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Chouettes
Chouette is a French word meaning "owl", specifically owls without visible ear tufts. Owls with visible ear tufts are known as "Hibou". Chouette may also mean "nice" in French. ; Species of owl * Chouette D'Ussher, the Rufous fishing owl (''Scotopelia ussheri'') ; Uses relating to owls * La chouette, a character portraying an owl in the opera ''L'enfant et les sortilèges'' by French composer Maurice Ravel * "La chouette", a song by French composer Jeanne Herscher-Clément * ''La chouette'', a series of short CGI-animated episodes for children's television; see ''The Owl'' (TV series) * ''La chouette aveugle'', the original French name of ''The Blind Owl'' (film) of 1987 * La chouette d'or, a French treasure hunt created by Régis Hauser in 1993; see the Golden Owl quest * "La chouette hulotte" (the tawny owl), a piece for solo piano in ''Catalogue d'oiseaux'' (195658) by French composer Olivier Messiaen * ''Le cri de la chouette'', an autobiographical novel of 1972 by Hervé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufous Fishing Owl
The rufous fishing owl (''Scotopelia ussheri''), rufous-backed fishing-owl or Ussher's fishing owl, is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is endemic to west Africa, where it is a highly localised resident along forest rivers. Taxonomy English naturalist Richard Bowdler Sharpe described the rufous fishing owl in 1871. It is one of three species in the genus ''Scotopelia''. It is named after Herbert Taylor Ussher who provided the type specimen Sharpe used in his description. Description The rufous fishing owl is a medium-sized owl, measuring in length. This is substantially smaller than the Pel's fishing owl, which also occurs in the region. It lacks ear tufts and has an indistinct, pale cinnamon facial disc. The underparts are pale and are finely streaked due to the dark shafts of the majority of the feathers. The flanks may have a more rufous patch. The adults have barred flight feathers, with the upperparts of the wings (mantle, scapulars and wing-coverts) showing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'enfant Et Les Sortilèges
''L'enfant et les sortilèges: Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties'' (''The Child and the Spells: A Lyric Fantasy in Two Parts'') is an opera in one act, with music by Maurice Ravel to a libretto by Colette. It is Ravel's second opera, his first being '' L'heure espagnole''. Written from 1917 to 1925, ''L'enfant et les sortilèges'' was first performed in Monte Carlo in 1925 conducted by Victor de Sabata. After being offered the opportunity to write a musical work, Colette wrote the text in eight days. Several composers had proposed to Colette that she write to music, but she was only excited by the prospect of Ravel. Composition history During World War I, the Opéra de Paris director Jacques Rouché asked Colette, whom he met at one of Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux's salons, to provide the text for a fairy ballet. Colette originally wrote the story under the title ''Divertissements pour ma fille''. After Colette chose Ravel to set the text to music, a copy was sent to him i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Herscher-Clément
Jeanne Herscher-Clément (Vincennes Vincennes (; ) is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Vincennes is famous for its castle: the Château de Vincennes. It is next to but does not include the ..., 1878 – Givry, 1941) was a French pianist and composer. In 1922, she provided the music for a staging of , a farce by Roger Semichon originally published in 1913 after the 16th-century farce by Nicole de La Chesnaye. Works *Song cycle ''Le bestiaire du paradis''. "Le furet" ; "La truite" ; "Le coq et la poule" ; "L'araignée" ; "Le chat" ; "La reine des abeilles" ; "La huppe" ; "La chouette" ; "Le petit singe" ; "Les martins-pêcheurs" ; "La mouche" ; "Le psaume du merle". Recording by Céline Ricci (soprano) and Daniel Lockert (piano) 2012. References 20th-century French women classical pianists 20th-century French classical pianists 1878 births 1941 deaths People from Vincennes< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Owl (TV Series)
''The Owl'' () is a series of short CGI-animated episodes for children's television. It is a silent comedy revolving around the life of a grumpy and unlucky owl, who has trouble dealing with all sorts of surreal situations and gets comically dismembered at the end. Plot The series features the eponymous Owl, pink in color, and with blue feet that "float" below her body. The Owl also resembles a plastic figurine and has a grumpy, anti-social personality. Each of the minute-long fifty-four episodes centers on the Owl attempting to overcome unfortunate circumstances, but as a running gag A running gag, or running joke, is a literary device that takes the form of an amusing joke or a comical reference and appears repeatedly throughout a work of literature or other form of storytelling. Though they are similar, catchphrases are no ..., end in her demise by her various appendages and body being dispensed of in unusual or comical ways. The series' setting takes place high above ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blind Owl (film)
''The Blind Owl'' (French: ''La chouette aveugle'') is a 1987 French drama film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It is an oneiric, metafictional work with some scenes and characters loosely based on the 1937 book ''The Blind Owl'' by the Persian writer Sadegh Hedayat Sadegh Hedayat (, ; 17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951) was an Iranian peoples, Iranian writer, translator, satirist, and poet. Best known for his novel ''The Blind Owl'', he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in .... References External links * 1987 films French fantasy drama films Films directed by Raúl Ruiz Films based on works by Sadegh Hedayat Films based on Iranian novels 1980s French films {{1980s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Owl Quest
