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Hôtel Régina
The Hôtel Regina () is a grand hotel in Paris which opened in 1900. It is on the Place des Pyramides, across the Rue de Rivoli, Paris, Rue de Rivoli from the Jardin des Tuileries and an entrance to the Louvre. In the square in front of it is a gilded statue of Joan of Arc on horseback. History Inaugurated in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle (1900), World's Fair in Paris, the hotel is on the Place des Pyramides, which takes its name from Campaigns of 1798 in the French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleon's victory in Egypt in 1798. The hotel's building dates from the Second Empire (France), Second Empire. Léonard Tauber and his associate Constant Baverez built it between 1898 and 1900. It was named after Queen Victoria, symbolising the Entente Cordiale between the French and the British. The first phase of the hotel's renovation was completed in summer 2014. Renovation of the second wing, begun in October 2014, was inaugurated on 29 September 2015. The renovations' estimated cos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Place Des Pyramides
The Place des Pyramides is a public square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. It is located in the middle of the Rue de Rivoli, at its intersection with the Rue des Pyramides and the Avenue du General Lemonnier, at the eastern end of the Tuileries Garden. The square was named for the Rue des Pyramides, the street leading into it, itself named for the Battle of the Pyramids, a Napoleonic victory achieved in Egypt in 1798. Description A riding academy under Antoine de Pluvinel, squire to Henry III, Henry IV and Louis XIII, was set up in this area in the 16th century. Known as "Le Pluvinel", this was the forerunner of the classical equestrian school, and it is commemorated by a plaque above the entrance to the Hôtel Regina restauran The gilded bronze equestrian statue of Joan of Arc on this square was produced by Emmanuel Frémiet in 1874. Image:Paris_75001_Place_des_Pyramides_Jeanne_d'Arc_equestre_by_Frémiet_S1.jpg, ''Joan of Arc Joan of Arc ( ; ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladurée
Pâtisserie E. Ladurée, commonly known as Ladurée (), is a French manufacturer and retailer of high-end pastries and candy, established in 1862. Ladurée is well-known throughout the world for its Macaron, macarons. The company is a ''société par actions simplifiée'' (simplified joint stock corporation) and has its head office in Paris, France. Early years Louis Ernest Ladurée, a miller, founded a bakery in 1862 on the rue Royale, Paris. During the Paris Commune uprising of 1871, the bakery was burnt down. A pastry shop was built at the same location, and Jules Chéret was entrusted with the interior decoration. The cherub, chubby cherubs dressed as pastry cooks, painted by him on the ceiling, form the company's emblem. The interior of the premises were painted in the same celadon colour as the façade. Ladurée's rise to fame came in 1930 when his little cousin, Pierre Desfontaines, had the original idea of the double-decker, sticking two macaron shells together with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red 2 (film)
''Red 2'' is a 2013 American action comedy film and sequel to the 2010 film ''Red''. It was based on the limited comic book series ''Red'', created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, and published by the DC Comics imprint Homage. The film stars Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lee Byung-hun, Anthony Hopkins, and Helen Mirren, with Dean Parisot directing a screenplay by Jon and Erich Hoeber. It was released on July 19, 2013. Plot Three years after the events of the previous film, ex-CIA operative Frank Moses tries to lead a normal life with girlfriend Sarah Ross. He dismisses Marvin Boggs' claims that enemies are still after them; Marvin drives off and his car explodes. Although Frank is unconvinced Marvin is dead, Sarah convinces him to attend Marvin's funeral where he delivers a tearful eulogy. Government agents interrogate Frank at an FBI Yankee White facility. Corrupt agent Jack Horton and a team of private military contractors ambu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adèle Blanc-Sec
