The film revolves around the late-17th-/early-18th-century composer Marin Marais' life as a musician, his mentor Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, and Sainte-Colombe's daughters.
Les Misérables | Le Monde | Les Misérables (musical) | Aix-les-Bains | Les Claypool | Matins | Les Paul | Les Six | Les pêcheurs de perles | Les Inrockuptibles | Les Brown (bandleader) | Les Brown | Pernes-les-Fontaines | Les Blank | Yverdon-les-Bains | Sotteville-lès-Rouen | Les XX | Les Miserables | Les Genevez | Les Fradkin | Les Enfers | Les Dawson | Issy-les-Moulineaux | Thonon-les-Bains | Salins-les-Bains | Les Vandyke | Les Troyens | Les Mureaux | Les McCann | Les Huguenots |
But his most popular book is probably Tous les matins du monde (All the Mornings in the World), about 17th-century viola de gamba player Marin Marais and his teacher, Sainte-Colombe, which was adapted for the screen in 1991, by director Alain Corneau.
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Tous les matins du monde, starring Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gérard Depardieu and son Guillaume Depardieu, was a tremendous success in France and sold 2 million tickets in the first year.