The École Polytechnique massacre, also known as the Montreal massacre, was an antifeminist mass shooting that occurred on December 6, 1989, at the École Polytechnique de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Fourteen women were murdered; another ten women and four men were injured. The perpetrator was 25-year-old Marc Lépine, armed with a legally obtained Ruger Mini-14, 30-round high-capacity magazines, and a hunting knife. He began his rampage at a mechanical engineering class at the École Polytechnique, where he separated the male and female students, ordering the men to leave. He shot all nine women in the room, killing six. For nearly 20 minutes the shooter moved through corridors on multiple floors of the building, the cafeteria, and another classroom, targeting women. He wounded more students and killed eight more women before fatally shooting himself.
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French playwright and novelist.
M6, also known as Métropole Television, is the most profitable private national French television channel and the third most watched television network in the French-speaking world. M6 is the head channel of the M6 Group media empire that owns several TV channels, magazines, publications, movie production companies, and media-related firms. It is owned by RTL Group.
Marie-José Benhalassa, known professionally as Marie-José Nat, was a French actress. Among her notable works in cinema were the sequel films Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc and Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise (1963), directed by André Cayatte. In 1974, she received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film Violins at the Ball.
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz was a French-speaking Swiss writer.
Eva Ionesco is a French actress and filmmaker. She is the daughter of photographer Irina Ionesco and came to international prominence as a child model after being featured in her mother's works.
Pierre Bachelet was a French singer-songwriter and film score composer. He was also known as Andrew Bacson.
Philippe Djian is a popular French author of Armenian descent. He won the 2012 Prix Interallié for the novel "Oh...".
Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau, a French historian, archaeologist and novelist.
Made in U.S.A is a 1966 French crime comedy film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, and starring Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marianne Faithfull, Yves Afonso, and Jean-Claude Bouillon. It was a loose and unauthorized adaptation of the 1965 novel The Jugger by Richard Stark, and was also inspired by the 1946 Howard Hawks film The Big Sleep.
Julien Poulin was a Canadian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He portrayed numerous roles in several popular Quebec films and series.
Pierre Braunberger was a French producer, executive producer, and actor.
Jean Daurand (1913–1989) was a French actor. He starred in La Nuit Merveilleuse and Derrière la Facade.
Daniel Duval was a French film actor, director and writer.
Robin des Bois is a French musical with mise en scène by Michel Laprise and text and music by Patrice Guirao and Lionel Florence. It premiered on 26 September 2013 at Palais des congrès de Paris and played until 5 January 2014 with French singer M. Pokora in the role of Robin Hood.
A Perfect Plan is a 2012 French action adventure comedy film directed by Pascal Chaumeil and starring Diane Kruger, Dany Boon, and Alice Pol. It is released as Fly Me to the Moon in Canada and Australia. Written by Laurent Zeitoun and Yoann Gromb, and based on a story by Philippe Mechelen, the film is about a woman in love who tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending badly by dashing to the altar with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.
Jonathan Cohen is a French actor, director and producer. He is known for co-starring in the Netflix prequel film to Army of the Dead, Army of Thieves (2021).
Pascal Rambert is a French writer, choreographer, and director for the stage and screen. He was born in 1962.
Marlène Schiappa is a French writer and politician who served as State Secretary for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life, attached to the Prime Minister, in the Borne government (2022-2023), as Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship, attached to the Minister of the Interior, in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex (2020–2022) and as Secretary of State for Gender Equality in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe (2017–2020).
Love Is at Stake is a 1957 French comedy drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Robert Lamoureux, Annie Girardot and Jacques Jouanneau.
