis. Rouchon,2006 Aurélie Christa, Du passé compliqué au présent simple, thélès,2007 Benoît Cachin Portraits et entretiens Éd
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I Muvrini
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I Muvrini is a Corsican folk music group, who sing traditional Corsican music in their native Corsican language. The group was formed in the early 1980s by the brothers Jean-François Bernardini and they are named after a species of wild sheep which live in the mountains of Corsica. The Bernardini brothers were introduced to traditional Corsican music at an age by their father, Ghjuliu. They recorded their first single with their father in collaboration with the group Canta u Populu Corsu, Ghjuliu Bernardini died in December 1977 and I Muvrinis first album, I Muvrini. Ti ringrazianu, which was released in 1979, was dedicated to their fathers memory, in 2000, I Muvrini joined up with Sting to record Terre dOru. Throughout their career they have promoted the Corsican language and culture,1979 -. Ti ringrazianu 1980 - Anu da vultà1981 -. È campà quì1984 - Lacrime 1985 -851986 - À lencre rouge 1988 - Pè lamore di tè. I Muvrini official web site Terracorsa, information on Muvrini and Corsica Curagiu, information www. IMuvrini. eu, information on I Muvrini (in English, French, German and Dutch]
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Biopic
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A biographical film, or biopic, is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people. Such films show the life of a person and the central characters real name is used. Because the figures portrayed are actual people, whose actions and characteristics are known to the public, biopic roles are considered some of the most demanding of actors and actresses. Biopic scholars include George F. Custen of the College of Staten Island, Custen, in Bio/Pics, How Hollywood Constructed Public History, regards the genre as having died with the Hollywood studio era, and in particular, Darryl F. Zanuck. On the other hand, Binghams 2010 study Whose Lives Are They Anyway, ellen Cheshires Bio-Pics, a life in pictures examines UK/US films from the 1990s and 2000s. Each chapter reviews key films linked by profession and concludes with further viewing list, christopher Robé has also written on the gender norms that underlie the biopic in his article, Taking Hollywood Back in the 2009 issue of Cinema Journal. The Hurricane is not a documentary but a parable, some biopics purposely stretch the truth. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was based on game show host Chuck Barris widely debunked yet popular memoir of the same name, Kafka incorporated both the life of author Franz Kafka and the surreal aspects of his fiction. The Errol Flynn film They Died with Their Boots On tells the story of Custer but is highly romanticized, casting can be controversial for biographical films. Casting is often a balance between similarity in looks and ability to portray the characteristics of the person, anthony Hopkins felt that he should not have played Richard Nixon in Nixon because of a lack of resemblance between the two. The casting of John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror was objected to because of the American Wayne being cast as the Mongol warlord. Egyptian critics criticized the casting of Louis Gossett, Jr. an African American actor, also, some objected to the casting of Jennifer Lopez in Selena because she is a New York City native of Puerto Rican descent while Selena was Mexican-American. Biographical novel Biography in literature List of biographical films
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Nicole Garcia
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Nicole Garcia is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. Her film Charlie Says was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and her film Going Away was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. She was the President of the Jury for the Caméra dOr section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and her eldest son, Frédéric Bélier-Garcia, is a theatre director and writer. From her relationship with Jean Rochefort, she has a second son, nicole Garcia at the Internet Movie Database
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Claude Chabrol