''On The Trail Of The Golden Owl'' () is a French armchair treasure hunt book created by communications expert Régis Hauser under the pseudonym "Max Valentin" and illustrated by artist Michel Becker. Launched in 1993, the statue was discovered on October 3, 2024, making it the second longest treasure hunt ever organized (after The Secret). The Chouette d'Or was the longest running treasure hunt with a single prize, while 3 of the Secret's 12 prizes have been found. A new edition of ''On The Trail Of The Golden Owl'' written by Michel Becker was published in December 2019, called ''The Secret Notebooks'' (4th edition 2019). In 2021 Michel Becker became the official organiser of the treasure hunt, obtaining the sealed envelope containing the hunt solution from the family of Régis Hauser. Becker journeyed with a legal bailiff to check that the owl prize was still buried at the location revealed in the solution. He reported that when he dug at the spot he found the bronze owl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalogue D'oiseaux
''Catalogue d'oiseaux'' ("Catalogue of birds") is a work for piano solo by Olivier Messiaen consisting of thirteen pieces, written between October 1956 and September 1958. It is devoted to birds and dedicated to his second wife Yvonne Loriod. Premiere The work was premiered by Yvonne Loriod on 15 April 1959 in Paris, Salle Gaveau, for the concerts of the " Domaine musical" organized by Pierre Boulez. Aim of the work For these pieces, Messiaen did not want to be limited to the evocation of the bird of which each of it bears the title.Booklet of the above referenced CD Title of the pieces *1 - The Alpine chough (''Chocard des Alpes'') *2 - The Eurasian golden oriole (''Loriot d'Europe'') *3 - The blue rock thrush (''Merle bleu'') *4 - The western black-eared wheatear (''Traquet stapazin'') *5 - The tawny owl (''Chouette hulotte'') *6 - The woodlark (''Alouette lulu'') *7 - The Eurasian reed warbler (''Rousserolle effarvatte'') *8 - The greater sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithology, ornithologist. One of the major composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th century, he was also an outstanding teacher of composition and musical analysis. Messiaen entered the Conservatoire de Paris at age 11 and studied with Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré, among others. He was appointed organist at the Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris, in 1931, a post he held for 61 years, until his death. He taught at the Schola Cantorum de Paris during the 1930s. After the Battle of France, fall of France in 1940, Messiaen was interned for nine months in the German prisoner of war camp Stalag VIII-A, where he composed his (''Quartet for the End of Time'') for the four instruments available in the prison—piano, violin, cello and clarinet. The piece was first performed by Messiaen and fellow prisoners for an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hervé Bazin
Hervé Bazin (; 17 April 191117 February 1996) was a French writer, whose best-known novels covered semi-autobiographical topics of teenage rebellion and dysfunctional families. Biography Bazin, born Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France came from a high-bourgeois Catholic family. He was the great-nephew of the writer René Bazin. His father was a magistrate who with his wife had been sent to China to take up a diplomatic post. Hervé and his brother were brought up in the ancestral home, the chateau of Le Patys, by their grandmother. When she died, his mother returned from Hanoi with reluctance. She sent Bazin to a variety of clerical establishments and then to the military academy, the Prytanée de la Fleche, from which he was expelled as incompetent. He opposed his authoritarian mother, ran away several times during his teens, and refused Catholic teachings. At the age of 20 he broke up with his family. Leaving his home for Paris, he took a degre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Oshetsky
Claire Oshetsky is an American novelist. They were a science journalist. They are best known for their novel ''Chouette'', which was longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing The William Saroyan International Prize for Writing is a biennial literary award for fiction and nonfiction in the spirit of William Saroyan by emerging writers. It was established by Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation .... The audiobook adaptation of their sophomore novel, ''Poor Deer'', is a finalist for Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year. Oshetsky uses they/she pronouns. Works * * References 21st-century American novelists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American women novelists American science journalists American women journalists {{US-novelist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Tourneur
Nicole Tourneur (9 August 1950 – 14 May 2011) was a French novelist. Biography Born in Maisons-Alfort, Tourneur trained as an accountant. She lived in Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar .... Works For adults * Le dernier soleil * Laurie ou le souffle du papillon, novel (Gunten, Dole), 2001 * Les fenêtres, novella (Gunten, Dole), 2002 * Passé compliqué, novel (Gunten, Dole), 2004 * Les Dieux sont servis, novel (Gunten, Dole), 2006 * Terre brûlante, novel (Gunten, Dole), 2009 * Où va le temps ... novella (Janus, Paris), 2010 * Le serpentin des mots novel (Editions du bout de la rue), 2011 For children * Clara et les nuages (Éditions du Bout de la Rue), 2007 * Girouette la chouette (Éditions du Bout de la Rue), 2007 * Les péripéties d’Antoine - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Astruc
Alexandre Astruc (; 13July 192319May 2016) was a French film critic and film director. Biography Before becoming a film director, he was a journalist, novelist and film critic. His contribution to the auteur theory centers on his notion of the ''caméra-stylo'' or "camera-pen" and the idea that directors should wield their cameras like writers use their pens.Alexandre Astruc, "The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo," in ''The New Wave'', ed. Peter Graham, pp. 17-23. Trans. from "Naissance d'une nouvelle avant-garde: la caméra-stylo," ''L'Écran Français'' 144, 30 March 1948. In 1994, he was awarded the René Clair Award for his whole body of film work. Selected filmography ''(s) indicates films also co-scripted by Astruc'' *1949: ''Ulysse ou Les mauvaises rencontres'' also known as ''Aller et retour'', a short film; Astruc also wrote the scenario *1952: '' The Crimson Curtain'' (s) (Le rideau cramoisi) *1952: '' The Respectful Prostitute'' *1955: '' Les Mauvais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