''The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec'' () is a gaslamp fantasy comic book series first appearing in 1976 written and illustrated by French comics artist Jacques Tardi and published in ''album'' format by Belgian publisher Casterman, sometimes preceded by serialisation in various periodicals, intermittently since then. The comic portrays the titular far-fetched adventures and mystery-solving of its eponymous heroine, herself a writer of popular fiction, in a secret history-infused, gaslamp fantasy version of the early 20th century, set primarily in Paris and prominently incorporating real-life locations and events. Initially a light-hearted parody of such fiction of the period, it takes on a darker tone as it moves into the post–World War I years and the 1920s. One of Tardi's most popular works and his first to span multiple ''albums'', it has been reprinted in English and other translations and has been adapted as a feature film. History ''Adèle Blanc- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Female Agents
''Female Agents'' () is a 2008 French historical drama film directed by Jean-Paul Salomé and starring Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Déborah François, and Moritz Bleibtreu. Written by Salomé and Laurent Vachaud, the film is about female resistance fighters in the Second World War. Jean-Paul Salomé, the director, drew inspiration from an obituary in ''The Times'' newspaper of Lise de Baissac (Lise Villameur), from Mauritius (then a British colony), one of the heroines of the SOE, named "Louise Desfontaines" in the film and played by Sophie Marceau. The film was partly funded by BBC Films. Plot In May 1944 Louise Desfontaines (Sophie Marceau), a member of the French Resistance, flees to Spain after her husband is killed, where she is captured and later expatriated to London. She is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the secret spy and sabotage service initiated by Winston Churchill. Louise is given an urgent first mission: to extricate a Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagan (film)
''Sagan'' is a 2008 French biographical film, directed by Diane Kurys, starring Sylvie Testud as French author Françoise Sagan and Pierre Palmade as a dancer and a society man, Jacques Chazot, who was very well known in France. The film starts in the mid-1950s as Sagan (then still known under her real name Quoirez) closes a publishing deal for her controversial debut novel '' Bonjour Tristesse''. The film then follows Sagan's road to fame, her drug abuse, alcoholism, and gambling, her hedonistic lifestyle spending too much and becoming poor, as well as several complex love affairs with both men and women. Cast * Sylvie Testud - Françoise Sagan * Pierre Palmade - Jacques Chazot * Jeanne Balibar - Peggy Roche * Arielle Dombasle - Astrid * Lionel Abelanski - Bernard Frank * Guillaume Gallienne - Jacques Quoirez * Denis Podalydès - Guy Schoeller * Bruno Wolkowitch - Philippe * Samuel Labarthe - René Julliard * Chantal Neuwirth - Madame Lebreton * Alexis Michal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bourne Identity (2002 Film)
''The Bourne Identity'' is a 2002 action-thriller film directed by Doug Liman and written by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron. Based on Robert Ludlum's 1980 novel of the same name, it is the first installment in the ''Bourne'' franchise, and the film stars Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. In the film, Jason Bourne (Damon) suffers from psychogenic amnesia and is forced to fight to unlock his identity and his mysterious connection to the CIA. Attempts to develop a feature film adaptation of Ludlum's novel first began in 1981 but stalled after being passed to different distributors, with Warner Bros. producing a television film adaptation in 1988. Liman revived the feature film project in 1996 and worked with Ludlum and David Self on its screenplay after Gilroy initially declined: Gilroy made several changes to the script upon joining, with additional contributions from Herron. After Damon and Potente we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss Of The Dragon
''Kiss of the Dragon'' (''Le Baiser mortel du dragon'' in French) is a 2001 English-language French action film directed by Chris Nahon, written and produced by French filmmaker Luc Besson, and starring an international cast led by Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, and Tchéky Karyo. It follows a Chinese police officer who is sent to Paris to assist in the arrest of a Chinese mob boss. Framed for murder and hard pressed to prove his innocence, he teams up with a woman forced into prostitution. Li wanted to take a realistic approach to the fight scenes, and forgo the CGI and wire work that had been popularized by films such as '' Charlie’s Angels'' and ''The Matrix''. Consequently, most of the action sequences did not use CGI or wire work; only two scenes required CGI enhancement and only one scene involved wire work. Plot Liu Jian, a Taiwanese police officer, is sent to Paris to help the French authorities apprehend Chinese mob boss Mr. Big, who is involved in heroin smuggling. He m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Is A Woman
