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Paula Brébion
Paula Brébion (26 May 1861 – 21 July 1952) was a French singer and actress. Brébion began her stage career at the age of 6, first learning the trade in Paris from her mother, Marie Constance Joséphine Hersilie Brébion, who was also an actress, and then with Mime artist, mime Louis Rouffe and his troupe in Marseille. She had a huge success in the big concert halls of the French capital and in the provinces, performing light, saucy and patriotic songs, several dozen of which were her own creations. She was nicknamed "la Reine" (the Queen) and "l'Etoile de la Scala" (the Star of La Scala). She then turned to the theatre and performed in numerous plays in France and abroad. Early life and family Paula Brébion was the daughter of Marie Constance Joséphine Hersilie Brébion, an 18-year-old dramatic artist, and an unknown father. She was born in Paris and originally called Marie. Her mother's sister was Maria Blanche, known as Blanche Brébion,date de naissance indiquée dans l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toulon
Toulon (, , ; , , ) is a city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Located on the French Riviera and the historical Provence, it is the prefecture of the Var (department), Var department. The Commune of Toulon has a population of 176,198 people (2018), making it France's 13th-largest city. It is the centre of an urban unit with 580,281 inhabitants (2018), the ninth largest in France by population. Toulon is the second largest French city by urban area on the Mediterranean coast after Marseille. Toulon is an important centre for naval construction, fishing, wine making, and the manufacture of aeronautical equipment, armaments, maps, paper, tobacco, printing, shoes, and electronic equipment. The military port of Toulon is the major navy, naval centre on France's Mediterranean coast, home of the French aircraft carrier ''French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, Charles de Gaulle'' and her battle group. The French Mediterranean Fleet is based in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Café Des Ambassadeurs
The Café des Ambassadeurs, also known as Les Ambassadeurs or Les Ambass', was a café-concert located in the Champs-Élysées district, at 1 Avenue Gabriel, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, which opened around 1830 and closed in 1929. ''Les Ambassadeurs'' had its heyday during the Belle Époque in Paris when the café-concert became a regular destination of some of the best known figures of art and the demi-monde in Paris. Painters such as Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec portrayed artists and visitors at the ''caf'conc'' and almost every vaudeville and music hall entertainer that mattered in those days performed in ''Les Ambass' ''. In the 1920s, the venue was transformed into an American-style music hall, which had American and African-American artists, singers, dancers and jazz orchestras performing to attract the growing number of American tourists in Paris. Early years The ''Café des Ambassadeurs'' was founded in 1764 as an open-air café near the hotels designe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Mayol
Félix Mayol (18 November 1872 – 26 October 1941) was a French singer and entertainer. Career Mayol was born in Toulon, France. His parents, amateur singers and actors, arranged for Felix to make his debut stage at six years of age. In 1895, he went to the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris where he began a career in entertainment that spanned more than forty years. He adopted a campy effeminate manner on stage as part of his theatrical persona.Michael Freedland, ''Maurice Chevalier'', Morrow, 1981, p. 28. He sang the famous song "Viens poupoule, viens poupoule, viens...", and performed many songs by Théodore Botrel. In the early years of the 20th century some of Mayol's performances were captured by an early form of talking picture. He would record his voice, then the motion picture camera would film him as he lip-synced to the record. Several of his Phonoscènes exist. Other activities The teenaged Maurice Chevalier took a risk by impersonating Mayol in small-time cafe entert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Fragson
Harry Fragson (2 July 1869 – 31 December 1913), born Léon Philippe Pot, was a British music hall singer, songwriter and comedian. Born in London of French parentage, he moved to Paris, where he developed an act imitating French music hall performers. The act was popular, and allowed him to introduce his own material. He returned to London in 1905, and became popular in pantomime. He is perhaps best known for his song " Hello, Hello, Who's Your Lady Friend?" which he recorded shortly before his death in 1913, when he was shot by his father in Paris. Biography Fragson was born Léon Philippe Pot at 4 Old Compton Street, Soho, London. He was the son of the hotelier Victor Pot and his wife Léontine Pot ( Winand). In 1871, the family moved to 42 Greek Street, Soho. He was educated for some time in Antwerp, and at the start of his career took the name "Frogson" (from the pejorative slur for a French person), before accepting advice to modify it to "Fragson", which he often use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Fougère
