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Occupation. French writer. Christiane Rochefort (17 July 1917 – 24 April 1998) [1] was a French feminist writer. She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. [2][3] Rochefort worked as a journalist and spent fifteen years as a press attaché to the ...
28. The " Ballade des dames du temps jadis " (" Ballade of Ladies of Time Gone By") is a Middle French poem by François Villon that celebrates famous women in history and mythology, and a prominent example of the ubi sunt? genre. It is written in the fixed-form ballade format, and forms part of his collection Le Testament in which it is ...
Mohammed Dib. Mohammed Dib (Arabic: محمد ديب; 21 July 1920 – 2 May 2003) was an Algerian author. He wrote over 30 novels, as well as numerous short stories, poems, and children's literature in the French language. His work covers the breadth of 19th century Algerian history, focusing on Algeria's fight for independence.
Au fond du temple saint. " Au fond du temple saint " ("At the back of the holy temple") is a duet from Georges Bizet 's 1863 opera Les pêcheurs de perles. The libretto was written by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré. Generally known as " The Pearl Fishers' Duet ", it is one of the most popular numbers in Western opera – it appeared on seven ...
Officially Francophone areas in red. Belgian French (French: français de Belgique) is the variety of French spoken mainly among the French Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois, and Lorrain (Gaumais). The French language spoken in Belgium differs very little from that of France ...
Children of Paradise. Children of Paradise (original French title: Les Enfants du Paradis) is a two-part French romantic drama film by Marcel Carné, produced under war conditions in 1943, 1944, and early 1945 in both Vichy France and Occupied France. Set in the theatrical world of 1830s Paris, it tells the story of a courtesan and four men ...
La Marseillaise. " La Marseillaise " [a] is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled " Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin " [b] ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine ").
Mohammed Yeregnan Sanogo (born 30 April 1974, Nogent-sur-Marne) is an Ivorian pastor, author and missionary from Ivory Coast.Married to Lilliane Sanogo since in 2000, he is the founder and general overseer of the Messages De Vie (Messages of Life) Ministry and of Vases d'honneur Church, based in Abidjan. [1]