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9 unusual facts about Renaud


Agnès Bihl

Inspired by Brel, Brassens, Renaud and Anne Sylvestre, Agnès Bihl appreciates the lyrics of French song.

Amoureux de Paname

Amoureux de Paname is the title by which the unnamed debut album from French singer-songwriter Renaud is commonly known.

Benoît Dorémus

His songs, mostly influenced by Eminem or the famous French singer-songwriter Renaud, very popular since the '70s, often describe his bipolarity between music and literature, Philippe Djian being his favourite author concerning the latest.

Claude Pujade-Renaud

Since that time she has published over twenty novels, short-story and poetry collections, as well as combined creative works with long-time partner Daniel Zimmermann.

Laisse béton

French singer-songwriter Renaud's second unnamed studio album is commonly known as Laisse béton, although it is sometimes referred to as Place de ma mob after the wall inscription on the album cover.

Ma gonzesse

Ma Gonzesse (French slang for My Chick) is the name by which the third untitled studio album of French singer-songwriter Renaud is commonly referred to.

Olivier Séchan

He had a wife and six children, among them the novelist Thierry Séchan and the famous singer Renaud Séchan, known simply throughout France as Renaud.

Renaud-Bray

The chain was founded in 1965 by Pierre Renaud and Edmond Bray, with the opening of its first store on Côte-des-Neiges Road in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The chain began its expansion in 1978, opening other branches in Montreal (on Laurier Avenue, Saint Denis Street, Park Avenue, and Peel Street).


Alain Lanty

He has composed songs for a great number of French artists including Renaud, Florent Pagny, Marc Lavoine, Dani, Régine, Maurane, Hélène Ségara, Jean-Luc Lahaye.

Angers Cathedral

However, Geoffroy de Tours, the Bishop of Angers from 1081 to 1093, ordered the reconstruction of the Cathedral, which continued under the supervision of his successors, Renaud de Martigné (1102–1125), Ulger (1125–1148) and Normand de Doué (1148–1153).

Armand Renaud

Renaud's poems, often influenced by Persian and Japanese poetry, were set to music by Camille Saint-Saëns and Reynaldo Hahn.

Battle of Blain

Erispoe's troops had arrived at Messac and were in the process of crossing the Vilaine when Renaud launched his surprise attack.

Boucan d'enfer

But the song Manhattan-Kaboul, a duet with Belgian Axelle Red, became the most recognised song of the album, and one of Renaud's biggest hits (the single spent five months in the French top twenty with two weeks at number 2).

C'était ici

The album is noteworthy because of the many collaborators appearing in the performances such as the 35-member orchestral group Synaxis, conducted by Guillaume Bourgogne, Claire Pichet, Christine Ott, Christian Quermalet, Marc Sens, Nicholas Stevens, Jean-François Assy, Renaud Lhoest, Oliver Tilkin, Ronan le bars, Les Têtes Raides, Dominique A and Lisa Germano.

Camille Babut du Marès

Camille worked with other world famous violinists such as Itzhak Rashkovsky, Zakhar Bron, Boris Kuschnir, Pierre Amoyal, Raphaël Oleg, Gérard Poulet, Philippe Graffin, David Grimal, Renaud Capuçon, Miriam Fried, Suzanne Gessner, Boris Belkin, Felix Andrievsky, Mikhail Kopelman, Liviu Prunaru, Yuri Zhislin, Leonid Kerbel and Roman Nodel.

Chansons pour les pieds

The album was recorded at the Théâtre du Cratère d'Alès by Eric Van de Hel and Gildas Lointier, assisted by Renaud Van Welden.

Colette de Jouvenel

She was the half-sister of Renaud de Jouvenel and Bertrand de Jouvenel.

Count Renaud de la Frégeolière

Count Renaud de la Frégeolière (29 April 1886 - 16 April 1981) was a French author who became the first president of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT - International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation), serving from 1923 to 1960.

Crime Spree

Crime Spree is a 2003 Canadian-British film written and directed by Brad Mirman starring Gérard Depardieu and Harvey Keitel, as well as French singers Johnny Hallyday and Renaud.

Drew Renaud

Renaud wrote almost all of his projects, including the music video for Pensive – Live Fast.

En Toute Intimité

On the CD and DVD, alongside some of Fabian's most remarkable hits and album tracks, are classics such as: Dalla's "Caruso" (performed by Fabian many times before); Jevetta Steele's "Calling you" from the Bagdad Café soundtrack; French singer Renaud's "Mistral Gagnant"; and a medley from the worldwide known Francophone musical "Starmania".

Erispoe

Ambushed by Count Renaud, Erispoe was badly defeated at the initial engagement at Messac.

François-Marie Renaud d'Avène des Meloizes

Captain François-Marie Renaud d'Avène des Méloizes (1655– April 22, 1699) was a French Cavalry officer who came to New France in 1685 in command of the Troupes de Marine and led the successful expedition against the Senecas.

