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Lycée François-Ier (Fontainebleau)
The Lycée François-Ier, in long form Lycée International François-Ier, is a public secondary school located in Fontainebleau, France. In addition to the mainstream public French curriculum, the institution houses private English and German-language sections through which students can take the ''option internationale du baccalauréat'' (OIB), the international variant of the French ''baccalauréat''. History Plans to establish a municipal school in Fontainebleau were first tabled in 1874 under president Patrice de MacMahon and minister of public instruction Arthur de Cumont, the objective being to provide education for the sons of officers. After a competition was held in 1877, Henri Proust was officially commissioned in 1880 to design the new institution, which was founded at the site of a house Le Clos de Bel-Air (originally built in 1840) and would fall under the category of lycée. The school was named Collège Carnot in 1888 after president Lazare Carnot. In 1910 under p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fontainebleau
Fontainebleau ( , , ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Functional area (France), metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located south-southeast of the Kilometre zero#France, centre of Paris. Fontainebleau is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture of the Seine-et-Marne Departments of France, department, and it is the seat of the Arrondissement of Fontainebleau, ''arrondissement'' of Fontainebleau. The commune has the largest land area in the Île-de-France region; it is the only one to cover a larger area than Paris itself. The commune is closest to Seine-et-Marne Prefecture Melun. Fontainebleau, together with the neighbouring commune of Avon, Seine-et-Marne, Avon and three other smaller communes, form an urban area of 36,724 inhabitants (2018). This urban area is a satellite of Paris. Fontainebleau is renowned for the large and scenic Forest of Fontainebleau, a favourite weekend getaway for Parisians, as well as for the historic Palace of Fontainebleau, Château ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Casiraghi
Pierre Rainier Stefano Casiraghi (born 5 September 1987) is the younger son and youngest of three children of Caroline, Princess of Hanover, and her second husband, Stefano Casiraghi. He is the maternal-line grandson of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and American actress Grace Kelly. Casiraghi is eighth in the line of succession to the Monegasque throne, following his twin cousins Hereditary Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella, his mother, his brother Andrea, nephews Alexandre and Maximilian Casiraghi and niece India Casiraghi. Early life and education Casiraghi was born on 5 September 1987 at Princess Grace Hospital Centre, in La Colle, Monaco. He is named after his maternal great-grandfather, Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois, his maternal grandfather, Prince Rainier III, and his father. His godparents are his uncle, Prince Albert II, and his aunt by marriage Laura Sabatini Casiraghi, the wife of his uncle Daniele. Casiraghi was three years old at the time of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Debord
Guy-Ernest Debord (; ; 28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International. He was also briefly a member of '' Socialisme ou Barbarie''. Debord is best known for his 1967 work, '' The Society of the Spectacle'', alongside his direction to the Letterist and Situationist Magazines. Biography Early life Guy Debord was born in Paris in 1931. Debord's father, Martial, was a pharmacist who died when Debord was young. Debord's mother, Paulette Rossi, sent Debord to live with his grandmother in her family villa in Italy. During World War II, the Rossis left the villa and began to travel from town to town. As a result, Debord attended high school in Cannes, where he began his interest in film and vandalism. As a young man, Debord actively opposed the French war in Algeria and joined in demonstrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Tirard
Laurent Tirard (18 February 1967 – 5 September 2024) was a French film director and screenwriter. Life and career Laurent Tirard was born on 18 February 1967 in Roubaix, France. He grew up admiring American films, such as those by Steven Spielberg. Later, he studied filmmaking at New York University, worked as a script reader for Warner Bros. Studios, became a journalist, and worked for the French film magazine ''Studio'' for six years. There, he conducted a series of interviews on filmmaking, published as a book titled ''Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors.'' From Woody Allen to David Cronenberg, the Coen brothers to Lars Von Trier, all film directors run up against the same essential concerns: how to direct actors, for example, or whether to pre-plan camera angles. In interviewing these and 16 other notable filmmakers, Tirard found notable affinities between seemingly dissimilar directors. The book has also been published in Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Thompson (actor)
Luke Thompson (born 4 July 1988) is an English actor. He is known for his role as Benedict in the Netflix period drama ''Bridgerton'' (2020–present) and has also appeared in the BBC One drama '' In the Club'' (2014–2016). He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in the play '' A Little Life'' in 2024. Early life and education Thompson was born in Southampton and brought up in France from the age of two. His father was an engineer and his mother a teacher. He is one of three children. He attended the Lycée International François-Ier in Fontainebleau, a French school with an Anglophone section, from 1997 to 2005, where he became a native French speaker. He is also proficient in Italian. Upon returning to England in 2006, Thompson spent a year with the Year Out Drama Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. He studied English and Drama at the University of Bristol and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, graduating in 2013. Career Thomps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Thomas
Pascal Thomas (born 2 April 1945) is a French screenwriter and film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role .... His 1999 film '' The Dilettante'' was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' Pleure pas la bouche pleine!'' (1973) * '' Les Maris, les Femmes, les Amants'' (1989) * '' La pagaille'' (1991) * '' La Dilettante'' (1999) * '' Day Off'' (2001) * '' Mon petit doigt m'a dit...'' (2005) * '' L'heure zéro'' (2007) * '' Le crime est notre affaire'' (2008) * '' Valentin Valentin'' (2015) References External links * 1945 births Living people French film directors French male screenwriters French screenwriters {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Rabiniaux
