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4 unusual facts about Française


Beatrice Wood

Eventually her parents agreed to let her study painting and because she was fluent in French, they sent her to Paris where she studied acting at the Comédie-Française and art at the prestigious Académie Julian.

Charles Bodinier

After working for the Comédie-Française he became director of the Théatre d'Application and then of the Théatre La Bodinière.

Fundiciòn Richard Gans

Juventud (1950, Joan Trochut-Blanchard), known in Spain as Escritura Juventud, released by Française as Muriel, digitized by Canada Type as Blanchard.

Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin

In 1960 he travelled to Europe to study experimental drama at the Royal Court Theatre in London and the Comédie-Française in Paris.


Abdelfattah Kilito

Some of the awards Kilito has won are the Great Moroccan Award (1989), the Atlas Award (1996), the French Academy Award (le prix du Rayonnement de la langue française) (1996) and Sultan Al Owais Prize for Criticism and Literature Studies (2006).

Alliance Française of Port Elizabeth

DELF (Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française) and DALF (Diplôme approfondi de langue française) are official qualifications delivered by the French Department of Education to certify competencies of non-French native speakers in the French language.

Ambika Soni

Ambika studied at Welham Girls School,Dehradun and did her M.A. (Hons.) from Indraprastha College, Delhi University, followed by Diploma Superiore en Langue Francaise from Alliance Francaise, Bangkok and Post-Graduate Diploma in Spanish Art and Literature from University of Havana, Cuba.

Ambroise-Marie Carré

He was elected to the Académie française on 26 June 1975, replacing Jean Cardinal Daniélou, a post he held until his death on 15 January 2004 at Ancourt, in France.

Andrei Nakov

L'avant-garde russe - Édition française (Paris, 1984 - traductions allemande, italienne, anglaise et américaine en 1976 et russe, éd. Iskusstvo, Moscou en 1991)

Bernard Sergent

He is researcher of the CNRS and president of the Société de mythologie française.

Caroline Legrand

She was recruited by the French singer François Feldman after being the first winner of the 'Tremplin de la chanson française' that the Parisian nightclub L'Orange Bleue organized.

Charles de Wailly

Noticed by the Marquis de Marigny, brother of Mme de Pompadour and general director of the Bâtiments du Roi, de Wailly worked in the park of Marigny's Château de Menars and, thanks to his support, managed to obtain the commission of a new theatre for the Comédie-Française.

Charles Fechter

Late in 1844 he won the grand medal of the Académie des Beaux-Arts with a piece of sculpture, and made his debut at the Comédie-Française as Seide in Voltaire's Mahomet and Valère in Molière's Tartuffe.

Clérambault

Jules de Clérambault (c. 1660–1714), son of Philippe, ecclesiastic and member of the Académie française

Compagnie française de matériel de chemin de fer

The Compagnie française de matériel de chemin de fer (CFMCF) was a French manufacturer of rail equipment, headquartered in Ivry-sur-Seine, with a factory in Maubeuge.

Daniélou

Jean Daniélou (1905–1974), theologian, historian, cardinal and a member of the Académie française

Derveni krater

Bernard Holtzmann and Alain Pasquier, Histoire de l'art antique : l'art grec, Documentation française, coll.

Dominique Probst

The son of a noted playwright, Gisèle Casadesus, and an actor and director with the Comédie-Française, Lucien Probst, Dominique Probst won the First Prize for Percussion with the National Music Conservatory, Paris, in 1978.

France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981

The French national final to select their entry, Concours de la Chanson Française pour l'Eurovision 1981, was held on 8 March at the TF1 Studios in Paris, and was hosted by television hostess Fabienne Égal.

France national rugby team

France national rugby union team, often nicknamed les bleus, administered by Fédération Française de Rugby.

French Road Cycling Cup

The French Road Cycling Cup (English for Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route) is a road bicycle racing competition under the Fédération Francaise de Cyclisme (French Cycling Federation) each year since 1992.

Galalith

In France, Galalith was distributed by the Compagnie Française de Galalithe located near Paris in Levallois-Perret.

Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender

Examples are titles such as Grand Officier, Commandeur, Officier, Chevalier, Compagnon, Immortel used in the Order of Canada, the National Order of Quebec, France's Legion of Honor and the Académie Française, or Belgium's and Monaco's Order of the Crown.

