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1948 In France
Events from the year 1948 in France. Incumbents *President: Vincent Auriol *President of the Council of Ministers: ** until 24 July: Robert Schuman ** 24 July-2 September: André Marie ** 2 September-11 September: Robert Schuman ** starting 11 September: Henri Queuille Events *17 March – Treaty of Brussels, is signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, aimed mainly at defending against possible German rearmament. *5 September – Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France. *7 October – Citroën 2CV economy car introduced at the Paris Motor Show. Sport *30 June – Tour de France begins. *25 July – Tour de France ends, won by Gino Bartali of Italy. Births *17 February – Philippe Khorsand, actor (died 2008) *10 March – Jean-Pierre Adams, international soccer player (died 2021) *11 March – Dominique Sanda, actress *9 April – Bernard-Marie Koltès, playwright and director (died 1989) *20 June – Véronique de Montc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) go into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – British rule in Burma, Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the 'Post-independence Burma (1948–1962), Union of Burma', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 – In the United States: ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the ''Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Reports, Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Khorsand
Philippe Khorsand (February 17, 1948 – January 29, 2008) was a French actor. His father was Iranian and his mother was French. He first appeared in a number of small roles in the 1970s. One of his most memorable roles as husband and father in ''Tableau d'honneur'' (1992). Khorsand died of a hemorrhage at the age of 59 in Paris. Partial filmography * ''Laisse aller... c'est une valse'' (1971) - Homme de Varèse * '' Hippopotamours'' (1976) - Un danseur guinguette (uncredited) * ''Lâche-moi les valseuses!...'' (1977) - Philippe * ''Le mors aux dents'' (1979) - Flipper * ''Rien ne va plus'' (1979) - Le conducteur au péage / Jacky / M. Alexandre * '' Inspector Blunder'' (1980) - Le satyre Alphonse Rouchard * ''T'empêches tout le monde de dormir'' (1982) - Michel * '' Édith et Marcel'' (1983) - Jo Longman * ''Zig Zag Story'' (1983) - Police inspector * ''Attention une femme peut en cacher une autre!'' (1983) - Raphaël * '' Les Compères'' (1983) - Milan * '' P'tit Con'' (1984) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Chabot
Jean-Baptiste Chabot (16 February 1860 – 7 January 1948) was a Roman Catholic secular priest and the leading French Syriac scholar in the first half of the twentieth century. Life Born into a viticultural family at Vouvray-sur-Loire, Chabot trained at the seminary in Tours where he was ordained. Appointed as assistant priest to La Chapelle-sur-Loire in 1885, he served for two years before becoming a student of Thomas Joseph Lamy (1827–1907) at Louvain Catholic University in Belgium. His thesis published in Latin in 1892 was devoted to Isaac of Nineveh and included three unpublished homilies from British Museum manuscripts which Chabot translated. He then studied at the School for Higher Studies at the Sorbonne, and under Rubens Duval whose collaborator he became. In 1893 Chabot published catalogues of Syriac manuscripts preserved at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and of Syriac manuscripts acquired by the French Bibliothèque Nationale since 1874 (i.e. sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (, , ; born 27 December 1948) is a French actor. An icon of French cinema, considered a world star in the same way as Alain Delon or Brigitte Bardot, he has completed over 250 films since 1967, most of which as a lead actor. He is also a film producer, businessman, vineyard owner, and occasional director. Depardieu has worked with over 150 film directors including François Truffaut, Bertrand Blier, Maurice Pialat, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Ridley Scott, Jean-Luc Godard, and Bernardo Bertolucci. He is the second highest-grossing actor in the history of French cinema behind Louis de Funès. His body of work also includes many television productions, several records and, as of 2025, 19 stage plays and 9 books. He is known for having portrayed numerous leading historical and fictitious figures including Cyrano de Bergerac, Georges Danton, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Rodin, Christopher Columbus, Jean Valjean, Edmond Dantès, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Jade
Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade (; 8 October 1948 – 1 December 2006), was a French actress. She starred as Antoine Doinel#Christine Darbon, Christine in François Truffaut's three films ''Stolen Kisses'' (1968), ''Bed and Board (1970 film), Bed and Board'' (1970) and ''Love on the Run (1979 film), Love on the Run'' (1979). Jade acted in theatre, film and television. Her film work outside France included the Soviet Union, the United States (Alfred Hitchcock's ''Topaz (1969 film), Topaz''), Italy, Belgium, Germany and Japan. She was most famous on television as the heroine of the mysterious adventure series ''The Island of Thirty Coffins'' (1979). She was also the leading actress in the first French daily soap ''Tide of Life, Cap des Pins'' (1998-2000). Her last role was playing Célimène in the 2006 film ''Célimène et le cardinal''. Early career The daughter of university professors, Jade spent three years at Dijon's Conservatory of Dramatic Art. In 1964 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Louis Pichon
