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Faucon Sporting , Balearic Islands in 1673
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Faucon () may refer to: French communes * Faucon, Vaucluse * Faucon-de-Barcelonnette, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence * Faucon-du-Caire, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence * Aunou-le-Faucon, Orne * Saint-Julien-le-Faucon, Calvados * Villers-Faucon, Somme Other * Bernard Faucon (born 1950), French photographer and writer * Philippe Faucon (born 1958), French film director, screenwriter and producer * ''Le Faucon'' (film), a 1983 film by Tunisian director Paul Boujenah * ''Le faucon'' (opera), a 1786 opera by the Russian composer Dmitry Bortniansky * French ship ''Faucon'' * ''Faucon'', a French ship which sank off Formentera Formentera (, ) is a Spanish island located in the Mediterranean Sea, which belongs to the Balearic Islands autonomous community (Spain) together with Mallorca, Menorca, and Ibiza. Formentera is the smallest and most southerly island of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falcon (other)
A falcon is a small to medium-sized bird of prey. Falcon may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Millennium Falcon'', a fictional spaceship from the ''Star Wars'' films * ''The Falcon'' (film), or ''Banović Strahinja'', a 1981 Yugoslavian-German adventure film * Falcon Entertainment, the parent corporation of a group of gay pornographic film studios ** Falcon Studios, a large company producing gay pornography, based in San Francisco * ''Falcón'' (TV series), a 2012 television series produced by Sky Atlantic and based on the Robert Wilson novels * "Falcon" (''Marvel Studios: Legends''), an episode of ''Marvel Studios: Legends'' Fictional characters * Falcon (comics), a comic book superhero in the Marvel Universe * Falcon (Marvel Cinematic Universe), the Marvel Cinematic Universe version * The Falcon (fictional detective), a detective created by Michael Arlen in 1940 * ''The Falcon'' (radio series), a radio drama featuring the detective creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faucon, Vaucluse
Faucon () is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. See also *Communes of the Vaucluse department The following is a list of the 151 communes of the Vaucluse department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Vaucluse {{Vaucluse-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faucon-de-Barcelonnette
Faucon-de-Barcelonnette (, literally ''Faucon of Barcelonnette''; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. Population See also * Ubaye Valley *Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department The following is a list of the 198 communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{AlpesHauteProvence-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faucon-du-Caire
Faucon-du-Caire (; ) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department The following is a list of the 198 communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{AlpesHauteProvence-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aunou-le-Faucon
Aunou-le-Faucon () is a commune in the Orne department of Normandy in northwestern France. Geography The commune of is made up of the following villages and hamlets, Le Port d'Aunou, Le Moulin, Le Monthart and Aunou-le-Faucon. Aunou-le-Faucon along with another 65 communes is part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents. Aunou-le-Faucon has 3 water courses running through it, The Orne plus two streams the Noës and Rogneux. Population Places of interest National heritage sites Tour aux Anglais – a 14th-century building listed as a Monument historique in 1981 In popular culture Aunou-le-Faucon featured as a fief - originally owned by Robert de Thibouville, the father of Marguerite de Carrouges - at the center of a dispute between Jean de Carrouges, the husband of Marguerite, and Jacques le Gris, the favorite of their liege-lord, Peter II, Count of Alençon, in the 2021 film '' The Last Duel'', directed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Julien-le-Faucon
Saint-Julien-le-Faucon () is a former Communes of France, commune in the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department in the Normandy (administrative region), Normandy Regions of France, region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Mézidon Vallée d'Auge. 16 September 2016 Population See also *Communes of the Calvados departmentReferences Former communes of Calvados (department) Calvados communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Lisieux-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villers-Faucon
