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unusual facts about Prix d'Ispahan


Prix d'Ispahan

The meeting had been hastily arranged to honour the Shah of Persia, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, who was making an official visit to Paris.


Les Heures persanes

It is based on the French novelist and traveller Pierre Loti’s Vers Ispahan, detailing his journey across Persia.

Olivier Thouin

After winning the Prix d’Europe and the Canadian Music Centre’s Prize in 1997, he pursued further studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with Ivan Straus.

Prix d'Amérique

Prix d'Amérique is a harness race held at the Vincennes hippodrome in Paris, France.

Robert Ker Porter

After a stay at Shiraz, he returned to Ispahan, and proceeded to Ecbatana and Bagdad, and then, following the route of Xenophon's Katabasis, to Scutari.

Valerie Perrine

In 1975, Perrine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress (Drama) and won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role as comedian Lenny Bruce's wife, stripper Honey Bruce, in Bob Fosse's Lenny (1974).


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