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Nouvelles Mythologies
''Nouvelles Mythologies'' is a collection of 57 texts written by authors, journalists and editorialists under the direction of Jérôme Garcin and published in 2007 at Éditions du Seuil to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of the essay ''Mythologies'' by Roland Barthes. List of myths and their authors * ''Le speed-dating'' by Nelly Arcan * ''Michel Houellebecq'' by Pierre Assouline * ''Les 35 Heures'' by Jacques Attali * ''Le 20-Heure'' by Marc Augé * ''Le plombier Polonais'' by Nicolas Baverez * ''Le GPS'' by Frédéric Beigbeder * ''Les journaux gratuits'' by Patrick Besson * ''Les compagnies Low Cost'' by Bessora * ''La nouvelle ève'' by Pascal Bruckner * ''Le patch'' by Boris Cyrulnik * ''Les séries télévisées'' by Charles Dantzig * ''L'iPod'' by Angie David * ''Zidane'' by Jacques Drillon * ''Le sushi'' by Jean-Paul Dubois * ''La Star academy'' by Benoît Duteurtre * ''Les nouveaux amoureux'' by Christine Fiszcher * ''Le botox'' by Sophie Fontanel * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérôme Garcin
Jérôme Garcin (born 4 October 1956) is a French journalist and writer. He heads the cultural section of the '' Nouvel Observateur'', produces and hosts the radio program ' on France Inter, and is a member of the reading committee of the Comédie-Française. Biography Jérôme Garcin was a pupil at the lycée Henri-IV in Paris before undertaking journalism studies. He then worked for the weekly '. He published his first poems in the early eighties. In 1989, he succeeded Pierre Bouteiller to animate the show ''The Masque and the Plume'' of France Inter, of which he later became the producer. He also holds the position of deputy director of the weekly ''Le Nouvel Observateur'' and collaborates with the newspaper '. A former member of the Prix Décembre, he was elected to the Prix Renaudot in March 2010 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane (; born 23 June 1972), popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He most recently coached Spanish club Real Madrid and is one of the most successful coaches in the world. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Zidane was a playmaker renowned for his elegance, vision, passing, ball control, and technique. He received many individual accolades as a player, including being named FIFA World Player of the Year in 1998, 2000 and 2003, and winning the 1998 Ballon d'Or. Zidane started his career at Cannes before establishing himself as one of the best players in the French Ligue 1 at Bordeaux. In 1996, he moved to Italian team Juventus, where he won several trophies including two Serie A titles. He moved to Real Madrid for a world record fee at the time of €77.5 million in 2001, which remained unmatched for the next eight years. In Spain, Zidane wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aude Lancelin
Aude Lancelin (; born 1973 in Tours) is a French journalist. She was previously deputy editor-in-chief at two prominent French weekly magazines: ''Marianne'' from 2011 to 2014 and ''L'Obs'' from 2014 to 2016. She joined Le Média in 2017 and became its director in July 2018. Education Aude Lancelin studied at lycée Henri-IV The Lycée Henri-IV is a public secondary school located in Paris. Along with the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, it is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious and demanding sixth-form colleges ('' lycées'') in France. The school educates more th ... and then at La Sorbonne. She received an ''agrégation de philosophie'' in 1996. Career She started her journalistic career in 2000 with ''Le Nouvel Observateur'' (also referred to as "''L'Obs''") where she wrote as a book critic. She interviewed several philosophers, including Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Claude Michéa, Peter Sloterdijk, Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Zizek. She worked from 2011 at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Lambron
Marc Lambron (born 4 February 1957 in Lyon) is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1993, for ''L'Oeil du silence''. Bibliography * ''Les Menteurs'' * ''L'Impromptu de Madrid'', (Groupe Flammarion, Flammarion, 1989) * ''L'Œil du silence'' (1993) * ''1941'' * ''Étrangers dans la nuit'' * ''Carnet de bal I et II'' * ''La Nuit des masques'' * ''Une saison sur la terre'', (Éditions Grasset, 2006) * ''Mignonne, allons voir...'', (2007) * ''Eh bien, dansez maintenant!'', (2008) * ''La princesse et le pangolin'', (2020) Honours and awards * Prix des Deux Magots for ''L'Impromptu de Madrid'' in 1989 * Prix Femina for ''L'Œil du silence'' in 1993 * Prix Colette for ''La Nuit des masques'' * 2014 Académie française Seat 38 References 1957 births Lycée Henri-IV alumni École Normale Supérieure alumni Sciences Po alumni École nationale d'administration alumni 20th-century French novelists 21st-century French novelists Prix Femina winners Prix des Deux Magots w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Moss
Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is a British model. Arriving at the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. Her collaborations with Calvin Klein brought her to fashion icon status. She is known for her waifish figure, and role in size zero fashion. Moss has had her own clothing range, has been involved in musical projects, and is also a contributing fashion editor for British ''Vogue''. In 2012, she came second on the ''Forbes'' top-earning models list, with estimated earnings of $9.2 million in one year. The accolades she has received for modelling include the 2013 British Fashion Awards acknowledging her contribution to fashion over 25 years, while ''Time'' named her one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2007. A subject of media scrutiny due to her partying lifestyle, Moss was involved in a drug use scandal in September 2005, which led to her being dropped from fashion campaig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Joffrin
