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Adémaï In The Middle Ages
''Adémaï in the Middle Ages'' (French: ''Adémaï au Moyen-Âge'') is a 1935 French historical comedy film directed by Jean de Marguenat and starring Noël-Noël, Michel Simon and Suzy Vernon. It was shot at the Victorine Studios in Nice. The film's sets were designed by the art director Marcel Magniez. It was the second feature film for Adémaï, a character Noël-Noël had developed on the music hall stage, following the previous year's hit ''Skylark''. The Corsican singer and future film star Tino Rossi appears as a troubadour. Synopsis In 1429, shortly after the Siege of Orléans during the Hundred Years' War between France and England, the peasant Adémaï's new bride Tiennette is captured by an English lord who coverts her for himself. She is imprisoned in a castle, then rescued by a French force in which two men also desire her and fight each other in a tournament. Adéma meanwhile keeps getting caught up in the fighting between the English and French. When he sees Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean De Marguenat
Jean de Marguenat (2 May 1893 – 16 April 1956) was a French screenwriter and film director. He directed nineteen films including the 1937 British musical ''The Street Singer (1937 film), The Street Singer'' (1937). Earlier in his life de Marguenat was an amateur auto racer, attempting a AAA Contest Board, AAA American open-wheel car racing, Championship car race at the Atlantic City Speedway in New Jersey 1926 AAA Championship Car season, in 1926. He failed to qualify. Selected filmography * ''Miche (film), Miche'' (1932) * ''The Red Robe'' (1933) * ''Prince Jean (1934 film), Prince Jean'' (1934) * ''Adémaï in the Middle Ages'' (1935) * ''The Street Singer (1937 film), The Street Singer'' (1937) * ''Happy Days (1941 film), Happy Days'' (1941) * ''Behold Beatrice'' (1944) References Bibliography * De Lafayette, Maximillien. '' Hollywood Femmes Fatales and Ladies of Film Noir, Volume 1''. External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marguenat, Jean de 1893 births 1956 deaths Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skylark (1934 Film)
''Skylark'' (French: ''Adémaï aviateur'') is a 1934 French comedy film directed by Jean Tarride and starring Noël-Noël, Fernandel and Junie Astor. The character of Adémaï had previously appeared in short films but this was his first feature-length appearance.Sadoul p.69 He subsequently appeared in the historical comedy ''Adémaï in the Middle Ages'' in 1935. Synopsis Adémaï has joined the French Air Force, but during some leave he finds himself unwillingly engaged to a farmer's daughter. To try and escape this he has himself transferred to pilot training. However Méchelet, the man he mistakenly believes is his training instructor, in fact knows no more about flying than he does. Fearing to try and land the two keep flying, breaking a world record in the process. Cast * Noël-Noël as Adémaï * Fernandel as Méchelet * Junie Astor as Marguerite * Sylvia Bataille as Marie-Jeanne * Paul Azaïs as L'adjudant * Paul Asselin as Le commandant * André Nicolle a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Maillot
Maurice Maillot (18 September 1906 – 8 February 1968) was a French film and theater actor. He was born in Rethel, Ardennes, and died in Paris. Selected filmography * '' The Indictment'' (1931) * '' The Wandering Beast'' (1932) * '' Rouletabille the Aviator'' (1932) *'' Odette'' (1934) * '' Merchant of Love'' (1935) * ''Adémaï in the Middle Ages'' (1935) *'' Whirlpool of Desire'' (1935) * '' The Happy Road'' (1936) * '' Champions of France'' (1938) * '' Camp Thirteen'' (1940) * ''Threats A threat is a communication of intent to inflict harm or loss on another person. Intimidation is a tactic used between conflicting parties to make the other timid or psychologically insecure for coercion or control. The act of intimidation fo ...'' (1940) * '' Dorothy Looks for Love'' (1945) References External links * 1906 births 1968 deaths People from Ardennes (department) Male actors from Grand Est French male film actors 20th-century French male actors {{France-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Grétillat
Jacques Marie Gaëtan Grétillat (26 August 1885 – 19 December 1950) was a French actor and film director. Grétillat was born in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), and died in Paris. Partial filmography * ''Hamlet'' (1908, Short) - Hamlet * '' Le traquenard'' (1915) * ''Les soeurs ennemies'' (1915) * '' The Corsican Brothers'' (1917) * ''La proie'' (1917) - Marc de Ricardo * '' Culprit'' (1917) - Prosper Aubry * ''48, avenue de l'Opéra'' (1917) - Jean Daumas * ''Géo, le mystérieux'' (1917) - Géo * ''Quarante H.P.'' (1919) - Comte de Clain * ''L'effroyable doute'' (1919) * ''La double existence du docteur Morart'' (1920) - Docteur Morart * ''Déchéance'' (1920) * ''Le père Goriot'' (1921) - Vautrin * ''Nero'' (1922) - Nero * ''La fille des chiffonniers'' (1922) - Dartès * '' David Golder'' (1931) - Marcus, Golders früherer Sozius * ''Pas sur la bouche'' (1931) - Le mari de Gilberte * '' Danton'' (1932) - Danton * '' The Red Robe'' (1934) - Mouzon * '' The Bread Peddler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Pierry
Marguerite Pierry (26 December 1887, Paris – 20 January 1963, Paris) was a French actress. Selected filmography * ''On purge bébé'' (1931) * '' Adémaï in the Middle Ages'' (1935) * '' Paris Camargue'' (1935) * '' The Two Boys'' (1936) * ''The Citadel of Silence'' (1937) * '' Southern Mail'' (1937) * '' Conflict'' (1938) * ''That's Sport'' (1938) * ''Monsieur Breloque Has Disappeared'' (1938) * ''Monsieur Brotonneau'' (1939) * '' Whirlwind of Paris'' (1939) * '' The Mayor's Dilemma'' (1939) * '' Miquette'' (1940) * '' Paris-New York'' (1940) * ''False Alarm'' (1940) * '' Facing Destiny'' (1940) * ''Miss Bonaparte'' (1942) * '' The Lost Woman'' (1942) * '' The Phantom Baron'' (1943) * '' My Last Mistress'' (1943) * '' Box of Dreams'' (1945) * '' The Husbands of Leontine'' (1947) * '' Last Chance Castle'' (1947) * '' Counter Investigation'' (1947) * ''Convicted'' (1948) * '' The Ladies in the Green Hats'' (1949) * '' Two Doves'' (1949) * '' Dr. Knock'' (1951) * ''Adele's Gift ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Of Arc
