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Alain Chartier
Alain Chartier , b. c.1385, d. c.1433, French writer, secretary to Charles VII. His most popular work was the love poem La Belle Dame sans mercy (1424), which provided Keats with a title. Le Quadrilogue invectif (1422), a political pamphlet in vigorous prose, called for French solidarity to comb... Read more
Alain de Lille
Alain de Lille , c.1128-c.1202, French scholastic philosopher, a Cistercian, honored by his contemporaries as the Universal Doctor. He was born in Lille; he taught at Paris and Montpellier before retiring to Cîteaux. Alain attempted to give rational support to the tenets of Christian faith in ... Read more
Alain René Le Sage
Alain René Le Sage , 1668-1747, French novelist and dramatist. His masterpiece, Gil Blas de Santillane (1715-35, tr. by Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, 1749), is a rambling story in the style of Spanish picaresque romances, though unlike them in conception. It i... Read more
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet , 1922-2008, French novelist and filmmaker, b. Brest. Robbe-Grillet is considered the originator of the French nouveau roman [new novel], in which conventional story is subordinated to structure and the significance of objects is stressed above that of human motivation or actio... Read more
Alain Juppé
Alain Juppé , 1945-, French politician, b. Les Landes. A member of the Gaullist Rally for the Republic (RPR), he entered the Inspection des Finances in 1972. A protegé of Jacques Chirac , he was in charge of the Paris city budget during Chirac's mayoralty and later followed his mentor... Read more
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance term used to describe a flowering of African-American literature and art in the 1920s, mainly in the Harlem district of New York City. During the mass migration of African Americans from the rural agricultural South to the urban industrial North (1914-18), many who came to New ... Read more
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras , 1914-96, French author, b. Gia Dinh, Indochina (now Vietnam). Usually grouped with the exponents of the nouveau roman [new novel] (see French literature ), Duras abandoned many of the conventions of the novel form. Her novels usually mix themes of eroticism and death, often tre... Read more
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French literature
French literature writings in medieval French dialects and standard modern French. Writings in Provençal and Breton are considered separately, as are works in French produced abroad (as at Canadian literature, French ). Medieval Literature Until the 12th cent. AD most forms of wri... Read more
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Schneider, Romy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...was cast in a 1958 movie Christine, about romantic intrigues at the 1906 Viennese court, which co-starred her with Alain Delon, one of France's top leading men at the time. The pair fell in love, and upon their engagement Schneider left Germany...

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Delon, Alain
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers DELON, Alain Nationality: French. Born: Sceaux, 8 November 1935 (or 1936). Education...born Canovas), 1964 (divorced 1969), one son; 2) Rosalie, son: Alain-Fabien, daughter: Anouchka. Career: Mid-1950s—worked...
Il Gattopardo
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Fabrizio, Prince of Salina ); Alain Delon (Tancredi ); Claudia Cardinale...Modena, 1977. Rode, Henri, Alain Delon, Paris, 1977. Tornabuoni, Lietta...1981. Zana, Jean-Claude, Alain Delon, Paris, 1981. Bencivenni, Alessandro...
Hakim, Raymond and Robert
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Signoret in Casque d'or proved equally serviceable for Alain Delon in René Clément's Plein Soleil...Catherine Deneuve, but the brothers preferred Alan Bates or Alain Delon. After breaking off the deal, Truffaut discovered that...
Le Samourai
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...editors: Alex Pront, Robert Pouret; sound recordist: René Longuet. Cast: Alain Delon (Jeff Costello ); Francois Perier (The Inspector ); Nathalie Delon (Jane Lagrange ); Cathy Rosier (Valérie ); Jacques Leroy (The Gunman...
Rocco e i Suoi Fratelli
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...music: Nino Rota; costume designer: Piero Tosi. Cast: Alain Delon (Rocco ); Renato Salvatori (Simone ); Annie Girardot...Visconti: Le sens et l'image, Paris, 1984. Sanzio, Alain, and Paul-Louis Thirard, Luchino Visconti: Cin...
