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The Dreyfus affair (French: affaire Dreyfus, pronounced [afɛːʁ dʁɛfys]) was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. The scandal began in December 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus , a 35-year-old Alsatian French artillery officer of Jewish descent , was wrongfully convicted of ...
Roger de Piles's L'Abrégé de la vie des peintres...avec un traité du peintre parfait ( The Art of Painting and the Lives of the Painters), was a major art biography of painters. It was written by the French spy Roger de Piles.
Secret Documents (French: Documents secrets) is a 1945 French spy thriller film directed by Léo Joannon and starring Marie Déa, Raymond Rouleau and Hugo Haas. [1] [2] It was shot in 1940 during the Phoney War but was halted by the German invasion and its release delayed until after the Liberation.
History of a French Louse; or The Spy of a New Species, in France and England in British it-Narratives 1750-1830 (2012), d'Éon is portrayed as a nameless character which a louse inhabits for a period of time. [28] The Chevalier d'Éon: The 18th Century Transgender Spy (2022), a biographical short documentary directed by Jono Namara for BBC ...
France and the World since 1870 (2001) ch 4: "French Intelligence" pp 80–109. Parry, D. L. L. "Clemenceau, Caillaux and the Political Use of Intelligence." Intelligence and National Security 9#3 (1994): 472-494. Porch, Douglas. The French Secret Services: A History of French Intelligence from the Drefus Affair to the Gulf War (Macmillan, 2003).
Tarrare (; c. 1772 – 1798), sometimes spelt Tarar, was a French showman, soldier, and spy noted for his unusual appetite and eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry; his parents could not provide for him and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager.
Upon her return to France in 1953, Valland was appointed a conservator of the French Musées Nationaux and in 1954 was named Chair of the Service de protection des oeuvres d'art (Commission for the Protection of Works of Art). In 1961, she wrote about her wartime experiences in a book published under the title, Le front de l'art (republished in ...
Marthe Richard (French: Marthe Richard au service de la France) is a 1937 French war spy film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Edwige Feuillère, Erich von Stroheim and Marcel Dalio. [1] It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Perrier.