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7 unusual facts about Boileau


Boileau-Narcejac

1967 – Choice Cuts, USA, abandoned Arthur P. Jacobs production with James Bridges screenplay (novel Et mon tout est un homme).

Boileau, Quebec

It is also possible that it was named in honour of any of several noted persons called Ponsonby, including the Postmaster General of Canada of 1784, William Ponsonby (1744-1806).

Francisco Javier Alegre

Among them are the "Alexandriadas" (1773, Italy), the "Iliad" in Latin (Rome, 1788), "Homeri Batrachiomachia" in Latin (Mexico, 1789), together with fragments of Horace and a good translation into Spanish of the first three cantos of the "Art Poétique" of Boileau.

La Grande Bouffe

Their breakfast next day is interrupted by the arrival of a school class who would like to visit the garden of the villa to see the famous "lime-tree of Boileau", a tree under which the French poet used to sit while looking for inspiration.

Leonard Welsted

In Swift's 1733 On Poetry: A Rhapsody, he first compared Welsted's bad versifying with Stephen Duck's bad rhymes and then Welsted's "translation" of Longinus's Peri Hupsos, which was actually a translation of Boileau's French translation.

Mathurin Régnier

His keen and accurate knowledge of human nature and even his purely literary qualities extorted the admiration of Boileau.

The Battle of the Books

Swift's Battle owed a great deal to Boileau's Le Lutrin, although it was not a translation.


Albert Dubout

Dubout continued on to illustrate numerous editions of books by Boileau, Beaumarchais, Mérimée, Rabelais, Villon, Cervantes, Balzac, Racine, Voltaire, Rostand, Poe, and Courteline.

Antonio Escobar y Mendoza

They were also ridiculed in witty verses by Molière, Boileau and La Fontaine, and gradually the name Escobar came to signify in France any person who is adroit in making the rules of morality harmonize with his own interests, a casuist.

Boileau baronets

The first Baronet's ancestor Charles Boileau, Baron of Castelnau and St Croix, fled to England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

Carl Boileau

Boileau collected thirty thousand signatures to launch city-wide discussions on urban agriculture; in early 2013, city councillor Marvin Rotrand indicated that many of the ideas brought forward at the resulting public meetings had already been or would be incorporated into city policy.

Douglas Riva

A specialist in the music of Granados, Riva is the Assistant Director of the 18 volume critical edition of the Complete Works for Piano of Enrique Granados, directed by Alicia de Larrocha and published by Editorial Boileau, Barcelona, 2001, which is the first complete catalog of the composer's works for piano.

François Chauveau

Chauveau left nearly 1,600 works (frontispices, vignettes...), including illustrations for works by Mademoiselle de Scudéry (he engraved the famous Map of Tendre and the frontispiece for her Artamène), Scarron, Molière, Racine and Boileau.

François Gourd

In 1983 Gourd opened a bar called Les Foufounes Électriques, along with Norman Boileau and Bernard Paquet — 2 of Gourd's friends from a musical theatre of which he was a member.


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