Eugénie Fougère (12 April 1870 – 6 February 1946) was a French vaudeville and music hall dancer and singer. She was often called a soubrette − a flirtatious or frivolous woman − known for her eye-catching outfits, frisky movements, suggestive demeanor, and for her rendition of the popular "cakewalk dance," which in her own style included "negro" rhythms and paces.Gordon, ''Dances With Darwin''p. 236/ref> She should not be confounded with the frequenter of the French demi-monde also named Eugénie Fougère (demimondaine), Eugénie Fougère although the two knew each other, mixed in the same circles and even lived in the same street in Paris for a while. The lyrics interconnected African and American dance, monkeys and epilepsyGordon, ''Dances With Darwin''p. 177/ref> – reflecting the racist and colonial attitudes that prevailed at the time.Gordon, ''Dances With Darwin''p. xii A popular theorist of "negro dance," Andre Levinson, observed that it was impossible for European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Thibaud
Anna Thibaud (14 December 1861Acte de naissance n°37, page 49/263, série du greffe: naissances, mariages, décès, publications de mariage (3E/6558) – 18 April 1948décès 1948, mairie du 17e, acte n°808, Archives Départementales de Paris, cote 17D 282) was a French singer. She had a wide repertoire, attractive stage presence and excellent voice. She performed at important venues in Paris during a lengthy career. Life Birth There is confusion about her date of birth. François Thibaudot, shoemaker, married Josephine Breton on November 6, 1850, in Saint-Aubin, Jura. From this wedding was born a first Marie-Louise Thibaudot on December 14, 1861. Josephine Breton died on August 12, 1865, in Saint-Aubin. Widowed, François then married Anne Renaud on 7 November 1866 in the same town. From this marriage was born a second Marie-Louise Thibaudot on July 30, 1867: She married on September 3, 1887, at the town hall of the 7th arrondissement of Paris with a sales representative nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dranem
Dranem (23 May 1869 – 13 October 1935) was a French comic singer, music hall, stage and film actor. History Born Armand Ménard, in Paris, he began working as an apprentice jeweler in a local shop before embarking on a career in entertainment. Adopting the singular stage name of Dranem, a palindromic anagram of "Menard," he made his debut performance in 1894. In 1895, he performed with fellow newcomers Félix Mayol and Max Dearly in the "Concert Parisien" from where he went on to become a leading music hall entertainer in his own comic absurdist genre. In 1899, he was signed to perform at the famous Eldorado Club, where he appeared regularly for the next twenty years. Dranem's comedic singing routine brought a loyal following, and his work made him a very wealthy man. In 1910, he purchased the Château de Ris in the town of Ris-Orangis south of Paris and established a charitable foundation to operate the large building as a senior citizens home for retired performers. On the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
Count, ''Comte'' Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the sometimes decadent affairs of those times. Born into the aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec broke both his legs during adolescence, leaving him with a stunted appearance. In later life, he developed an affinity for brothels and prostitutes that directed the subject matter for many of his works, which record details of the late-19th-century bohemian lifestyle in Paris. He is among the painters described as being Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionists, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Georges Seurat also commonly considered as belonging in this loose group. In a 2005 auction at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés () is a Communes of France, commune in Val-de-Marne, the southeastern suburbs of Paris, suburbs of Paris, France, from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. History Abbey Saint-Maur-des-Fossés owes its name to Saint-Maur Abbey, founded in 638 by Queen Nanthild, regent for her son Clovis II, at a place called ''Fossati'' in Medieval Latin and ''Les Fossés'' in modern French language, French, meaning "the moats". This place, located at the narrow entrance of a loop where the river Marne (river), Marne made its way round a rocky outcrop,"Saint-Maur au fil du temps" was probably named after the moats of an ancient Celts, Celtic oppidum and later a Roman Empire, Roman Castra, castrum; the site was known in medieval documents as ''Castrum Bagaudarum'', at a time when the mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
