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Jean-Luc Bitton
Jean-Luc Bitton (born in 1959 in Lyon, France) is a writer and journalist. Together with Raymond Cousse, he wrote ''Emmanuel Bove : La Vie Comme une Ombre'', a biography of the writer Emmanuel Bove. He also participated in the creation of the Bove segment of the television series ''A Century of Writers'' (1997) and has created a website devoted entirely to Bove. He will also be the first biographer of French poet Jacques Rigaut, in a forthcoming book scheduled for publication in 2014. He has published articles in the journals ''Jungle'', ''Perpendicular'', ''The Series'', the Nouvelle Revue Française, ''Nouvelle Revue Français''e and ''Rue Saint Ambrose''. Works *''Emmanuel Bove : La Vie Comme une Ombre'', with Raymond Cousse. Preface by Peter Handke. Castor Astral (1994) *''Nos Amours. Un Siècle de Lettres d'Amour'', Flammarion (2001) *''La Mer de la Tranquillité: Images'', with Dolorès Marat, Les Petits Matins (2005) *''Jacques Rigaut, le suicidé magnifique'', P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Luc Bitton En 2019
Jean-Luc may refer to: Politics * Jean-Luc Bennahmias (born 1954), a French politician and Member of the European Parliament * Jean-Luc Bourgeaux (born 1963), a French politician * Jean-Luc Dehaene (1940–2014), a Flemish politician * Jean-Luc Fichet (born 1953), French politician * Jean-Luc Laurent (born 1957), a French politician * Jean-Luc Mandaba (1943–2000), a former Prime Minister of the Central African Republic * Jean-Luc Mélenchon (born 1951), a French politician * Jean-Luc Pépin (1924–1995), a Canadian academic, politician, and Cabinet member * Jean-Luc Poudroux (born 1950), a French politician Entertainment * Jean-Luc De Meyer (born 1957), a Belgian vocalist and lyricist best known as the lead vocalist of Front 242 * Jean-Luc Ponty (born 1942), a French virtuoso violinist and jazz composer * Jean-Luc Picard, a fictional starship captain in the ''Star Trek'' universe * Jean-Luc Bilodeau (born 1990), an actor, played Josh Trager on the television show ''Kyle XY'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyon, France
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon is the third-largest city in France with a population of 522,250 at the Jan. 2021 census within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Lyon metropolitan area had a population of 2,308,818 that same year, the second largest in France. Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,424,069 in 2021. Lyon is the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and seat of the Departmental Council of Rhône (whose jurisdiction, however, no longer extends over the Metropolis of Lyon since 2015). The capital of the Gauls during th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Bove
Emmanuel Bove (20 April 1898 – 19 July 1945) was a French writer, who also published under the pseudonyms of Pierre Dugast and Jean Vallois. Life and career Emmanuel Bove was born Emmanuel Bobovnikoff on 20 April 1898 in Paris to a Jewish father who migrated from Ukraine and a Luxembourgish mother. He studied at the Ecole alsacienne and the lycée Calvin de Genève. At the age of 14, he decided to become a novelist. In 1915, he was sent to boarding school in England, where he completed his education. Returning to Paris in 1916, he found himself in a precarious situation. In 1921, he married Suzanne Vallois and moved to the suburbs of Vienna. There he began his writing career, publishing numerous popular novels under the pseudonym Jean Vallois. He returned to Paris in 1922 and worked as a journalist. His work came to the attention of Colette, who helped him publish his first novel under his own name, ''Mes amis'' (''My Friends'') in 1924. The novel became a success and he con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Rigaut
Jacques Rigaut (; 30 December 1898 – 9 November 1929) was a French surrealist poet. Born in Paris, he was part of the Dadaist movement. His works frequently talked about suicide and he came to regard its successful completion as his occupation. In 1929 at the age of 30, as he had announced, Rigaut shot himself, using a ruler to be sure the bullet would pass through his heart.Steve Watson'4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma and Jacques Vache. - book reviews' ''Art in America'', November 1995 He is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre. Rigaut's works include: * ''Agence Générale du Suicide'' * ''Et puis merde!'' * ''Papiers Posthumes'' * ''Lord Patchogue'' His suicide inspired the book ''Will O' the Wisp (novel), Will O' the Wisp'' by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle. The movie ''The Fire Within'' from Louis Malle is based on this book. The movie ''Oslo, August 31st'' directed by Joachim Trier, released in 2011, is also largely based on ''W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nouvelle Revue Française
''La Nouvelle Revue Française'' (; "The New French Review") is a literary magazine based in France. In France, it is often referred to as the ''NRF''. History and profile The magazine was founded in 1909 by a group of intellectuals including André Gide, Jacques Copeau, and Jean Schlumberger (writer), Jean Schlumberger. It was established 'in opposition to other, more established, cultural institutions, most notably the Académie Française and its associated networks'.:4 In 1911, Gaston Gallimard became editor of the ''Revue'', which led to the founding of the publishing house, Éditions Gallimard. During World War I its publication stopped. The magazine was relaunched in 1919. Established writers such as Paul Bourget and Anatole France contributed to the magazine from its early days. The magazine's influence grew until, during the interwar period, it became the leading literary journal, occupying a unique role in French culture. The first published works by André Malraux and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Handke
Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrians, Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century. In the late 1960s, he earned his reputation as a member of the avant-garde with such plays as ''Offending the Audience'' (1966) in which actors analyze the nature of theatre and alternately insult the audience and praise its "performance", and ''Kaspar (play), Kaspar'' (1967). His novels, mostly ultra objective, deadpan accounts of characters in extreme states of mind, include ''The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick'' (1970) and ''The Left-Handed Woman (novel), The Left-Handed Woman'' (1976). Prompted by his mother's suicide in 1971, he refle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolorès Marat
Dolorès Marat (born 1944) is a French photographer. Life and work Marat first worked as a seamstress, then as an apprentice to a local photographer, a laboratory assistant, a salesperson in a camera shop, a photographers' printer, a lab assistant at L'Oréal magazine ''Votre Beauté'', and a studio photographer, before finally working as an independent photographer from 1984. She began her personal work in the mid-1990s. She uses colour slide film and her prints are made using the Fresson process. Publications *''Éclipse''. Paris: Contrejour, 1990. *''Rives''. Paris: Marval, 1995. *''Carven : half a century of elegance'', Dominique Paulvé. Paris: Gründ, 1995. . *''Boulevard Maritime''. With Frédéric H. Fajardie. Point du jour, 2000. *''Labyrinthe''. Point du jour and Dewi Lewis, 2001. *''New-York USA''. With Patrick Roegiers. Paris: Marval, 2002. *''Illusion''. With Marie Darrieussecq. , 2003. *''Near Life Experience''. Paris: , 2003. Curated by Angelin Preljocaj, edited an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Births
Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the vicinity of Earth's Moon, where it was intended to crash-land, but instead becomes the first spacecraft to go into heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. ** The southernmost island of the Maldives archipelago, Addu Atoll, declares its independence from the Kingdom of the Maldives, initiating the United Suvadive Republic. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Kinshasa, Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 – The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Journalists
French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), a 2008 film * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a type of military jacket or tunic * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French (catheter scale), a unit of measurement * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French Revolution (other) * French River (other), several rivers and other places * Frenching (other) Frenching may refer to: * Frenching (automobile), recessing or moul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
