Côtes-d'Armor
The Côtes-d'Armor ( , ; ; , ), formerly known as Côtes-du-Nord until 1990 (, ), is a department in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France. In 2019, it had a population of 600,582.Georges Hanna Sabbagh and the art historian and resistance heroine
Agnès Humbert
Agnès Humbert (12 October 1894 – 19 September 1963) was an art historian, ethnographer and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. She has become well known through the publication of a translation of the diary of her experience ...
Pierre Sabbagh became a war correspondent in the hope of finding his mother Agnès in
World War II
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Nazi
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s, sentenced to slave labour in Germany. In 1944, he travelled into Germany behind the advancing American army, but did not find her until he returned to Paris in 1945.
Pierre Sabbagh presented and directed the first television news in the world on 29 June 1949.
His greatest success was the creation, in 1966, of the programme ''"Au théâtre ce soir"'' ("The Theatre Tonight") following a strike on French television and the success of a Belgian television comedy called ''"La Bonne planque"'', which provoked the appetite of the public for this kind of programme: over 300 plays were produced in the series. To his credit also is the first audiovisual game which reunited France of the 1960s in front of the black-and-white screen: ''"L'Homme du XXe siècle"'' ("20th Century Man"), a game of general cultural questions which went on for many years and which finished with the final ''"Super homme du XXe siècle"'' ("20th Century Superman") which brought together all the previous winners of whom the comedian, Robert Manuel, beat a professor of complementary medicine, Georges Rivault.
He was Director-General of the television network Antenne 2 between September 1971 and July 1972.
His wife was the French television presenter and actress Catherine Langeais.
Publications
*Pierre Sabbagh, Antoine Graziani, ''Fanina'', paperback, Pan Macmillan, 1965
*Pierre Sabbagh, Antoine Graziani (tr. Ellen Hart and Cornelia Brookfield), ''Fanina'', 1966
*Pierre Sabbagh, Antoine Graziani (tr. Marguerite Barnett), ''Fanina, Child of Rome'', hardback, London, Pan Macmillan 1969, (also New York, Bantam, 1968)
*Pierre Sabbagh, ''Le guide de la Pipe et du Tabac'', Paris, Stock, 1973
*Pierre Sabbagh, ''Le guide Marabout de la pipe et du tabac'', Paris, Editions Marabout, 1973
*Jean Sabbagh and Pierre Sabbagh, ''Georges Sabbagh'', Paris, J. Sabbagh, 1981
*Pierre Sabbagh, ''Encore vous, Sabbagh!'', Paris, Stock, 1984
Filmography
*''Le second souffle'', 1959, film, actor (directed by
Yannick Bellon
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*''Monsieur Vernet'', 1988, television film, director
*''La pomme'', 1991, television film, director
*''Le Noir te va bien'', 1991, television film, director
*''L'amour fou'', 1991, television film, director
References
*Humbert, Agnès (tr. Barbara Mellor), ''Résistance: Memoirs of Occupied France'', London, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008 (American title: ''Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War'', Bloomsbury, USA, 2008)
*Sabbagh, Pierre, ''Encore vous, Sabbagh!'', Paris, Stock, 1984