''Man Is a Woman'' (French title: ''L'homme est une femme comme les autres'') is a 1998 French film directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann. Synopsis Simon Eskanazy is a thirty-year-old gay musician. Born into a Jewish family, he took great pains to accept his homosexuality, and to get his family (including his mother and his uncle, Salomon) to do the same. The latter, Uncle Salomon is a wealthy banker who offered him a deal: he'll give him 10 million francs and will bequeath his mansion to Simon only if Simon agrees to marry a woman. First reluctant, he met Rosalie Baumann, a Jewish singer known for singing in Yiddish, she is very observant, and her parents live in the United States. Little by little, while getting to know her, Simon falls in love with her. Cast * Antoine de Caunes: Simon Eskanazy * Elsa Zylberstein : Rosalie Baumann * Michel Aumont : Salomon Eskanazy * Gad Elmaleh : David Applebaum * Maurice Bénichou : Mordechai Baumann * Catherine Hiegel: Hannah Baumann * Judith M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Same Old Song
''Same Old Song'' () is a 1997 French comedy-drama film. It was directed by Alain Resnais, and written by Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri. Jaoui and Bacri also starred in the film with Sabine Azéma, Lambert Wilson, André Dussollier and Pierre Arditi. Plot Odile (Azéma), a business executive, is married to weak, furtive Claude (Arditi). In the past Odile was close to successful businessman Nicolas (Bacri), now married with kids and returning to Paris after an eight-year absence. She is looking for a new, bigger apartment from estate agent Marc (Wilson). Her younger sister Camille (Jaoui), has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is a Paris tour guide. Simon (Dussollier) is a regular on Camille's tours because he's attracted to her, although he claims to be researching his historical radio dramas. Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, since he hopes to eventually have his family join him in Paris. The mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Femme Nikita (film)
''La Femme Nikita'', released as ''Nikita'' in France, is a 1990 French-language action thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson. The film stars Anne Parillaud as the title character, a criminal who is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering policemen during an armed pharmacy robbery. Her government handlers fake her death and recruit her as a professional assassin. After intense training, she starts a career as a killer, where she struggles to balance her work with her personal life. Besson has said that he wrote Nikita with Parillaud, then his romantic partner, in mind. The film was considered a surprise hit. Roger Ebert called it a "smart, hard-edged, psycho-romantic thriller" in his review. Janet Maslin wrote in ''The New York Times'': "''La Femme Nikita'' combines hip violence, punk anomie, lavish settings and an old-fashioned paean to the power of love." It was remade as ''Black Cat (1991 film), Black Cat'' (1991) in Hong Kong, ''Point of No Retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Joint Brothers
''The Joint Brothers'' or ''Les Frères Pétard'' is a French comedy film directed by Hervé Palud released in 1986. Cast * Gérard Lanvin : Manu * Jacques Villeret : Momo * Josiane Balasko : Aline * Valérie Mairesse : Brigitte * Daniel Russo : Harky * Thomas M. Pollard : Sammy Le Black * Patrice Valota : Teuch * Alain Pacadis : la balance * Cheik Doukouré : Razzo * Michel Galabru : Monsieur Jabert * Philippe Khorsand : un flic * Dominique Lavanant : la policière * René Duclos : Nanard * Norbert Letheule : Aldo * Smaïn : un petit trafiquant dans le train * Tina Aumont : la fêtarde déguisée * Guy Cuevas Guy Cuevas is a Cuban-born writer, musician, and Paris disc jockey. Born Guillermo Cuevas Carrión, he worked the turntables at Club Sept, and Le Palace before becoming the artistic director, first of Les Bains-Douches, then the Barrio Latino. As ... : l'égyptien References External links * * 1986 films 1980s French-language films 1986 comedy fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
