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Uranus (novel)
''Uranus'' (translated as ''The Barkeep of Blémont'') is a French novel by Marcel Aymé published in 1948. It is the third book in a trilogy which covers the pre-war, war, and post-war periods in France. The first is '' Travelingue'' (1948), set in the time of the ''Front Populaire''; the second is '' Le Chemin des écoliers'' (1946), set during the occupation. The third book, ''Uranus'', focuses on post-war France and the purge: the social cleansing which sought to discipline collaborators. People were shaved, humiliated, beaten, and often killed without a fair trial. The true hero of the book, who is also the victim, is Léopold – owner of a coffee shop who discovers his passion for Jean Racine and for Andromaque thanks to lessons which, due to bombings of the school, must now take place in his establishment. The novel was adapted as a film, ''Uranus'' by Claude Berri in 1990. ''Le Chemin des écoliers'' was adapted as the film ''Way of Youth'' by Michel Boisrond Michel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Aymé
Marcel Aymé (; 29 March 1902 – 14 October 1967) was a French novelist and playwright, who also wrote screenplays and works for children. Biography Marcel André Aymé was born in Joigny, in the Burgundy region of France, the youngest of six children. His father, Joseph, was a blacksmith, and his mother, Emma Monamy, died when he was two years old, after the family had moved to Tours. Marcel was sent to live with his maternal grandparents in the village of Villers-Robert, a place where he would spend the next eight years, and which would serve as the model for the fictitious village of Claquebue in what is perhaps the most well-known of his novels, '' La Jument verte''. In 1906 Marcel entered the local primary school. Because his grandfather was a staunch anti-clerical republican, he was looked down upon by his classmates, many of whose parents held more traditional views. Accordingly, Marcel was not baptized before reaching the age of eight, nearly two years after t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Front Populaire
The Popular Front (, ) was an alliance of French Left, left-wing movements in France, including the French Communist Party (PCF), the socialist French Section of the Workers' International, SFIO and the Radical Party (France), Radical-Socialist Republican Party, during the interwar period. Three months after the victory of the Popular Front (Spain), Spanish Popular Front, the Popular Front won the 1936 French legislative election, May 1936 legislative election, leading to the formation of a government first headed by SFIO leader Léon Blum and composed of republican and SFIO ministers. Blum's government implemented various social reforms. The Labour movement, workers' movement welcomed this electoral victory by launching a general strike in May–June 1936, resulting in the negotiation of the Matignon Agreements (1936), Matignon Agreements, one of the cornerstones of Economic, social and cultural rights, social rights in France. All employees were assured a two-week paid vacatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Chemin Des écoliers (novel)
''Le Chemin des écoliers'' (1946), literally "The Way of the Schoolboys," but translated as ''The Transient Hour'', is a novel by French writer Marcel Aymé that takes place during the German occupation of Paris. It is the second book in a trilogy which covers the pre-war, war, and post-war periods in France. The first is '' Travelingue'' (1948), set in the time of the Front Populaire; the third book, ''Uranus'', focuses on post war France and the purge: the social cleansing which sought to discipline collaborators. Plot introduction Pierre Michaud is a tender, scrupulous man, who clings to outdated conceptions of the world. His sons, Frédéric and Antoine, unwittingly teach him how to live again by forcing him to accept more current notions of reality. The novel presents a wide range of characters whose behaviors range from refusal to compromise with the occupier to total collaboration with the Germans. As their father becomes increasingly more corrupt, Frédéric and Anto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Épuration Légale
The (; French for 'legal purge') was the wave of official trials that followed the Liberation of France and the fall of the Vichy regime. The trials were largely conducted from 1944 to 1949, with subsequent legal action continuing for decades afterward. Unlike the Nuremberg trials, the was conducted as a domestic French affair. Approximately 300,000 cases were investigated, reaching into the highest levels of the collaborationist Vichy government. More than half were closed without indictment. From 1944 to 1951, official courts in France sentenced 6,763 people to death (3,910 ) for treason and other offenses. Only 791 executions were carried out, including those of Pierre Laval, Joseph Darnand, and the journalist Robert Brasillach; far more common was ('national degradation') – a loss of citizenship privileges meted out to 49,723 people. Immediately following Liberation France was swept by a wave of executions, public humiliations, assaults and detentions of suspect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ; ; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as '' Phèdre'', '' Andromaque'', and '' Athalie''. He did write one comedy, '' Les Plaideurs'', and a muted tragedy, '' Esther'', for the young. Racine's plays displayed his mastery of the dodecasyllabic (12 syllable) French alexandrine. His writing is renowned for its elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what American poet Robert Lowell described as a "diamond-edge", and the "glory of its hard, electric rage". Racine's dramaturgy is marked by his psychological insight, the prevailing passion of his characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage. Biography Racine was born on 21 December 1639 in La Ferté- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andromaque
