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He published two novels: Marea batalie de la Iazul Mic (The Sea Battle of the Little Pond, 1953) and Cartea cu ochi albastri (Book with Blue Eyes, 1959) and wrote many stories for children. [1] He also wrote the screenplays Vara romantică (Romantic Summer, 1961), Tată de duminică (Sunday Father, 1975) and Singurătatea florilor (Flowers of ...
In the village of Assola, divided into half by the French-Italian border, the Neapolitan smuggler Giuseppe La Paglia (Totò) and the French customs officer Ferdinand Pastorelli (Fernandel), play a daily cat-and-mouse game, with Ferdinand trying to arrest Giuseppe, and Giuseppe trying to smuggle goods under Ferdinand's nose.
Some of the world's biggest fashion houses (e.g. Chanel) have their headquarters in France. The association of France with fashion (la mode) dates largely to the reign of Louis XIV [52] when the luxury goods industries in France came increasingly under royal control and the French royal court became, arguably, the arbiter of taste and style in ...
In some of his later fiction writings, including La hanul lui Mânjoală, Kir Ianulea, Abu-Hasan, Pastramă trufanda and Calul dracului, Caragiale adopted the fantasy genre or turned to historical fiction. Ion Luca Caragiale was interested in the politics of the Romanian Kingdom, and oscillated between the liberal current and conservatism.
"The Goat and Her Three Kids" or "The Goat with Three Kids" (Romanian: Capra cu trei iezi) is an 1875 short story, fable and fairy tale by Romanian author Ion Creangă. Figuratively illustrating for the notions of motherly love and childish disobedience, it recounts how a family of goats is ravaged by the Big Bad Wolf , allowed inside the ...
During 1997, he served 6 months of an 18-month prison sentence in La Santé prison in Paris. In February 2000, Crédit Lyonnais sold Adidas to Louis-Dreyfus for a much higher amount of money than Tapie owed, 4.485 billion (€683.514 million) francs rather than 2.85 billion (€434.479 million).
Băieți buni is a 2005 Romanian 8-episode police drama television miniseries which centers on the efforts of two police inspectors (played by Dragoș Bucur and Cabral Ibaka) to bring down a far-reaching criminal network.
[10] [11] The owner's account, Harry Hahn's The Rape of La Belle (1946) is a classic of populist conspiracy theory applied to the art world. After decades in an Omaha vault, the Hahn La Belle was sold at auction by Sotheby's on January 28, 2010 as "by a follower of Leonardo, probably before 1750"; it brought $1.5 million, a price three times ...