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Gilberte is a name of French-Norman origin. It is the feminine version of the name Gilbert.
Gilberte is a name of French-Norman origin. It is the feminine version of the name Gilbert.
In Search of Lost Time, first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche, is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. This early 20th-century work is his most prominent, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory. The most famous example of this is the "episode of the madeleine", which occurs early in the first volume.
Pierre Brossolette was a French journalist, politician and major hero of the French Resistance in World War II.
Courgenay is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
Richard Schweizer was a Swiss screenwriter who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1945 for his work in Marie-Louise, as well as the Academy Award for Best Story in 1948 for his work in The Search. Schweizer also directed the film Kleine Scheidegg (1937).
Events from the year 1937 in France.
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The spiritual national defence was a political-cultural movement in Switzerland which was active from circa 1932 into the 1960s. It was supported by the Swiss authorities, certain institutions, scholars, the press and intellectuals. Its aim was the strengthening of values and customs perceived to be ‘Swiss’ and thus create a defence against totalitarian ideologies.
Anne-Marie Blanc was a Swiss film and television actress, style icon and was commonly referred to as "The Grand Dame of the Swiss Film". Her granddaughter is the actress Mona Petri.
Gilberte de Courgenay is a 1942 Swiss biographical film about Gilberte Montavon directed by Franz Schnyder and starring Rudolf Bernhard, Anne-Marie Blanc and Zarli Carigiet.
Rudolph Bolo Mäglin, was a Swiss journalist, publicist, writer, poet and cabaretwriter.
Heinrich Gretler (1897–1977) was a Swiss film and television actor, who also starred on stage at the Bernhard-Theater in Zurich.
Schaggi Streuli (1899–1980) was a Swiss film and television actor, who also starred on stage at the Bernhard-Theater Zürich.
Max Knapp was a Swiss film and television actor.
Hermann Haller was a Swiss film editor. He also directed four films.
Hanns In der Gand was the pen name of Ladislaus Krupski was a Swiss folklorist and collector of traditional and military songs. Born to a Polish father and a German mother, he held citizenship of Schleinikon in the canton of Zurich. He was educated in Lucerne, he studied in Neuchatel and was educated as a singer in Frankfurt am Main and Munich. He worked as an actor at the court of Altenburg, but returned to Switzerland in the First World War.
Gilberte Brossolette was a French journalist and politician. A member of the French Resistance during the Second World War, she was the wife of journalist and politician Pierre Brossolette (1903-1944), who committed suicide while being tortured by the Gestapo.
Gilberte Roca née Cau was a French Communist politician and member of the Resistance.
Gilberte Céline Marin-Moskovitz was a French Socialist Party politician who served as deputy of Territoire de Belfort's 2nd constituency in the National Assembly from 1988 to 1991 and again from 1997 to 2000. She was also elected a councillor to the Belfort Municipal City Council in 1977 and was a four-term General Councillor of the canton of Belfort-Sud between 1982 and 2008. Marin-Moskovitz was appointed Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1996.
The Jade-Fitzroy network was a World War II French Resistance network created by Claude Lamirault, supported by Pierre Hentic, under the overall control of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). It operated from 1941 to 1944.
Gilberte Montavon de Courgenay was a Swiss waitress who became a national symbol of spiritual national defense during World War I and World War II. She entertained Swiss Army troops at the Hôtel de Gare in Courgenay, which was owned by her family, and became popular with the soldiers. In 1917, the composer and folklorist Hanns In der Gand gave a concert at the hotel and performed his new song La petite Gilberte, written about Montavon. The song was adopted by the army to boost morale throughout the war. Montavon inspired Rudolph Bolo Mäglin's 1939 novel Gilberte de Courgenay and his play of the same name. Two films, August Kern's Marguerite et les soldates in 1940 and Franz Schnyder's Gilberte de Courgenay in 1941, were based on her life.