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2 unusual facts about Jacques Prévert


Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue

#"Autumn Leaves (Les feuilles mortes)" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer)

Omonville-la-Petite

Ormonville is known to be the place where French poet Jacques Prévert (1900–1977) lived the last years of his life and where he is buried.


André François

François initially worked for French leftist newspapers (Le Nouvel Observateur) and illustrated books by authors such as Jacques Prévert, but gradually reached a larger audience, publishing in leading magazines of the United Kingdom (Punch) and the United States (The New Yorker).

Léon la lune

After completing the film Giraud showed it to the poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert who wrote an introduction and asked Henri Crolla to contribute some music to the film.

Pierre François Lacenaire

He is depicted in the French film Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis, 1945), directed by Marcel Carné from a script by Jacques Prévert.


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