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Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Chabrols career began with Le Beau Serge, inspired by Hitchcocks Shadow of a Doubt, thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity. This is especially apparent in Les Biches, La Femme infidèle, and Le Boucher – all featuring Stéphane Audran, sometimes characterized as a mainstream New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half-century career. In 1978, he cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in Violette Nozière, on the strength of that effort, the pair went on to others including the successful Madame Bovary and La Cérémonie. Some of his films become almost private jokes, made to amuse himself. Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was born on 24 June 1930 to Yves Chabrol and Madeleine Delarbre in Sardent, France, Chabrol said that he always thought of himself as a country person, and never as a Parisian. Both Chabrols father and grandfather had been pharmacists, and Chabrol was expected to follow in the family business, but as a child, Chabrol was seized by the demon of cinema and ran a film club in a barn in Sardent between the ages of 12 and 14. At this time, he developed his passion for the genre, detective stories. After World War II, Chabrol moved to Paris to study pharmacology and literature at the Sorbonne, Some biographies also state that he briefly studied law and political science at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. After graduating, Chabrol served his military service in the French Medical Corps, serving in Germany. Chabrol has claimed that while in the army he worked as a film projectionist, after he was discharged from the army, he joined his friends as a staff writer for Cahiers du Cinéma, who were challenging then-contemporary French films and championing the concept of Auteur theory. He also wrote for Arts magazine during this period, among Chabrols most famous articles were Little Themes, a study of genre films, and The Evolution of Detective Films. In 1956 he helped finance Jacques Rivettes short film Le coup du berger, unlike all of his future New Wave contemporaries, Chabrol never made short film nor did he work as an assistant on other directors work before making his feature film debut. In 1957 Chabrol and Eric Rohmer co-wrote Hitchcock, a study of the films made by director Alfred Hitchcock through the film The Wrong Man. Chabrol had interviewed Hitchcock with François Truffaut in 1954 on the set of To Catch a Thief, years later, when Chabrol and Truffaut had both become successful directors themselves, Hitchcock told Truffaut that he always thought of them when he saw ice cubes in a glass of whiskey. The most prolific of the major New Wave directors, Chabrol averaged almost one film a year from 1958 until his death. In the mid-sixties it was difficult for Chabrol to obtain financing for films so he made a series of commercial potboilers and spy spoofs, Chabrol had married Agnès Goute in 1952 and in 1957 his wife inherited a large sum of money from relatives. In December of that year Chabrol used the money to make his directorial debut with Le Beau Serge. Chabrol spent three months shooting in his hometown of Sardent using a crew and little known actors
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Marrakech International Film Festival
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The Marrakech International Film Festival is an international film festival founded in 2001 and held annually in Marrakech, Morocco. The 14th edition was held from December 5 to 13,2014, since its inaugural year, the FIFM has been one of the biggest events devoted to Moroccan cinema. It is also the site of the photography of many international productions. The festivals jury gathers important international writers, actors and personalities, the International Film Festival of Marrakech is chaired by Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco. Film festivals in Africa Official website 10e FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM DE MARRAKECH3 -11 Décembre 2010
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Michel Blanc
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Michel Blanc is a French actor and director. He is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs and he is frequently associated with Le Splendid, which he co-founded, along with Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel and Gérard Jugnot. Michel Blanc has also shown his versatility by appearing in serious roles. Michel Blanc at the Internet Movie Database
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Summer Things
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Summer Things is a 2002 French-Italian-British film directed by Michel Blanc based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Connolly. Karin Viard won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Véronique, elizabeth and Bertrand are typical representatives of Parisian society. Behind the facade of a marriage is dissatisfaction and boredom. He is a real estate agent having fun with much younger women or men behind the back of his wife. She suffers under the crushing uneventful life of a housewife and looks forward to a holiday with daughter Emily. Bertrand backs out at the last minute and sends in his place Julie, Elizabeths best friend and he is free for a new love affair in Paris. The neighbors, Véro and Jérôme have very different problems, Jérôme is unemployed and collects gas meters. He hides his feelings of failure from Véro and son Loic, since Véro wants to keep up with the neighbors, both families end up in the same resort. Numerous mistakes, misunderstandings and surprises are inevitable. 4/10, summer Things at the Internet Movie Database
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Alain Corneau