Villers-Faucon () is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Geography The commune is situated 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Saint-Quentin, at the D72 and D101 crossroads, in the far east of the département. The commune also includes the hamlet of Sainte-Emilie. Population History According to Abbot Decagny of Roisel, Villers-Faucon was originally Villers-Falcon and previously Villare Falconis, which means, in Latin, villa of the hawks. Villers-Faucon's original purpose was that of a falconry, located in the heart of the forest of Arrouaise. The village was almost totally destroyed in 1916, during the First World War. Following a withdrawal of German troops around the Hindenburg line, the inhabitants were evacuated to the north to Denain, tons of dynamite were set off around all of the buildings in the town (including the sugar refinery at St. Emilie) and all the trees were cut down, to leave the field open for the approach of troops. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Faucon
Bernard Faucon (born 12 September 1950) is a French photographer and writer. He first established a career in art photography and has exhibited widely around the world. Some of his work has attracted accusations of promoting pedophilia, which he rejected as "a loss of open-mindedness" ("la perte de l'esprit libre") in a 2005 interview. In 2024, the French daily ''Le Monde'' published accusations from three men who alleged having suffered "sexual violence" at his hands as adolescent muses for his photography. Biography Faucon was born in Apt, Vaucluse, Apt, in Provence, southern France. He attended the ''lycée'' in Apt, then studied at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, graduating in Philosophy in 1973. Until 1977 he worked as a fine art painter, and thereafter discovered photography. His photographic work expresses a love of youth and dreamy beauty, using saturated colour, natural settings, rooms, and often Tableaux Vivant, tableaux of mannequins. His major photographic series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Faucon
Philippe Faucon (; born 26 January 1958) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Life and career Philippe Faucon was born in Oujda, the son of a French soldier and an Algerian ''pied-noir'' mother. He grew up between Morocco and Algeria, where his father did his military service. After completing his studies at Aix-Marseille University, he began to work in film and in 1984, he directed his first short film, titled ''La Jeunesse''. In 2015, he directed the film ''Fatima'', which was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. For the film, he received the Louis Delluc Prize for Best Film, the César Award for Best Film and the César Award for Best Adaptation, among other awards. Political views In December 2023, alongside 50 other filmmakers, Faucon signed an open letter published in ''Libération (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Faucon (film)
Paul Boujenah, is a French-Tunisian film director. He is the brother of Michel Boujenah and the uncle of siblings Matthieu Boujenah Matthieu Boujenah (born 23 June 1976) is a French comedian and actor. He is the nephew of Michel Boujenah and Paul Boujenah Paul Boujenah, is a French-Tunisian film director. He is the brother of Michel Boujenah Michel Boujenah (born 3 ... and Lucie Boujenah. Selected filmography References External links * Tunisian film directors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Tunisia-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Faucon (opera)
''Le faucon'' (, Russian: ) is an ''opéra comique'' in three acts by the Ukrainian composer Dmitry Bortniansky with a French language libretto by . It was first performed on 11 October 1786 at the Gatchina Palace in Russia by aristocratic amateur singers. The plot is borrowed from Boccaccio's ''The Decameron'' ( Fifth Day, 9th tale) which also served as the basis for Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's 1771 comic opera ''Le faucon'' (libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine) (and later for Gounod's ''La colombe''). Two arias from the opera, "Le beau Tirsis" and "Adieu, Adieu", were published in a 1793 collection of songs by Bortniansky (''Recueil de romances et chansons'', St. Petersburg: Breitkopf). Although rarely performed in its entirety in modern times, ''Le faucon'' was revived as a chamber opera by Boris Pokrovsky at the Moscow Chamber Musical Theatre in 1979. Excerpts from the work were also performed at New York City's Avery Fisher Hall by the Choral Guild of Atlanta and the orchestra o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Faucon
Several ships of the French navy have borne the name ''Faucon'': * ''Faucon'' (1638), broken up in 1661 * ''Faucon'' (1674), broken up in 1708 * ''Faucon'' (1728), a brig * ''Faucon'' (1759), a cutter * (1887), a destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats. They were conceived i ..., withdrawn from service 1920 See also * Faucon (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Faucon, French Ship French Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
