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The Games of Countess Dolingen (French: Les Jeux de la comtesse Dolingen de Gratz) is a 1981 French fantasy-drama film written and directed by Catherine Binet and starring Carol Kane. [1] [2] The film was entered into the main competition at the 38th edition of the Venice Film Festival. [3]
Louis Binet was born in Paris in 1744. A pupil of Beauvarlet, he mainly worked for Restif de la Bretonne, whose portrait he painted, and whom he met in 1779 to illustrate La Malédiction paternelle. He provided illustrations for a number of other books by Restif, including Le Paysan perverti and Les Contemporaines. [1]
The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia praises the style, "turn of thought", and "apt quotations" in Binet's writings, recommending them as "pleasurable and profitable spiritual reading". Binet's forty-five published works include: [1] Flowers from the Psalms (Rouen, 1615), translated into Italian and Latin
The Wheat Sifters (Les Cribleuses de Blé) is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1854 by the French Realist painter Gustave Courbet.. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1855 in Paris, then in 1861 at the ninth exhibition of the Society of Friends of the Art of Nantes, which then bought the painting for the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes.
The title was suggested by Binet's publisher, Grasset, instead of the "too sci-fi" working title Opération Anthropoïde. The editor also requested the cut of about twenty pages criticizing Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, another novel about the SS in World War II that was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 2006. [5]
He also indirectly caused Proust to change the title of his magnum opus, In Search of Lost Time: Initially it was called Les Intermittences du cœur, but when Proust learned that Binet-Valmer had published the novel Le Cœur en désordre (1912), the name was changed to À la recherche du temps perdu, with the former title making an appearance ...
Pierre-Louis Binet de Marcognet (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ lwi binɛ də maʁkɔɲɛ]; 14 November 1765 – 19 December 1854) joined the French army in 1781 as an officer cadet and fought in the American Revolutionary War. During the French Revolutionary Wars he fought in the Army of the Rhine and was wounded at First and Second Wissembourg.
René Binet (1731 – 1812) was a French professor and translator. He was born near Beauvais and became professor of rhetoric at the collège du Plessis , rector of the Université de Paris in 1791, then proviseur (director) of the lycée Bonaparte .