Luchaire
Luchaire is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Corinne Luchaire (1921–1950), French actress * Denis Jean Achille Luchaire (1846–1908), French historian * Jean Luchaire Jean Luchaire (21 July 1901 – 22 February 1946) was a French journalist and politician who became the head of the French collaborationist press in Paris during the German military occupation. Luchaire supported the ''Révolution nationale'' d ...

Corinne Luchaire
Corinne Luchaire (11 February 1921 – 22 January 1950) was a French film actress who was a star of French cinema on the eve of World War II. Her association with the German occupation led her to be sentenced to "national indignity" after the war, and after writing an autobiography, she died from tuberculosis at age 28. Acting Luchaire left school to join the drama class of Raymond Rouleau and made her acting debut under the name Rose Davel at the age of 16 in a play written by her grandfather, ''Altitude 3 200''. The following year she starred in ''Prison sans barreaux'', which in 1938 was remade in English in London as ''Prison Without Bars'', with her again in the lead role. She spoke English fluently. Mary Pickford called her "the new Garbo." She starred in 1939 in ''Le Dernier Tournant'' (''The Last Bend''), the first version of the novel '' The Postman Always Rings Twice''. Personal life Born Rosita Christiane Yvette Luchaire in Paris, she was the daughter of journalist a ...
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Denis Jean Achille Luchaire
Denis Jean Achille Luchaire (October 24, 1846November 14, 1908) was a French historian. Biography Luchaire was born in Paris. In 1879 he became a professor at Bordeaux and in 1889 professor of mediaeval history at the Sorbonne; in 1895 he became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, where he obtained the Jean Reynaud prize just before his death. His grandnephew was the French collaborationist Jean Luchaire, during World War II. Works The most important of Achille Luchaire's earlier works is his ''Histoire des institutions monarchiques de la France sous les premiers Capétiens'' (1883 and again 1891); he also wrote: *''Manuel des institutions françaises: période des Capétiens directs'' (1892) *''Louis VI le Gros, annales de sa vie et de son règne'' (1890) *''Étude sur les actes de Louis VII'' (1885). His later writings deal mainly with the history of the papacy, and took the form of an elaborate work on Pope Innocent III. This is divided into six part ...
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