Gustave Cloëz

Purely orchestral records by Cloëz include 'Intermezzo' by Georges Hugon (Orchestre des Concerts Symphoniques), Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 and Hungarian Fantasy (Orchestre national de la Radiodiffusion Française, Raymond Trouard), Schobert's Concerto in G for harpsichord and orchestra (Ruggero Gerlin), Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp (with Gaston Crunelle, Pierre Jamet), the Hebrides Overture and Danse Macabre.

Hélie de Noailles

De Noailles chaired the French Sons of the American Revolution, Société française des Fils de la Révolution Américaine, and since 2001, he has been mayor of the commune of Épinay-Champlâtreux, succeeding his father, who was mayor from 1932 to 2001.

Henri Prost

Prost was the co-founder in 1911 of the Société française des urbanistes (SFU) with architects Donat Alfred Agache, Mr. Auburtin, A. Bérard, Eugène Hénard (Architect of the City of Paris), Léon Jaussely, A. Parenty, engineer Jean Claude Nicolas Forestier and the landscape architect Edouard Redont.

Jean Auscher

He contributed to the satirical journal Le Rire (“Laughter”); he also illustrated works by Irène Némirovsky, who was rediscovered when Suite Francaise was republished in 2004.

Jeanne Quinault

The other Lazzistes included Jeanne's sister-in-law, formerly Mlle de Seine; her cousin Mlle Balicourt, who had joined the Comédie-Française in 1727; the poet and playwright Alexis Piron; the Comte de Caylus; Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas; and Charles-Alexandre Salley.

Jeunesse Populaire Française

Jeunesse Populaire Française (JPF, English: French Popular Youth) was a fascist youth movement created by Jacques Doriot and connected to his Parti Populaire Français.

Karel Šejna

His 1959 recording of Dvořák's Slavonic Dances was awarded Cithare d´argent - Grand Prix de l´Association Française in Paris 1977.

La Périchole

Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote the French-language libretto based on the 1829 one act play Le carrosse du Saint-Sacrement by Prosper Mérimée, which was revived on 13 March 1850 at the Théâtre-Français.

Laugier

Léonce Laugier, Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic

Les Spectacles de Paris

In it is to be found an annual run-down of the troupes of the Académie royale de musique, of the Comédie-Française, of the Comédie-Italienne, of the Opéra-Comique, of the Foires Saint-Germain et Saint-Laurent and of the Concert Spirituel.

Ligue internationale de la paix

The Luxembourg crisis was peacefully resolved in 1867 by the Treaty of London but in 1870 the Franco-Prussian War could not be prevented so the league dissolved and refounded as the Société française pour l'arbitrage entre nations (League of arbitration between the Nations) in the same year.

Longue paume

The governing body of the sport is the Fédération Française de Longue Paume, with its headquarters in Amiens.

Musée de l'Amérique francophone

Fonded by Monseigneur François de Montmorency-Laval in 1663, the Séminaire de Québec now houses the musée de l'Amérique française, which gives it the distinction of being the oldest museum in Canada.

Musée de la Révolution française de Vizille

The Musée de la Révolution française de Vizille is a departmental museum on the French Revolution, located in the French town of Vizille, 15 kilometres to the south of Grenoble, on the route Napoléon.

Nigel de Gruchy

He attended the University of Paris during May 1968 to gain a Certificate Pratique de Langue Française.

Petroleum University of Technology

The university has sent some of its distinguished students to University of Calgary, Curtin University of Technology and Institute Francaise du petrole (IFP) in France.

Qigang Chen

Creation of Songe d’une femme française, commisstioned by Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and Vandoren SAS and premiere on Jun of 2005 by Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Muhai Tang.

Richaud

Étienne Richaud, Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic

Sharada Srinivasan

She had a photo-exhibition in June 2008 at Alliance Française Bangalore entitled 'Cosmic Dance of Shiva' on art-science-dance perspectives related to South Indian bronzes and the Nataraja.

SOFRETU

SOFRETU (Société française d’études et de réalisations de transports urbains) was a French consulting and project development firm created in 1961 by the RATP.

Somua

Named the JL 12 and equipped with a flex-fuel four cylinder engine, the vehicle did not impress the "Commission des plans de modernisation de l’automobile" which decided in 1946 to merge Somua with Willème and Panhard to form a new company, the Générale française de l'automobile (GFA).

The Great Garrick

Based on the play Ladies and Gentlemen by Ernest Vajda, the film is about the famous eighteenth century British actor David Garrick, who travels to France for a guest appearance at the Comédie Française.

Tokugawa Akitake

Tokyo: Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Française du Japon, Hachette Fujin Gahōsha (アシェット婦人画報社).


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