Joan of Arc ( ; ; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the Coronation of the French monarch, coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. Claiming to be acting under divine guidance, she became a military leader who transcended gender roles and gained recognition as a savior of France. Joan was born to a propertied peasant family at Domrémy-la-Pucelle, Domrémy in northeast France. In 1428, she requested to be taken to Charles VII, later testifying that she was guided by visions from the archangel Michael, Margaret the Virgin, Saint Margaret, and Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Catherine to help him save France from English domination. Convinced of her devotion and purity, Charles sent Joan, who was about seventeen years old, to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief army. She arrived at the city in April 1429, wielding her banner a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tournament (medieval)
A tournament, or tourney (from Old French ''torneiement'', ''tornei''), was a mock fight that was common in the Middle Ages">Mock_combat.html" ;"title="chivalry">chivalrous competition or Mock combat">mock fight that was common in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (12th to 16th centuries), and is a type of hastilude. Tournaments included Melee, mêlée, hand-to-hand combat, contests of strength or History of archery, accuracy, and sometimes Jousting, jousts. Some considered the tournaments to be frivolous pursuits of celebrity, even a potential threat to public order. But the shows were popular and often put on in honor of coronations, marriages, or births; to celebrate recent conquests or peace treatises; or to welcome ambassadors, lords, or others considered to be of great importance. Other times tournaments were held for no particular reason at all, simply for entertainment. Certain tournaments are depicted throughout the ''Codex Manesse''. Etymology The word ''tournamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord
Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power (social and political), power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the Peerage of the United Kingdom, peerage in the United Kingdom, or are entitled to courtesy titles. The collective "Lords" can refer to a group or body of Peerages in the United Kingdom, peers. Etymology According to the ''Oxford Dictionary of English'', the etymology of the word can be traced back to the Old English language, Old English word ''hlāford'' which originated from ''hlāfweard'' meaning "loaf-ward" or "bread-keeper", reflecting the Germanic tribes, Germanic tribal custom of a Germanic chieftain, chieftain providing food for his followers. The appellation "lord" is primarily applied to men, while for women the appellation "lady" is used. This is no longer universal: the Lord of Mann, a title previously held by Elizabeth II, the Queen o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peasant
A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: non-free slaves, semi-free serfs, and free tenants. Peasants might hold title to land outright (fee simple), or by any of several forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold. In some contexts, "peasant" has a pejorative meaning, even when referring to farm laborers. As early as in 13th-century Germany, the concept of "peasant" could imply "rustic" as well as "robber", as the English term villain/villein. In 21st-century English, the word "peasant" can mean "an ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person". The word rose to renewed popularity in the 1940s–1960s as a collective term, often referring to rural populations of developing countries in general, as the "semantic successor to 'native', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of France
The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the Middle Ages, medieval and Early modern France, early modern period. It was one of the most powerful states in Europe from the High Middle Ages to 1848 during its dissolution. It was also an early French colonial empire, colonial power, with colonies in Asia and Africa, and the largest being New France in North America geographically centred around the Great Lakes. The Kingdom of France was descended directly from the West Francia, western Frankish realm of the Carolingian Empire, which was ceded to Charles the Bald with the Treaty of Verdun (843). A branch of the Carolingian dynasty continued to rule until 987, when Hugh Capet was elected king and founded the Capetian dynasty. The territory remained known as ''Francia'' and its ruler as ('king of the Franks') well into the High Middle Ages. The first king calling himself ('King of France') was Philip II of Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War (; 1337–1453) was a conflict between the kingdoms of Kingdom of England, England and Kingdom of France, France and a civil war in France during the Late Middle Ages. It emerged from feudal disputes over the Duchy of Aquitaine and was triggered by English claims to the French throne, a claim to the French throne made by Edward III of England. The war grew into a broader military, economic, and political struggle involving factions from across Western Europe, fuelled by emerging nationalism on both sides. The periodisation of the war typically charts it as taking place over 116 years. However, it was an intermittent conflict which was frequently interrupted by external factors, such as the Black Death, and several years of truces. The Hundred Years' War was a significant conflict in the Middle Ages. During the war, five generations of kings from two rival Dynasty, dynasties fought for the throne of France, then the wealthiest and most populous kingd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siege Of Orléans
The siege of Orléans (12 October 1428 – 8 May 1429) marked a turning point of the Hundred Years' War between France and England. The siege took place at the pinnacle of English power during the later stages of the war, but was repulsed by French forces inspired by the arrival of Joan of Arc. The French would then regain the initiative in the conflict and began to recapture territories previously occupied by the English. The city held strategic and symbolic significance to both sides of the conflict. The consensus among contemporaries was that the English regent, John of Lancaster, would have succeeded in realising his brother the English king Henry V's dream of conquering all of France if Orléans fell. For half a year the English and their French allies appeared to be on the verge of capturing the city, but the siege collapsed nine days after Joan of Arc arrived. Background Hundred Years' War The siege of Orléans occurred during the Hundred Years' War, an inheritance d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
