Tag: Jean
Jean Perzel: the century-old saga of a visionary of light
It’s the story of a little guy from Bavaria, promoted “prince of modern light” in the Paris of the Roaring Twenties. A consecration for the native of Bruck, Germany, who…
Louis de Funès and Jean Lefebvre got angry because of the Gendarmes in Saint-Tropez
A cult comedy par excellence, the saga of the Gendarmes experienced some tensions behind the scenes and particularly an irreversible estrangement between Louis de Funès and Jean Lefebvre. Hilarious on…
Jean Lassalle accused of rape: what are the charges?
LASALLE. Jean Lassalle is accused of rape and sexual assault by a woman. The Bordeaux prosecutor’s office has opened a preliminary investigation against the politician who denies the charges against…
Avignon Festival, Jean Vilar told by his correspondence
An emblematic figure in the world of culture, Jean Vilar maintained a correspondence with many artistic and intellectual personalities. In “Jean Vilar, an epistolary biography”, Violaine Vielmas unveils and highlights…
Pensions: “The COR is not a serious organization, it must be abolished”, by Jean Peyrelevade
While the latest report from the Pensions Orientation Council published this week considers that the recent reform will be insufficient to bring pensions back into the green by 2030, increasingly…
From Jean Moulin to Missak Manouchian: the Pantheon, a political tool of the Fifth Republic
He will be the first foreign Resistance fighter to enter the Pantheon: on February 21, 80 years to the day after his death, Missak Manouchian will join Voltaire, Emile Zola,…
Legendarily bad video game adaptation with Jean Claude Van Damme, which was filmed even worse 15 years later
In the 90s and early 2000s, fight games were a mega trend. So it’s no wonder that in 1994 Streetfighter – The Decisive Battle, the film adaptation of a particularly…
Literature: between childhood nostalgia and provisional identity, with Mauritian Jean Fanchette
A great Mauritian voice of the 20th century, Jean Fanchette published most of his poetic work in France where he worked and lived from the age of 19. He had…
Emmanuel Macron pays tribute to Jean Moulin, thousands of demonstrators kept at a distance
After commemorating May 8, 1945 in Paris, on the almost empty Champs-Élysées, Emmanuel Macron went to Lyon on Monday afternoon. The President of the Republic paid tribute to the resistance…
Jean Azarel, Joachim B. Schmidt and Marouane Bakhti: books not to be missed
“You will say that I have fallen”. Lives and Deaths of Jack-Alain Léger By Jean Azarel. Seguier, 310 pages, €23. The rating of L’Express: 3/5 YOU WILL SAY I HAVE…