Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette,known mononymously as Colette,was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime,actress,and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi,which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name. Her short story collection The Tendrils of the Vine is also famous in France.
L'enfant et les sortilèges:Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties is an opera in one act,with music by Maurice Ravel to a libretto by Colette. It is Ravel's second opera,his first being L'heure espagnole. Written from 1917 to 1925,L'enfant et les sortilèges was first performed in Monte Carlo in 1925 conducted by Victor de Sabata.
The bombard is a contemporary family of oboes widely used to play traditional Breton music,where it is considered emblematic. A bombard player is known as a talabarder.
Michel del Castillo born in 1933 in Madrid is a French writer.
Colette Caillat was a French professor of Sanskrit and comparative grammar. She was also one of the world's leading Jain scholars.
The Salon de Mai is a group of French artists which formed in a caféon the Rue Dauphine in Paris in 1943 during the German occupation of France.
Jean Le Moal was a French painter of the new Paris school,designer of stained glass windows,and one of the founder members of the Salon de Mai.
Love at Twenty is a 1962 French-produced omnibus project of Pierre Roustang,consisting of five segments,each with a different director from a separate country. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.
Red Cardell is a French,Breton rock band,that mixes Breton music with rock,folk,blues,world music and chanson réaliste.
Le Moal,or Moal,is a surname and may refer to:
François Sureau is a French writer,lawyer and technocrat. He was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and educated at the École nationale d'administration (ENA). He is a co-founder and co-director of the French Review of Economics. He is also the founding president of the Association Pierre Claver which assists refugees and displaced persons who have arrived in France. He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Commentary.
Colette is a French feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Colette Braeckman is a Belgian journalist,born in Ixelles on April 20,1946. She is a member of the editorial board of the Belgian French-language newspaper Le Soir,where she directs news coverage of Africa,particularly Central Africa. She has also been published in reviews and magazines,notably Le Monde diplomatique in both its French and English editions.
Dominique Bona is a French writer.
Armand Le Moal was a French racing cyclist. He finished in last place in the 1939 Tour de France.
Colette Tshomba Ntundu is a politician from the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was elected national deputy for the constituency of Funa three times,in 2006,2011 and 2018.
Corinne Le Moal is a French rower. She competed in the women's single sculls event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Camille Bourniquel was a French poet,novelist and painter.
Michel Le Moal is a French neuropsychiatrist and neuroscientist from Le Havre. In France,he is considered to be the first to research the establishing relationships between behavior and neuroscience,as well as creating an integrative neurobiology.
Colette Reynaud (1872–1965) was a French feminist,socialist and pacifist journalist. In 1917,she was the co-founder and director of the weekly newspaper La Voix des femmes.