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Alain Corneau was a French film director and writer. Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret and he directed Gérard Depardieu in the screen adaptation of Tous les matins du monde in 1991. Corneau died in Paris on 30 August 2010 from cancer, aged 67 and was interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery
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Johnny Hallyday
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Johnny Hallyday is a French singer and actor. He has been called the French Elvis and he was married for 15 years to popular Bulgarian-French singer Sylvie Vartan and the two were considered a golden couple for 20 years. Hallyday has completed 181 tours, had 18 platinum albums, and has more than 80 million records worldwide. Hallyday remains largely unknown outside of the Francophone world, thus earning the nickname the biggest rock star youve never heard of in English-speaking countries, nevertheless, at an international level he is still considered as the only non-Anglophone rock musician having a large international reputation. He was made Chevalier of the Légion dhonneur in 1997, Hallydays father, Léon Smet, was Belgian, his mother, Huguette Clerc, was French. Johnny was raised by Desta and Lee from a young age. Johnny was always loyal to Lee and secured him a permanent job as a producer and A&R man with his label, Philips Records until Lees retirement. Influenced by Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock n roll revolution, Hallyday became famous in the 1960s for singing rock and his debut single, Laisse les filles was released on the Vogue label in March 1960. His first album, Hello Johnny, was released in 1960, in 1961 his cover of Lets Twist Again sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. It topped almost every European chart, although the track did not appear in the UK Singles Chart and he appeared on the American The Ed Sullivan Show with American singing star Connie Francis in a show that was taped at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris. He also staged many appearances in the Paris Olympia under the management of the late Bruno Coquatrix, for their first concert, The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for Johnny Hallyday in Évreux on 13 October 1966. Black-and-white footage, also from October 1966, exists of Hallyday partying with Hendrix, his manager Chas Chandler, there also is a widely published monochrome photograph of Hallyday walking somewhere in Paris in late May 1966 with Bob Dylan. At the end of the 1960s, Hallyday made a string of albums with Mick Jones and Tommy Brown as musical directors, on Je suis né dans la rue, Hallyday also hired both Peter Frampton and the Small Faces. Amongst their contributions are the songs Amen, Reclamation, and Regarde Pour Moi, often forgotten is Hallydays non-LP single and EP track Que Je Taime from the same sessions. By 1969 alone, his sales of records exceeded twelve million, one of Hallydays later concerts, 100% Johnny, Live à La Tour Eiffel in 2000, attracted an audience of 500,000 and 9.5 million television viewers. In December 2005, Hallyday had his third single in France, Mon Plus Beau Noël. Shortly before announcing his retirement from touring, he released an album, Le Cœur dun homme. The album hit No.1 in both France and French-speaking Belgium and his next album, Ça ne finira jamais, released in 2008, another No.1 on the French album chart, and its lead single, Ça nfinira jamais, also reached No.1
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Paris Bercy
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Paris Bercy is a railway station and terminus in Paris, France, operated by the SNCF. It specialises in auto-trains, which transport travelers vehicles, such as cars, motorbikes, scooters and so on, since July 2002, it has been the seventh largest station in Paris, after a renovation allowed it to accommodate the four daily sleeper trains between Paris and Italy. It is also the Paris terminus for domestic services to Avallon via Laroche-Migennes, Sens. The station acts as a relief to the nearby Paris-Gare de Lyon which was reaching capacity, the overnight trains to Italy travelled to Rome, Florence, or Bologna via Parma, as well as to Venice and Milan. This finished in 2011 and these now depart from Gare de Lyon and it is located in the Bercy area of the 12th arrondissement, close to the Bercy sports arena on the Boulevard de Bercy. It is also close to the Gare de Lyon, access from the Paris Métro is by Line 6 or Line 14 to Bercy Métro station. The modern station occupies the site of a former goods station that was once famous as the main arrival point. These trains run to such as, Avignon, Biarritz, Bordeaux, Briançon, Brive, Fréjus-Saint-Raphaël, Lyon, Marseille, Narbonne, Nice, Toulon. From 23 July 2012, SNCF launched the OUIBus international coach network from Paris-Bercy
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1960s
