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Châteauvallon
''Châteauvallon'' is a soap opera of , created by Georges Conchon and Jean-Pierre Petrolacci, which was broadcast in France between and on Antenne 2. It was a France, Franco-Switzerland, Swiss-Great Britain, British-Italy, Italian-Luxembourg (country), Luxembourgish co-production. Since May 2021, the entire series has been available on the free platform Pluto TV. Synopsis On the banks of the Loire (river), Loire, in Châteauvallon, lives the rich and powerful Berg family. At ''La Commanderie'', their Château, chateau, there is a double celebration: the birthday of the patriarch, Antonin (Jean Davy), and the anniversary of his newspaper ''La Dépêche républicaine''. The festival also marks the return of Florence (Chantal Nobel), the 'cursed' daughter, whom her father would like to see take up the torch. The next day, the body of journalist Paul Bossis (Yann Dedet) is found in the park. The latter was investigating the dubious real estate transaction of the Sablons. André ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Cosma
Vladimir Cosma (born 13 April 1940) is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist. He was born into a family of musicians. His father, Teodor Cosma, was a pianist and conductor, his mother a writer-composer, his uncle, Edgar Cosma, composer and conductor, and one of his grandmothers, pianist, a student of the renowned Ferruccio Busoni. Career After receiving first prizes for violin and composition at the Bucharest Conservatoire of Music, he arrived in Paris in 1963 and continued his studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, working with Nadia Boulanger. As well as for classical music, he discovered early on a passion for jazz, film music and all forms of popular music. From 1964 he made a number of international tours as a concert violinist and began to devote himself more and more to composing. He wrote various compositions including: ''Trois mouvements d'été'' for symphony orchestra, ''Oblique'' for violoncello and string orchestra, music for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Nobel
Chantal Nobel (born Chantal Bonneau, 23 November 1948) is a French actress. Life and career Chantal Nobel is mostly known for having played the main female role of Florence Berg in the French successful television series ''Châteauvallon''. After having participated at the Dakar Rally with , her career brutally ended on 28 April 1985. After the broadcast of an episode of the television program ''Champs-Élysées'', she was victim of a terrible car accident in a Porsche 924 Carrera GT driven by the singer Sacha Distel, during the trip in the village of Maltaverne, a small village located next to Tracy-sur-Loire. After six weeks in a coma, the face grievously injured and handicapped for life, she left the media to go to the South of France, ending at the same time the series ''Châteauvallon''. She filed a complaint against Sacha Distel, who was then sentenced to one year in prison for involuntary injuries. During her hospitalization in 1985, three paparazzi entered her hospi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Conchon
Georges Conchon (9 May 1925 in St. Avitus (Puy-de-Dôme) – 29 July 1990 in Paris) was a French writer and screenwriter. Biography He grew up in a family of teachers,Pierre Maury: Georges Conchon n’ecrira plus'. archives.lesoir.be, 31. Juli 1990. and after graduating in philosophy, passed the support of the parliamentary and between the Assembly French Union where he was division head from 1952 to 1958. He began writing, while traveling extensively, notably in Africa. He became secretary in 1960 debates in the Senate until 1980. He was journalist and novelist, he began his career as a scriptwriter in 1967. His first published novel will be ''Les Grandes Lessives'' in 1953, followed by ''Chemins écartés''. He is then hired by Pierre Lazareff to ''France-Soir'' as a journalist. This experience led to ''L'État sauvage'', which earned him the Prix Goncourt in 1964. Before the Goncourt, he had received the Fénéon in 1956, then the Booksellers prize in 1960 for ''La Corr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Marchal (actor)
Georges Marchal (10 January 1920 – 28 November 1997) was a French actor. Born Georges Louis Lucot in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, the strikingly handsome Marchal was discovered in the early-1940s by director Jean Grémillon. By the early 1950s, he had become one of the top male stars of French cinema, second only, perhaps, to actor Jean Marais. He was also a favorite leading man of filmmaker Luis Buñuel, appearing in the director's films ''La voie lactée'', ''Belle de jour'', ''Cela s'appelle l'aurore'', and ''La mort en ce jardin''. In 1951, Marchal married French actress Dany Robin and together they were a popular couple, playing in the movies ''La Passagère'' (1949), ''La Voyageuse inattendue'', ''Le plus joli péché du monde'', ''Jupiter'' directed by Gilles Grangier (1952), and ''Quand sonnera midi'' directed by Edmond T. Gréville (1958). On television, Marchal played Claude Jade's father in the TV-series ''The Island of Thirty Coffins'', and appeared as R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Davy
Jean Davy (15 October 1911 – 5 February 2001) was a French film, stage voice actor. Career He was a Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française. In the premiere production of '' Antigone'' in Paris, 1944, Davy created the role of Créon. on ''A.R.T, La Mémoire du théâtre'', accessed 3 August 2019. He was a French voice of ('' The Ten Commandments'', '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loire (river) The Loire (, also ; ; oc, Léger, ; la, Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône. It rises in the southeastern quarter of the French Massif Central in the Cévennes range (in the department of Ardèche) at near Mont Gerbier de Jonc; it flows north through Nevers to Orléans, then west through Tours and Nantes until it reaches the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) at Saint-Nazaire. Its main tributaries include the rivers Nièvre, Maine and the Erdre on its right bank, and the rivers Allier, Cher, Indre, Vienne, and the Sèvre Nantaise on the left bank. The Loire gives its name to six departments: Loire, Haute-Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire, and Saône-et-Loire. The lower-central swathe of its valley straddling the Pays de la Loire and Centre-Val de Loire regions was added to the ... [...More Info...] |
