Jacques Tardi is a French comic artist. He is often credited solely as Tardi.
Nokturnal Mortum are a Ukrainian black metal band from Kharkiv. They were one of the founders of the Ukrainian black metal scene and pioneers in the early National Socialist black metal ("NSBM") scene.
Mathieu Kassovitz is a French director, screenwriter, producer, editor and actor. He is the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company.
Gojira is a French heavy metal band from Ondres. Founded as Godzilla in 1996, the band's lineup—brothers Joe and Mario Duplantier (drums), Christian Andreu, and Jean-Michel Labadie (bass)—has been the same since the band changed its name to Gojira in 2001. Gojira has been known for their progressive and technical death metal styles and their spiritual and environmentally-themed lyrics. The band has gone "from the utmost obscurity during the first half of their career to widespread global recognition in the second".
Les Humanoïdes Associés ("Humanoïdes") is a Franco-American publishing house specializing in comics and graphic novels. Founded in December 1974 by comic artists Mœbius, Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet, and financial director Bernard Farkas in order to publish Métal Hurlant, it quickly expanded to include a variety of science fiction works, featuring mature themes that were not commonplace in the Franco-Belgian comic world. Considered revolutionary in the comic book form at the time, chiefly due to its focus on the science fiction genre, the work found in Humanoïdes inspired many generations of authors and filmmakers.
Amira Casar is a British-born actress who grew up in England, Ireland, and France.
Atlantico is a French news website. Founded on 28 February 2011 amid much media attention, it quickly attracted notice for scoops related to scandals involving the Socialist politician and International Monetary Fund head, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Chaulnes is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Lannemezan is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department and the Occitanie region in south-western France. The inhabitants are called Lannemezanais.
Hellfest, also called Hellfest Summer Open Air, is a rock festival focusing on heavy metal music, held annually in June in Clisson in Loire-Atlantique, France. Its high attendance makes it the French music festival with the largest turnover. It is also one of the biggest metal festivals in Europe and the first to exist in France.
Peste Noire are a French black metal band from La Chaise-Dieu, France. The band was formed by "La sale Famine de Valfunde", also known simply as "Famine", in 2000. Their music uses standard black metal elements mixed with traditional Gallic instrumentation, and influences from genres like punk and electronic music. The band is sometimes referred to as P.N. or K.P.N.
Marc d'Anna, writing under the pen name Alexandre del Valle, is a Franco-Italian writer, professor, columnist, and political commentator. He is known primarily for his analysis of Islamic extremism, and his criticism of Erdoğan's neo-Ottoman, Islamist, and post-Kemalist Turkey. Del Valle is a proponent of the "PanWest paradigm"—the cooperation between the West and Russia against radical Islamism—and coined the concept of "Red-green-brown alliance" in 2002.
Richard Berry is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1972. He starred in The Violin Player, which was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
Cassiopée is a francophone Canadian singer and entertainer. Since 2011, she has played the lead female character Lia in Cirque du Soleil show, Zarkana. She also plays three of the four other female parts in the production.
Jérôme Ferrari is a French writer and translator born in 1968 in Paris. He won the 2012 Prix Goncourt for his novel Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome.
Gandhi Bilel Djuna, better known by his stage name Maître Gims and more recently just Gims, is a Congolese-French singer-songwriter and rapper. He grew up in France and currently lives in France and Morocco. He is a former member of the hip hop group Sexion d'Assaut and released his first major album, Subliminal in 2013. The album sold over a million copies in France and peaked at number two in the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. His other two albums follow: Mon cœur avait raison in 2015 and Ceinture noire in 2018 reached number one in France and Belgium (Wallonia) and peaked in the top 40 in various European countries, including Denmark, Italy and Switzerland.
Frédéric Chatillon is a French businessman, and communications adviser to Front National leader Marine Le Pen.
Soyons Libres (SL), also called Libres,, is a French political party that was founded in 2017 by Valérie Pécresse, within Les Républicains.
Mohamed Chrif Tribrak is a Moroccan filmmaker and screenwriter.
