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Jean-Paul Poulain was a famous Maine Franco-American Cabaret recording artist . He was a worldwide act who received international acclaim. The last years of Poulain's life were troubled and he was shot and killed on April 24, 2007.
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Amélie is a 2001 French romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre. It tells the story of a shy waitress, played by Audrey Tautou, who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better while struggling with her own isolation. The film was a co-production between companies in France and Germany. Taking in over $33 million in a limited theatrical release, it is to date the highest-grossing French-language film released in the United States, and one of the biggest international successes for a French movie.
The Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as a distinct family Oedipodidae in the superfamily Acridoidea. Acrididae grasshoppers are characterized by relatively short and stout antennae, and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment.
Pézenas is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
The Poule d'Essai des Poulains is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts. It is run over a distance of 1,600 metres at Longchamp in May.
Rufus or Zio Vittorio is the stage name of Italian-French actor Jacques Narcy. He is best known to international film audiences for his performance as Raphaël, the father of Amélie Poulain in Amélie (2001).
Poulain is the French word for foal and is a common French surname. It may refer to:
Chocolat Poulain is one of the oldest chocolate brands in France. It is known particularly for its bars of eating and cooking chocolate, as well as its Poulain Orange product, which is a chocolate drink mix. The icon of the brand is a jumping foal, which is a wordplay on the creator's name "Poulain", which is French for foal.
The Romaleidae or lubber grasshoppers are a family of grasshoppers, based on the type genus Romalea. The species in this family can be found in eastern Asia and the Americas.
Blue Zones are regions of the world where Dan Buettner claims people live much longer than average. The term first appeared in his November 2005 National Geographic magazine cover story, "The Secrets of a Long Life". Buettner identified five regions as "Blue Zones" : Okinawa (Japan); Sardinia (Italy); Nicoya ; Icaria (Greece); and among the Seventh-day Adventists in Loma Linda, California. He offers an explanation, based on data and first hand observations, for why these populations live healthier and longer lives than others.
La Noë-Poulain is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France.
General Édouard Corniglion-Molinier was an aviator and member of the French Resistance, a member of the French government during the French Fourth Republic, and, in the 1930-1940s, a movie producer. He was a friend of Marcel Dassault and a cousin of Fred Vidal.
Caro (1967–1989) was an Irish-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse.
François Poullain de la Barre was an author, priest and a Cartesian philosopher.
Benoît Guy Jean Poulain is a French professional footballer who most recently played for Turkish club Kayserispor.
Lope De Vega is a retired Irish bred Thoroughbred racehorse and current breeding Stallion.
Gabriel Poulain was a French champion cyclist. He made several attempts to achieve human-powered flight and in July 1921 won a prize of 10,000 francs awarded by Peugeot for a flight of ten metres at a height of one metre, on a bicycle with two wing planes in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris.
Jean Le Poulain was a French stage actor and stage director.
Hervé Poulain is a retired French racing driver, author, and auctioneer. He is best known today as the instigator of the BMW Art Car Project. Poulain's idea was to invite artists to use new automobiles as their canvas. In 1975, Poulain commissioned American artist and friend Alexander Calder to paint the first BMW Art Car. This first example would be a BMW 3.0 CSL 'Batmobile' which Poulain himself would race in the 1975 Le Mans endurance race.[1] Poulain drove Calder's BMW with Jean Guichet and Sam Posey, although the car suffered driveshaft issues and was retired early, and never raced again. Calder died a year later, in 1976; the BMW was his last work.
Francis Joffo is a French actor, writer and theater director who essentially played for television, particularly in the Au théâtre ce soir program which made him famous. He is also a dramatist and playwright.
Albert Poulain was a French chocolatier and industrialist who directed Chocolat Poulain from 1874 to 1893. He was also the first president of the Chamber of commerce of Loir-et-Cher from 1896 to 1920.