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The 1960s was a decade that began on 1 January 1960, and ended on 31 December 1969. The term 1960s also refers to an era more often called the Sixties and this cultural decade is more loosely defined than the actual decade, beginning around 1963 with the Kennedy assassination and ending around 1972 with the Watergate scandal. The decade was also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of social taboos especially relating to racism and sexism that occurred during this time and he charts the rise, success, fall/nightmare and explosion in the London scene of the 1960s. Several Western nations such as the United States, United Kingdom, France, by the end of the 1950s, war-ravaged Europe had largely finished reconstruction and began a tremendous economic boom. World War II had brought about a huge leveling of social classes in which the remnants of the old feudal gentry disappeared, the United States, after sluggish economic growth during the 1950s, also experienced a major 60s boom. Real GDP growth averaged 6% a year during the half of the decade. Thus, the worldwide economic trend in the 1960s was one of prosperity, expansion of the middle class. Kennedys assassination in 1963 was a shock, Liberal reforms were finally passed under Lyndon B. Johnson including civil rights for African Americans and healthcare for the elderly and the poor. Despite his large-scale Great Society programs, Johnson was increasingly reviled by the New Left at home, the heavy-handed American role in the Vietnam War outraged student protestors around the globe. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr, in Britain, the Labour Party gained power in 1964. In France, the protests of 1968 led to President Charles de Gaulle temporarily fleeing the country, for some, May 1968 meant the end of traditional collective action and the beginning of a new era to be dominated mainly by the so-called new social movements. Italy formed its first left-of-center government in March 1962 with a coalition of Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, socialists joined the ruling block in December 1963. In Brazil, João Goulart became president after Jânio Quadros resigned, in Africa the 1960s was a period of radical political change as 32 countries gained independence from their European colonial rulers. The Cold War, The Vietnam War 1961 – Substantial American advisory forces first arrive in Vietnam,1962 – By mid-1962, the number of U. S. military advisers in South Vietnam had risen from 900 to 12,000. The resolution gave U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a declaration of war by Congress. The Johnson administration subsequently cited the resolution as legal authority for its rapid escalation of U. S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. 1966 – After 1966 with the draft in more than 500,000 troops were sent to Vietnam by the Johnson administration. Portuguese Colonial War – the war was fought between Portugals military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugals African colonies and it was a decisive ideological struggle and armed conflict of the cold war in African and European scenarios
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Le Nouvel Observateur
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L’Obs ) is a weekly French news magazine. Based in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, it is the most prominent French general information magazine in terms of audience and its current editor is Matthieu Croissandeau. The magazine was established in 1950 as France-Observateur, the name Le Nouvel Observateur was adopted in 1964. The 1964 incarnation of the magazine was founded by Jean Daniel and Claude Perdriel. Since then Le Nouvel Observateur has been published by Groupe Nouvel Observateur on a basis and has covered political, business. It features extensive coverage of European, Middle Eastern and African political, commercial and cultural issues and its strongest areas are political and literary matters and it is noted for its in-depth treatment of the main issues of the day. It has been described as the French intellectuals parish magazine, or more pejoratively as the organ of Frances gauche caviar. The magazines internet site was launched by Patrick Fiole and Christina Sourieau in 1999, a tradition ever concerned with combining respect for freedom and the quest for social justice. André Gorz and other journalists who had left LExpress helped to found the publication, the owners of Le Monde purchased a 65% stake in the magazine in 2014. On 12 March 2014 the two co-directors of the group, Laurent Joffrin and Nathalie Collin, resigned because the Nouvel Observateur was being sold to Le Monde. Alongside its editorial activities, the Nouvel Observateur group bought the news site Rue89 in December 2011. On 23 October 2014, the magazine was renamed L’Obs and its layout was changed to include reports on investigations, stories. TéleObs is a supplement containing articles about TV and cinema and it was published every two weeks until October 2014, when it began to be published weekly. Challenges is a business magazine