''Andromaque'' is a tragedy in five acts by the France, French playwright Jean Racine written in French alexandrine, alexandrine verse. It was first performed on 17 November 1667 before the court of Louis XIV in the Louvre Palace, Louvre in the private chambers of the Queen, Maria Theresa of Spain, Marie Thérèse, by the royal company of actors, called "les Grands Comédiens", with Marquise-Thérèse de Gorla, Thérèse Du Parc in the title role. The company gave the first public performance two days later in the Hôtel de Bourgogne (theatre), Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. ''Andromaque'', the third of Racine's plays, written at the age of 27, established its author's reputation as one of the great playwrights in France. Origins of the play Euripides' play ''Andromache (play), Andromache'' and the third book of Virgil's ''Aeneid'' were the points of departure for Racine's play. The play takes place in the aftermath of the Trojan War, during which Andromache's husband Hector, son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uranus (film)
''Uranus'' is a 1990 French comedy-drama film with Gérard Depardieu about post-World War II recovery in a small French village, as the controlling French Communist Party tries to dispose of Pétain loyalists. It was directed and written by Claude Berri and Arlette Langmann, based on a novel by Marcel Aymé. The film was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Michel Blanc as Gaigneux * Gérard Depardieu as Léopold Lajeunesse * Jean-Pierre Marielle as Archambaud * Philippe Noiret as Watrin * Gérard Desarthe as Maxime Loin * Michel Galabru as Monglat * Danièle Lebrun as Mrs. Archambaud * Fabrice Luchini as Jourdan * Daniel Prévost as Rochard * Myriam Boyer as Mrs. Gaigneux * Ticky Holgado as Mégrin, lawyer * Vincent Grass Vincent Grass (born 9 January 1949) is a Belgian actor. He has appeared in a number of both European and American film and television productions, the first being the Belgian television production ''Siska Van Roosemaal'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Berri
Claude Berri (; 1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor. Early life Born Claude Beri Langmann in Paris, Berri was the son of Jewish immigrant parents. His mother, Beila (née Bercu), was from Romania, and his father, Hirsch Langmann, was a furrier from Poland. His sister was the screenwriter and editor Arlette Langmann. Career Berri won the "Best Film" BAFTA for '' Jean de Florette'', and was also nominated for twelve César Awards, though he never won. Berri also won the Oscar for Best Short Film for '' Le Poulet'' at the 38th Academy Awards in 1966, and produced Roman Polanski's '' Tess'' which was nominated for Best Picture in 1981. Internationally, however, two films in 1986 overshadow all his other achievements. '' Jean de Florette'' and its sequel '' Manon des Sources'' were huge hits. In 1991, his film ''Uranus'' was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Six years later, his film '' Lucie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Way Of Youth
Way or WAY may refer to: Paths * a road, route, trail, path or pathway, including long-distance paths * a straight rail or track on a machine tool (such as that on the bed of a lathe) on which part of the machine slides * Ways, large slipway in shipbuilding, the ramps down which a ship is pushed in order to be launched * Way (vessel), a ship's speed or momentum Religion * "The Way", New Testament term for Christianity * Way of the Cross, Christian devotion that commemorates the events of Good Friday following 14 stations, taking the form of a spiritual pilgrimage through contemplation and meditation of the Passion of Christ * Tao (Chinese: "The Way" 道), a philosophical concept (cf. Taoism) * ''Way'', plural '' Wayob'', spirit companions appearing in mythology and folklore of Maya peoples of the Yucatán Peninsula Places * Lake Way, a dry lake in Western Australia * Way, Mississippi * Way, St Giles in the Wood, historic estate in St Giles in the Wood, Devon Music * WAY- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Boisrond
Michel Jacques Boisrond (9 October 1921 – 10 November 2002) was a French film director and screenwriter. His work spanned five decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s. Career A former apprentice of Jean Delannoy, Jean Cocteau, and René Clair René Clair (; 11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981), born René-Lucien Chomette (), was a French filmmaker and writer. He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films in which comedy was often mingled with fantasy. H ..., Michel Boisrond debuted as a full-fledged director in 1955 with '' Cette Sacrée Gamine'' starring Brigitte Bardot. His works typically fall into the comedy, romance, or comedy drama genres. Filmography References External links * 1921 births 2002 deaths French film directors 20th-century French screenwriters French television directors People from Eure-et-Loir {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
