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Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux was born Lucie Frederica Marguerite Jourdain on 9 May 1850 in Louviers, into a prominent family of drapers. [1] Her father was Frédéric-Joseph Jourdain. [ 2 ] She was the half-sister of the painter Roger Joseph Jourdain .
An adaptation of the 1934 film, featuring Leslie Howard in his original role and Olivia de Havilland as Marguerite, was produced in 1938 as part of the Lux Radio Theatre series. A radio series based on the novels starring Marius Goring as Blakeney was produced and syndicated 1952–53 on NBC under the direction of Harry Alan Towers through his ...
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1982 British romantic adventure television film set during the French Revolution.It is based on the novels The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) and Eldorado (1913) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, and stars Anthony Andrews as Sir Percy Blakeney/the Scarlet Pimpernel, the protagonist, Jane Seymour as Marguerite St.
During World War I, the Opéra de Paris director Jacques Rouché asked Colette, whom he met at one of Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux's salons, to provide the text for a fairy ballet. Colette originally wrote the story under the title Divertissements pour ma fille. After Colette chose Ravel to set the text to music, a copy was sent to him in 1916 ...
Marguerite de Angeli (1889–1987), American writer and illustrator of children's books; Marguerite De La Motte (1902–1950), American film actress; Marguerite de la Sablière (c. 1640–1693), French salonist and polymath; Marguerite Derricks (born 1961), American choreographer; Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), French writer and film director
The film grossed 12.7 million French Francs ($2.2 million) in its first five days in France. [5] The following week it was the number one film in France after expanding from 248 to 428 screens. [11] The film had a total of 2,002,915 admissions in France, [12] for a gross of $12.26 million. [13] In Italy, the film grossed over $2 million. [13]
Marguerite is a 2015 French-language comedy-drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli and written by Giannoli and Marcia Romano, loosely inspired by the life of Florence Foster Jenkins. The film is an international co-production among France, the Czech Republic, and Belgium. [ 4 ]
The Accursed Kings (French: Les Rois maudits [le ʁwa mo.di]) is a series of seven historical novels by French author Maurice Druon about the French monarchy in the 14th century. Published between 1955 and 1977, the series has been adapted as a miniseries twice for television in France.