Jean Galfione

On 21 June 2009, Renaud Lavillenie broke Galfione's French national outdoor pole vault record of 5.98m (set in Amiens on 23 July 1999), with a jump of 6.01m.

Jean Servais

In the 1950s and 1960s, Servais rejoined the Renaud-Barrault theatre troupe for several plays, including La Répétition ou l'Amour puni (1950), Volpone (1955), and Marat/Sade (1966).

Manhattan-Kaboul

"Manhattan-Kaboul" is a French song written by Renaud and composed by Jean-Pierre Bucolo, sung by Renaud in duo with Axelle Red, in the album Boucan d'enfer, released in 2002.

Maurice Renaud

Maurice Renaud made 52 extant records, 45 of them for The Gramophone Company (the forerunner of HMV) and seven for Pathé.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes

In the seven rooms of the upper gallery are Flemish and Dutch paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries (Rubens, Carel Fabritius, Pieter van Aelst (1502–1550), Leonaert Bramer) and French paintings by Renaud Levieux, Jean-François de Troy, Pierre Subleyras and Paul Delaroche's Oliver Cromwell with the corpse of Charles I.

Nicolas de Lenfent

They find work in a small theatre on the Boulevard du Temple, called Renaud's, where Lestat begins acting, and Nicolas plays the violin.

Paul Renaud

In 2004 Budd Root's Basement comics published Paul Renaud 's Cavewoman: The Movie comic book starting his production for the USA comics.

Pierre Coffin

In 2013, Coffin directed Despicable Me 2, with Renaud, and is directing for 2015 with Kyle Balda a Despicable Me spin-off, Minions.

Reginald de Dunstanville, 1st Earl of Cornwall

Reginald de Dunstanville (Reginald FitzRoy, Rainald), Earl of Cornwall (French: Renaud de Donstanville or de Dénestanville) (c. 1110, Dunstanville, Kent, England – 1 July 1175, Chertsey, Surrey, England), High Sheriff of Devon, Earl of Cornwall, was an illegitimate son of Henry I of England and Lady Sybilla Corbet.

Renaud d'Herbauges

The County of Herbauges consisted of three pagi south of the Loire: Arballicus (Herbauges), Metallicus (the Mauges), and Teofalicus (Tiffauges) and was separate from the County of Poitou, of which Renaud also appears to have been Count.

Renaud De Carteret V

Sir Renaud De Carteret V, or Sir Reginald De Carteret V (born 1316) was a Seigneur of St Ouen in Jersey.

Renaud de Courtenay

Renaud de Courtenay ( – September 27, 1194) (Anglicised to "Reginald") was a French nobleman of the House of Courtenay who came over to England, of Sutton, Berkshire.

Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres

Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres has a degree in economics, and a diploma from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, a traditional starting point for attending the École nationale d'administration (ENA), a school for high-level civil servants, which he entered in 1978.

Renaud du Bellay

Renaud du Bellay was the treasurer of Tours cathedral, and Archbishop of Reims from 1083 to 1096 AD.

Renaud I, Count of Dammartin

Following the acquisition of Normandy in April 1204, King Philip granted Renaud the county of Mortain and the honor of Warenne which was centered on the fortresses of Mortemer and Bellencombre.

Renaud Van Ruymbeke

Interviews and portrait of seven anticorruption judges: Bernard Bertossa, Edmondo Bruti Liberati, Gherardo Colombo, Benoît Dejemeppe, Baltasar Garzon Real, Carlos Jimenez Villarejo, Renaud Van Ruymbeke

Robert of Molesme

Renaud, the viscount of Beaune, owned a desolate valley in a deep forest, which he gave to Robert and his companions, and thus they founded Cîteaux Abbey.

Simon Basinger

He worked with Simone Benmussa on the latest editions of Cahiers Renaud-Barrault, and met Marguerite Duras, Samuel Beckett, Marie-Helene Dasté, Catherine Eckerle, and Madeleine Milhaud.

In 1975, he became the youngest assistant (staging) of the company Renaud-Barrault alongside Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault in the Theatre d'Orsay-Gare d'Orsay in Paris.

Suzanne Renaud

Suzanne Renaud (born 1889 in Lyon, France; died 1964, in Havlíčkův Brod) was a French poet and translator.

The Mess

The debut single of the winning formation was "Au top" written by Maître Gims and Renaud Rebillaud.

Verlan

Other examples of verlan in cultural mainstream include the 1984 comedy Les ripoux (My New Partner) (ripou is verlan for "pourri," or rotten, and refers to a corrupt policeman); and the 1977 hit "Laisse béton" by singer Renaud (béton is verlan for "tomber" and the phrase means "drop it").

Yugoslavia at the 1968 Winter Olympics


Forwards: Franc Smolej, Bogomir Jan, Boris Renaud, Albin Felc, Viktor Tišler, Rudi Hiti, Slavko Beravs, Miroslav Gojanovič, Roman Smolej, Janez Mlakar, Ciril Klinar.


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