published by Le Nouvel Observateur since 1982. Released every two weeks, it contains information on companies and their managers at the CEO level all around the world, Le Nouvel Observateur formerly published ParisObs, a general information supplement with a focus on Paris and the Île-de-France region, also published weekly. The circulation of Le Nouvel Observateur was 385,000 copies in 1981,340,000 copies in 1987 and 370,000 copies in 1988, in 2001-2002, the magazine had a circulation of 471,000 copies. In 2010, its circulation was 502,108 copies, making it the best-selling European news magazine, the magazine had a circulation of 526,732 copies during the first half of 2013 and 460,780 copies in 2014. LExpress - center-right news magazine Le Point - middle-of-the-road news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur website Mobile version The Nouvel Observateurs 2004 Charter
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France 2
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France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5, France Télévisions also participates in ARTE, EuroNews, several cable/satellite thematic channels, and Mediamétrie. Since 03,20 CET on 7 April 2008, all France 2 programming has been broadcast in 16,9 widescreen format over the analog SECAM air frequencies and the French DVB-T multiplex frequencies. An HD version of France 2 has been broadcasting via DVB-S Service CanalSat since 1 July 2008, originally under the ownership of the RTF, the channel went on the air for the first time on 1 January 1964 as RTF Télévision 2. Within a year, ORTF was rebranded as La Deuxième Chaîne, originally, the network was broadcast on 625-line transmitters only in preparation for the discontinuation of 819-line black & white transmissions and the introduction of color. The switch to color occurred at 14,15 CET on 1 October 1967, La Deuxième Chaîne became the first color television channel in France although TF1 would not commence color broadcasting on 625-lines until 20 December 1975. Such technology later allowed the network to air programming in NICAM stereo, the present channel is the direct successor of Antenne 2, established under a 1974 law that mandated the breakup of ORTF into seven distinct organisations. Antenne 2 and the corporations were constituted as limited companies with the state controlling 100% of their capital. Although the three channels were set up as competitors vying for advertisers, they retained a monopoly over television broadcasting in France that was not repealed until 1981. Privately owned channels such as Canal+ and La Cinq soon became major competitors to the channels after the state monopoly was lifted. TF1 was privatised in 1987, radically affecting the balance of the French television market, the remaining state-owned channels came under severe pressure from their private competitors and lost 30% of their market share between 1987 and 1989. In an effort to save them, a single director-general was appointed to manage both Antenne 2 and FR3 and the two merged to form the France Télévisions group. They were renamed in 1992 as France 2 and France 3 respectively, the focus on ratings led to strong rivalry with TF1, for instance prompting the two channels to broadcast popular shows and news programmes in the same timeslots. TF1 and France 2 compete for the demographics, dramas, game shows. Since 11 December 2006, France 2 was again made available across Italy on Digital terrestrial television until 7 June 2007, France 2 is now only available in Aosta Valley due to Italian self-government laws, and in the border zones because of natural spillover. In March 1986, an Antenne 2 news team was kidnapped in Beirut while reporting on the Lebanese Civil War, Philippe Rochot, Georges Hansen, Aurel Cornéa and Jean-Louis Normandin were four of many Western hostages held by terrorists during the conflict. Within a year, most of the team had been released and returned to France. On 30 September 2000 France 2 aired the footage of the shooting of Muhammad al-Durrah in the Gaza Strip
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France 2 HD logo used from 2008-2012
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Jacques Brel
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He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson. In French-speaking countries, Brel was also an actor, appearing in ten films. He also directed two films, one of which, Le Far West, was nominated for the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973, having sold over 25 million records worldwide, Brel is the third best-selling Belgian recording artist of all time. Brel married Thérèse Miche Michielsen in 1950 and the couple had three children and he also had a romantic relationship with actress and dancer Maddly Bamy from 1972 until his death in 1978. Jacques Romain Georges Brel was born on 8 April 1929 in Schaerbeek, Brussels, to Élisabeth Lisette and he came from a family of Flemish descent, who had adopted the French language, part of his family originated in Zandvoorde, near Ypres. His father worked for