Laurent Joffrin (born 30 June 1952) is a French journalist and the editor of the newspaper ''Libération''. ''Challenges'', 12 June 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2017. Selected publications * ''La Gauche en voie de disparition'', , 1984 * ''Coluche, c'est l'histoire d'un mec'', with Serge July and |
Denis Jeambar
Denis Jeambar (born 1948 in Valréas) is a French journalist. Biography Having started his career at '' Paris-Match'' in 1970, he joined ''Le Point'' in 1972, rising to chief of its political staff in 1981. In 1988 he became editor-in-chief, as well as editor-in-chief of the political and cultural staffs. In 1995, Jeambar became general director of Europe 1 and after a few months, of ''L'Express''. In 2001 he became president of the directory of Groupe Express-Expansion. In August 2006, he became director of Seuil editions. According to the French electronic magazine ''La République des Lettres'', Jeambar is ideologically close to neoconservatism, having displayed in the French journal ''L'Express'' "the opinion of the neoconservative, atlantist and zionist french right, mostly represented recently in France by former President Nicolas Sarkozy".Éric Frezel« Denis Jeambar quitte L'Express pour les Éditions du Seuil. » ''La République des Lettres'', 9 août 2006. René-Éri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Grainville
Patrick Grainville (born 1 June 1947 Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados (department), Calvados) is a French novelist. He spent his childhood in Villerville, a small town east of Deauville. An Associate Professor of Letters, he received the Prix Goncourt in 1976, 29 years old, for his fourth novel, ''Les Flamboyants'' ("The Flasher"). He has written extensively on Africa, where he undertook a cooperative mission. He is professor of French at the Lycée Évariste Galois (Sartrouville), Lycée Évariste Galois in Sartrouville. Grainville is also literary critic for ''Le Figaro''. In 2018, he was elected to the Académie française. Biography Grainville spent his childhood in Normandy, regularly going to hunt and poach with his father, businessman and mayor of Villerville. He attended the André Maurois lycee in Deauville, then Malherbe in Caen, before winning admission to his higher education at the Lycée Henri-IV and to the Sorbonne where he prepared for his agrégation, civil servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alix Girod De L'Ain
''Alix'', or ''The Adventures of Alix'', is a Franco-Belgian comics series drawn in the ligne claire style by Jacques Martin. The stories revolve around a young Gallo-Roman man named Alix in the late Roman Republic. Although the series is renowned for its historical accuracy and stunning set detail, the hero has been known to wander into anachronistic situations up to two centuries out of his era. The stories unfold throughout the reaches of the Roman world, including the city of Rome, Gaul, the German frontier, Mesopotamia, Africa and Asia Minor. One voyage goes as far as China. Characters and story Alix is stunning, fearless, generous and devoted to just causes. Born in Gaul, separated from his parents and sold into slavery, he is later adopted by a Roman noble contemporary to Julius Caesar. This mixed background provides Alix with an identity crisis and divided loyalties, especially in the context of the founding myths of French nationalism revolving around Vercingetorix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuelle Béart
Emmanuelle Béart (born 14 August 1963) ''Tecinema.jeuxactu.com''. Retrieved 21 April 2020. is a French film and television actress, who has appeared in over 60 film and television productions since 1972. An eight-time nominee, she won the for the 1986 film '' Manon des Sources''. Her other film roles include '' |
Thierry Gandillot
Thierry is a French male given name, derived from the Germanic "Theodoric". It is the cognate of German "Dietrich" and " Dieter", English Terry, Derek and Derrick, and of various forms in other European languages. It is also a surname. People with the given name * Theodoric of Freiberg (c. 1250-c. 1310), also known as Thierry, early Dominican * Thierry of Chartres (died before 1155), French philosopher * Theodoric I, Duke of Upper Lorraine (ruled 978–1027) * Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine (ruled 1070–1115) * Theuderic II (587–613), king of Burgundy and Austrasia * Thierry, Count of Flanders (c. 1099–1168), also known as Derrick or Thierry of Alsace * Thierry Ambrose (born 1997), French footballer * Thierry Baudet (born 1983), Dutch politician and author * Thierry Boutsen (born 1957), Belgian Formula One race car driver * Thierry Breton (born 1955), European Commissioner for Internal Market, French businessman, former Minister of the Economy * Thierry Brusseau, French track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Fontanel
Sophie is a version of the female given name Sophia, meaning "wise". People with the name Born in the Middle Ages * Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson * Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant (1224–1275), second wife and only Duchess consort of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Lothier Born in 1600s and 1700s * Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (1729–1796), later Empress Catherine II of Russia * Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628–1685), Queen consort of Denmark-Norway * Sophie Blanchard (1778–1819), French balloonist * Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg (1759–1828), second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia * Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères ( 1795–1840), English baroness * Sophie Germain (1776–1831), French mathematician * Sophie Piper (1757–1816), Swedish countess * Sophie Schröder (1781–1868), German actress * Sophie von La Roche (1730–1807), German author Born 1790–1918 * Sophie, Duchess of Alen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
