Interposed in the narrative are moments of flashback (to his teenage awakening to a hedonistic life, to his arrest as the petty crook Stavisky in 1926, and to his father's suicide after this family dishonour) and flash-forwards (to his funeral, and to the parliamentary enquiry into the Stavisky affair at which his friends and associates testify ...

Hiroshima mon amour (French pronunciation: [iʁoʃima mɔ̃n‿amuʁ], lit. Hiroshima, My Love, Japanese: 二十四時間の情事, romanized: Nijūyojikan no jōji, lit. 'Twenty-four hour love affair'), is a 1959 romantic drama film directed by French director Alain Resnais and written by French author Marguerite Duras. Resnais' first feature-length work, it was a co-production between …

Bayonne (French: (); Basque: Baiona; Gascon: Baiona; Spanish: Bayona) is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border.It is a commune and one of two subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.. Bayonne is located at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers in the northern part of the cultural region of the …

Story of a Love Affair (1950) Story of a Love Story (1973) The Story of Mankind (1957) The Story of Marie and Julien (2003) Story of My Death (2013) The Story of My Life (2004) The Story of My Wife (2021) Story of O (1975) Story of O - Chapter 2 (1984) Story of a Prostitute (1965) The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) The Story of Sin (1975) Story in ...

Gérard Depardieu (born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, filmmaker, businessman and vineyard owner. He is one of the most prolific actors in film history, having completed over 250 movies since 1967. Filmography

Geography. In 1914, the territory of France was different from today's France in two important ways: most of Alsace and the northeastern part of Lorraine had been annexed by Germany in 1870 (following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871), and the North-African country of Algeria had been established as an integral part of France in 1848. Alsace-Lorraine would be restored …

In 1940, Marshal Pétain was known as a World War I hero, who was the victor of the Battle of Verdun.As the last French prime minister of the Third Republic, he was a reactionary by inclination and blamed the Third Republic's democracy for France's sudden defeat by Germany. He set up a paternalistic authoritarian regime that actively collaborated with Germany, despite …

Charles Boyer, né le 28 août 1899 à Figeac [1] et mort le 26 août 1978 à Phoenix (), est un acteur franco-américain.Après avoir commencé sa carrière en France, il devient l'un des acteurs français les plus célèbres à Hollywood durant les années 1930 et 1940. Se montrant aussi à l'aise dans les mélodrames, Le Jardin d'Allah (1936), Casbah (1938) et Elle et lui (1939), que dans ...

Pierre Jules Cot (20 November 1895, in Grenoble – 21 August 1977, Paris), was a French politician and leading figure in the Popular Front government of the 1930s.. Born in Grenoble into a conservative Catholic family, he entered politics as an admirer of the World War I conservative leader Raymond Poincaré, but moved steadily to the left over the course of his career.

Charles Boyer (* 28.August 1899 in Figeac, Frankreich; † 26. August 1978 in Phoenix, Arizona) war ein französischer Schauspieler.Den Höhepunkt seiner Karriere erlebte er in den 1930er und 1940er Jahren in Hollywood, als er in Liebesfilmen häufig den Leading Man spielte. Im Laufe seiner Karriere erhielt Boyer vier Oscar-Nominierungen als bester Hauptdarsteller; bei der …