L'Eclisse
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Roma; sound: Claudio Maielli and Mario Bramonti; production design: Piero Poletto; music: Giovanni Fusco. Cast: Alain Delon (Riccardo ); Monica Vitti (Vittoria ); Francisco Rabal; Lilla Brignone; Rosanna Rory; Mirella Ricciardi; Louis...

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La soledad de Alain Delon.(El Angel)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 10/16/2005; 700+ words ; ...sus admiradoras, el actor francs Alain Delon, que el 8 de noviembre cumplir...sobre todo, a su estado de nimo. Alain Delon estaba en depresin! Muchos de...Gaspard-Huit, marc el inicio de Alain Delon como el protagonista principal...
A ripe Alain Delon in `Purple Noon'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/3/1996; ; 617 words ; ...s brand of menace. It wasn't Alain Delon's first film, but it was the one...of underworld danger. Made while Delon was more beautiful than most of his...to support his luxurious tastes. Delon, suntanned and menacingly indolent...
Interview: Anthony Delon - Playing the part en famille He's been a jailbird, trouble-maker and womaniser. Now, despite frosty relations with his film star dad Alain, Anthony Delon has followed him into acting. Tobias Jones met him
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/13/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...family's murky past, and Anthony Delon, otherwise supremely confident...because of my name." Anthony Delon is the son of Alain, the French film star who announced...retirement from acting this month. Delon pere is a man who, like De Niro...
Actor Alain Delon involved in car accident, not injured
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 5/14/2002; 181 words ; ...Greece French-born movie star Alain Delon was involved in a car accident on...not injured. Police said the car Delon was riding in collided with a passing...vehicle and was taken to his hotel. Delon is in Greece to attend a fashion...
French actor Alain Delon honored _ in his absence _ at Istanbul Film Festival
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 3/31/2006; 284 words ; ...Festival's lifetime achievement award on behalf of actor Alain Delon, who failed to show up at the last minute. "I am not Alain Delon _ you must be disappointed," Bertrand, a guest of...
PRIMA DONNA DELON.(actor Alain Delon becomes a Swiss citizen)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Swiss News; 6/1/2000; ; 463 words ; French screen idol Alain Delon, a resident of Geneva for 17 years, is now a Swiss citizen. But...hurriedly, claiming that he had "an urgent plane to Paris to catch." Delon has also kept his French nationality.
Alain Delon's `Casanova' may seduce this festival
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/11/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...of 50, he inevitably begins to resemble his mother. Alain Delon, who has been a French sex symbol for more than three...Cyrano," which won the best actor award two years ago. Delon, who has been in and out of fashion in a long series...
Abandona su mujer al actor Alain Delon.(Gente)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 10/1/2002; 394 words ; REFORMA / Redaccin Alain Delon, actor francs de 67 aos que en la dcada de los 70 era considerado...compartir, pues el amor haba desaparecido hace algunos aos. La seora Delon, de 35 aos, se fue a vivir a casa de su madre, en Holanda. En...
Screen Icons: Alain Delon Collection (15) Optimum [pound]27.99 ; DVDs
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/23/2007; ; 263 words ; ...box set. This five-disc collection features Rene Clements simmering thriller Plein Soleil, the film that propelled Alain Delon to stardom. In Antonioni's L'Eclisse, he plays a suave stockbroker who sets his sights on a shy translator, while...
A nationwide smoking ban went into effect in France, yet another blow to the stereotype of the French as a nation of louche but intellectual libertines, Jeanne Moreau and Alain Delon lounging in bed discussing Heidegger through a fug of cigarette smoke.(The Week)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: National Review; 3/5/2007; 628 words ; ...yet another blow to the stereotype of the French as a nation of louche but intellectual libertines, Jeanne Moreau and Alain Delon lounging in bed discussing Heidegger through a fug of cigarette smoke. Ah, ou sont les Gitanes d'antan? Before...