Cominex, a firm, and later became co-director of a company that manufactured cardboard. Jacques and his older brother Pierre grew up in an austere household, in Brussels, the family lived at 138 Avenue du Diamant in Schaerbeek, then moved to 26 Boulevard Belgica–Belgicalaan in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, and finally settled at 7 Rue Jacques-Manne in Anderlecht. Jacques was close to his mother, fascinated by her generosity and sense of humour, in September 1941, his parents enrolled Jacques at the Institut Saint-Louis at rue du Marais near the Botanical Garden of Brussels. Although he did poorly in many subjects, he did well in history and French and he helped set up the schools drama club, taking on his first stage roles with great enthusiasm. He wrote short stories, poems, and essays, in 1944, at the age of 15, Jacques began playing the guitar. The following year he formed his own group with friends. In the spring of 1947, during his year at Saint-Louis. Published pseudonymously, the story is about a man on his death bed who encourages his grandson to run away while the rest of the family makes arrangements for his funeral. Despite his growing talent for writing, Jacques was never a good student, with an academic career not in his future, the 18-year-old Jacques went to work at his fathers cardboard factory in August 1947. His job at Vanneste and Brel was predictable and uninspiring—a routine that involved fixing prices, apart from joining the company football team, he showed little interest in the companys social activities and events. Perhaps to offset the boredom of his office routine, he joined a local Catholic youth organisation La Franche Cordée. Dedicated to philanthropic work, the group organised religious retreats, fundraising events, Jacques supported these activities with great enthusiasm and believed strongly in FCs mission. His parents were pleased with their sons dedication, and provided him with the company van and family car to support his FC activities
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Jacques Brel, 1963
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Matthieu Chedid
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Matthieu Chedid, better known by his stage name ‑M-, is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player. Matthieu Chedid is the son of French singer Louis Chedid, and his sister is the music video and concert director Émilie Chedid. Chedid, a talented multi-instrumentalist, took an interest in early on. In 1978, at the age of six, Chedid lent his voice to the chorus of his fathers hit song Tas beau pas être beau alongside older sister and he has collaborated with a number of artists, both on stage and in the recording studio. Early into his career, Chedid was the opening act for Texas concerts. He has recorded with NTM, Sinclair, Billy Ze Kick, and more recently with Brigitte Fontaine, Sean Lennon, Vanessa Paradis, Chedid performs and records under the stage name ‑M-. Chedid created ‑M- as means of overcoming his shyness on stage, the pseudonym comes from Chedids first initial but also refers to the similar-sounding French word aime, meaning love. The character ‑M- is a superhero, noted for having a playful nature, in 1997, -M- released his first solo album Le Baptême. During this time, he played solo or with the cellist Vincent Ségal. The album received positive critical reception, but public recognition only came a few months later. In 1999, -M- published his album, Je dis aime a title that puns aime with M. A few months later, the album was 11th on the French Charts, with more than 500,000 albums sold, live, -M- played with Cyril Atef, Vincent Segal and DJ Shalom for the samples on some songs. He still works with his sister Emilie Chedid for the realisation of the clips and his live performance largely contributed to his success, playing on his character of -M- to transform every concert into a show. He won his first Victoire de la Musique awards for Male Artist of the Year, the song, with lyrics by Chomet and music by Benoit Charest, was nominated for a 2003 Academy Award. The music video for Belleville Rendez-vous uses both a live-action depiction of ‑M- and an animated depiction incorporated into footage from the film, in autumn 2003, he released his 3rd album Qui de nous deux with the singles Qui de nous deux, La bonne étoile, Mon ego. Softer, this saw the birth of his first daughter, Billie. A pink guitar can be seen in the video for Qui de nous deux, in 2007, he worked once again with Vanessa Paradis on her album Divinidylle, released in September 2007. Rumors circulated before the release of his 2009 studio album, Mister Mystère, the album, however, was released under the name ‑M- but included photographs of the singer without the wild costumes and hair associated with the ‑M- character
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Matthieu Chedid during a concert with
Vanessa Paradis at
Châteauroux in November 2007
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Chedid performing in 2014
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