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unusual facts about Aurore



Félix Faure

George Clemenceau's epitaph of Faure, in the same trend, was "Il voulait être César, il ne fut que Pompée" (another wordplay in French; could mean both "he wished to be Caesar, but ended up as Pompey", or "he wished to be Caesar and ended up being blown": the verb "pomper" in French is also slang for performing oral sex on a man); Clemenceau, who was also editor of the newspaper L'Aurore, wrote that "upon entering the void, he Faure must have felt at home".

Nohant-Vic

Aurore Dupin, known as George Sand (1804–1876), granddaughter of the above, who spent most of her life at Nohant.

Sébastien d'Hérin

He founded his own ensemble les Nouveaux Caractères in 2006 with which he has led performances of operas including works of Purcell, Sisyphe amoureux d'Égine from Les Fêtes de Thétis by Colin de Blamont (second act Titon et l'Aurore by Bernard de Bury), and Philémon et Baucis by Haydn.

Serge Postigo

He also appeared in the 2005 film, Aurore, in which he played the role of Telesphore Gagnon, the father of Aurore Gagnon, a real life girl in the 1910s and 1920s who was mistreated and killed by him and his cousin Marie-Anne Houde.


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