Roger Rabiniaux (3 December 1914 – 27 October 1986Notice « Bellion (Roger, Nicolas, Pierre) » (né en 1914), pages 78 et 79 ''in'' René Bargeton, ''Dictionnaire biographique des préfets'' (septembre 1870mai 1982), Paris, Archives nationales (France), 1994, 555 pages, 26 cm .) was a French writer and poet. Biography Rabiniaud was a pupil at the lycée of Fontainebleau and at Lycée Lakanal of Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine. A teacher after having studied literature and law, then public works official (1940–1942), he was an editor in the Office of the Secretary of State for Communications Jean Berthelot. He engaged into the Résistance and entered the prefectural administration of Vichy France in 1942. He published poems in various literary magazines before publishing the five volumes of ''Un jeune homme des années trente'' - including ''Le Soleil des dortoirs'' - and manifested himself brilliantly in 1951 by publishing ''L'Honneur de Pédonzigue'', a book sponsored by M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleymo
Pleymo is a French nu metal band formed by Mark Maggiori, Benoît Julliard, Fred Ceraudo, and Mathias Borronquet in Paris in 1997. Pleymo has sold over 100,000 albums to date. The band's name apparently originates from the lead singer once having a haircut as a child that was similar to that of Playmobil figures. History Beginning, ''Keçkispasse?'' and record deal (1997–2000) Pleymo started in 1997 under the name of "Pleymobill", but the name was eventually shortened to the name they have now when the band's lineup expanded to five due to the inclusion of turntablist DJ Frank (Frank Bailleul). The same year, Mathias, the guitarist at the time, exited the band and Erik De Villoutreys eventually replaced Mattias as the guitarist. Little by little the group was growing and then caught the attention of the producer Stéphane Kraemer. On 15 June 1999 they released their first album called '' Keçkispasse?'' signed to the label Wet Music. Epic (a branch of Sony) offered the ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Maggiori
Mark Maggiori (born June 16, 1977) is a French people, French-American Painting, painter, graphic designer, Technical drawing, draftsman, musician, music video director and lead vocalist of the nu metal band Pleymo. He is noted for paintings of Cowboy, American cowboys, Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans and the Southwestern United States, American Southwest. Early life and education Maggiori was born in Fontainebleau in 1977. His father is :fr:Robert Maggiori, Robert Maggiori, a French philosopher and journalist. At the age of 15, during his first visit to the United States, Maggiori went on a month-long road trip from New York City to San Francisco and visited several National Parks and other sites in the Southwestern United States. He later cited that trip as the beginning of his fascination with the Southwest and the inspiration behind his Western art. Maggiori graduated from the Académie Julian in Paris, where he was formally trained in academic drawin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Mahut
Philippe Mahut (; 4 March 1956 – 8 February 2014) was a French professional footballer who played as a defender. From 1974 to 1993, Mahut played for seven football clubs – all of them in his native France – and scored 30 goals in 654 competitive club matches. He earned nine international caps for the France national team during the early 1980s. Mahut was described as a "sturdy defender" with "a heading ability above average". Early life Philippe Mahut was born in the hamlet of Rosières, which is a part of the commune of Lunery, in the department of Cher. His family had Polish ancestry. He grew up in that hamlet, raised by his grandmother. Philippe's father was an amateur football player and was very good at it, hence Philippe's talent for playing football. Philippe Mahut started his youth football career at AS Montferrandaise when he was nine years old. He subsequently settled in Fontainebleau, where he was raised by his uncle and aunt. Philippe Mahut did his compu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Macias
Gaston Ghrenassia (born 11 December 1938), known by his stage name Enrico Macias, is a French singer, songwriter and musician. Early years Gaston Ghrenassia was born to a Sephardic Jews, Sephardic Jewish family. His father, Sylvain Ghrenassia (1914–2004), was a violinist in an orchestra that played primarily ''malouf'', Andalusian classical music. Gaston played the guitar from childhood, and started playing with the Cheikh Raymond Leyris Orchestra at age 15. He pursued a school teacher career, but continued playing the guitar. In 1961, the Algerian War of Independence was raging, and the situation became untenable for the European colonizers of Constantine. The assassination in 1961 of his father-in-law and musician Cheikh Raymond, Cheikh Raymond Leyris by the National Liberation Front (Algeria), National Liberation Front (FLN) was of immense effect on Gaston Ghrenassia, and appears to have been due to his opposition to the independence of Algeria from France and pro-Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Lecocq
Pascal Lecocq (born 4 June 1958) is a French Painting, painter and set designer. He is the ''Painter of Blue '' who paints on high backcloths of sky or deep sea, as a stage director, figures, horses, divers, allegories, architectures, Venice, and ancient ruins, between hyperrealism and surrealism with a whimsical sense of humor. He is the author of the diving world renowned picture: ''The Matador''. Biography Pascal Lecocq was born in Fontainebleau, France, on 4 June 1958. Pascal attended, while in high school, ''Ecole Comairas'' art school, from the Fondation Taylor, in Fontainebleau, from 1973 to 1977, as a pupil of Yvonne Bouisset Mignon (daughter of the painter Abel Mignon (1861-1936) who studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme; spouse of the painter Jacques Bouisset (1888-1977), the son of the famous author of the poster ''Chocolat Meunier '' Firmin Bouisset (1859-1925). His first solo exhibition took place in Fontainebleau in January 1977. He then obtained a PhD degree of Arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
