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4 unusual facts about Amelie


Amélie-Julie Candeille

She was the object of a denunciation and a search was ordered of her residence at rue Neuve des Mathurins, but thanks to the Montagnard deputy Julien de Toulouse (a member of the Committee of General Security) she managed to avoid being labelled a suspect and thus arrested.

Claude Perron

She performed Eva (Nino's colleague) in the 2001 film Amélie, and Marion in the 1996 film Bernie.

Manoush

In 2000 was offered the role of the “nymphomaniac" in Jean-Pierre Jeunet´s Amélie, which opened many doors in the film and TV industry for Manoush, as well as establishing her as “the bad girl” in the roles she played.

Peg Leg Sam

An excerpt of the documentary appears in the French film, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain.


Amalie Winter

Amalie Winter was a pen name used by Amelie von Gross (1803-?), a poet and novelist of Weimar, Germany.

Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy

A goddaughter of Robert E. Lee and a granddaughter of the engineer and senator William Cabell Rives, who had also been American ambassador to France, she was born in Richmond, Virginia and named after her aunt Amélie, a goddaughter of French Queen Marie-Amélie.

Distant Waves

It is there that it is proven that the twins, Amelie and Emma, have their mother's gift of being able to speak to the dead after having Queen Victoria speak to Conan Doyle.

Henriette Amelie de Nerha

Henriette Amelie de Nerha (Brussels, Austrian Netherlands, 1754 - Amsterdam, 19 June 1818), was a Dutch memoir writer, known for her relationship with Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau.

Ondes Martenot

Also Yann Tiersen, well known for writing the music to the film Amélie, often features the use of the ondes Martenot in his music.

Pereza

Other musicians who collaborated on the album were Andrés Calamaro on Amelie and Ariel Rot on Llévame al baile (Take me to the Dance).

Random act of kindness

Karen McCombie's book The Seventeen Secrets of the Karma Club revolves around two girls who (inspired by their favourite film Amélie) start up their 'Karma Club', the intention of which, is to do random acts of kindness anonymously.

Tif et Tondu

Other characters from this period included the young Countess Amélie d'Yeu (known as Kiki), Inspector Ficshusset of Scotland Yard and Inspector Allumette of the French Sûreté, who ably led the official struggle against Choc.

Vuit

Their second single, “Dorm”, has the collaboration of Nil Cardoner and Mikel Iglesias and it has been nominated like other successful groups “Els Catarres”, “Obrint pas” or “Amelie” at the best “Videoclip of the Year” in the Enderrock Awards Enderrock Awards 2012.

William Bent Berczy

In 1832, he settled on the property at Sainte-Mélanie-d'Ailleboust of his wife, Louise-Amélie Panet, who had inherited it from her father, seigneur Pierre-Louis Panet.


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