Jean-Louis Pichon (; 18 September 1948 – ) was a French stage director, opera manager and author. He was manager of the from 1983 to 2008, dedicated to the French repertoire, where he co-founded and directed the Massenet Festival around the works of Jules Massenet who was born there. Some performances were recorded, and shared with other French theatres and abroad. Pinchon also directed operas at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, the Municipal Theatre of Santiago in Chile, and other theatres in France and abroad. Life and career Pichon was born in Saint-Étienne on 18 September 1948. He studied classics, writing a thesis devoted to Racine's work. He then turned to theatre as both an actor and a director. He first directed the world premiere of Gabriel Marcel's ''Monde Cassé'' at the Alliance Française Theatre in 1971, playing the role of Antonnof. He performed in the great classics (''Britannicus'', '' Andromaque'', '' Le Cid'', '' Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard'', ''Hamlet' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Jean-Pierre Raffarin (; born 3 August 1948) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005 under President Jacques Chirac. He resigned after France's rejection of the referendum on the European Union draft constitution. However, after Raffarin resigned, he said that his decision was not based on the outcome of the vote. Opinion polls following his resignation suggested that Raffarin was one of France's least popular prime ministers since the Fifth Republic was established in 1958. However, according to the book ''France: 1815–2003'', written by Martin Evans and Emmanuel Godin, Raffarin was "a remarkably popular Prime Minister" despite his ability "to state the obvious and to make empty statements". He was also Vice President of the Senate from 2011 to 2014. Early life Born 3 August 1948, Raffarin grew up in Poitiers, the son of a prominent national figure: his father Jean Raffarin was vice-minister of Agriculture in the gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Reno
Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez (born 30 July 1948), commonly known as Jean Reno (), is a French-Spanish actor. He established himself as a Leading actor, leading man of French cinema through his collaborations with director Luc Besson, and has worked in numerous international productions. He is a three-time César Awards, César Award nominee - César Award for Best Actor, Best Actor for ''Les Visiteurs'' (1993) and ''Léon: The Professional'' (1994), and César Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actor for ''The Big Blue'' (1988). Reno's other notable films include ''Le Dernier Combat'' (1983), ''La Femme Nikita (film), La Femme Nikita'' (1990), ''Mission: Impossible (film), Mission: Impossible'' (1996), ''Ronin (film), Ronin'' (1998), ''Godzilla (1998 film), Godzilla'' (1998), ''Crimson Rivers'' (2000), ''Wasabi (film), Wasabi'' (2001), ''The Pink Panther (2006 film), The Pink Panther'' (2006), ''The Da Vinci Code (film), The Da Vinci Code'' (2006), ''Flushed Away' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Drubay
Bernard Drubay (born 19 July 1948) is a French sailor who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and officially branded as Munich 1972 (; ), were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. It was the .... References External links * 1948 births Living people French male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for France Sailors at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Soling 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Véronique De Montchalin
Véronique Louise Léonie de Montchalin (née Legué; born 20 June 1948) is a French politician who briefly served as a Member of Parliament. References See also * List of deputies of the 16th National Assembly of France This is a list of Deputy (France), deputies of the 16th legislature of the French Fifth Republic, 16th National Assembly (France), National Assembly of France under the French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic. They were elected in the 2022 French le ... {{DEFAULTSORT:de Montchalin, Véronique Living people 1948 births People from Chartres Renaissance (French political party) politicians Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic 21st-century French women politicians Deputies of Eure-et-Loir Women members of the National Assembly (France) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Director
A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. The director's function is to ensure the quality and completeness of theatre production and to lead the members of the creative team into realizing their artistic vision for it. The director thereby collaborates with a team of creative individuals and other staff to coordinate research and work on all the aspects of the production which includes the Technical and the Performance aspects. The technical aspects include: stagecraft, costume design, theatrical properties (props), lighting design, set design, and sound design for the production. The performance aspects include: acting, dance, orchestra, chants, and stage combat. If the production is a new piece of writing or a (new) translation of a play, the director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Reading (process), reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwright" and is the first person in English literature to refer to playwrights as separate from Poet, poets. The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are the Ancient Greeks. William Shakespeare is amongst the most famous playwrights in literature, both in England and across the world. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English , from Old English ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word ''wikt:wwright'' is an archaic English term for a Artisan, craftsperson or builder (as in a wheelwright or Wagon, cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form — a play. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
