Philippe Di Folco (born 20 June 1964 in Choisy-le-Roi) is a French author and teacher.
Philippe Di Folco (born 20 June 1964 in Choisy-le-Roi) is a French author and teacher.
Born and raised in Val de Marne, near Paris, France, Philippe Di Folco studied Economics and Literature at School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris).
From 1988 to 1997, he was an academic publishing production manager for several companies such as Addison-Wesley.
He met Jean-François Bizot, CEO of Novapress in 1997, writing and producing for magazines and radio.
In 2003, he was invited to The Frye Festival.
He is co-author of On Tour with Mathieu Amalric: the film won an award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Di Folco was nominated for the César Award for Best Writing 2010.
Since 2010, he has been teaching creative writing at École Estienne, Le Havre Art School...
He is the author in 2014 of the first biography about the French millionnaire Jacques Lebaudy, the "Emperor of the Sahara", who was shot by his wife in Long Island in 1919.
He is co-author of Barbara with Mathieu Amalric: they were nominated for the César Award for Best Writing 2018.
Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782).
Jacques Grévin (c. 1539 – 5 November 1570) was a French playwright.
Roger Holeindre was a French Army veteran, politician and author. He served in the First Indochina War and the Algerian War, was a member of the National Assembly from 1986 to 1988. Holeindre also served as the vice-president of the National Front (FN) where he represented the "national-conservative" tendency, opposed to "nationalist revolutionaries" and Third Position ideologies. Holeindre was the president of the Cercle national des combattants and the honorary president of the Party of France.
Mathieu Amalric is a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known internationally for his roles in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace, in which he played the lead villain, Steven Spielberg's Munich, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel and The French Dispatch, and for his lead performance in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, for which he drew critical acclaim. He has also won several César Awards and the Lumières Award.
Bernard Cerquiglini, is a French linguist.
Events from the year 1965 in France.
Jacques Maurice Dessertenne was a French painter and illustrator, with an active career between about 1897 and the mid 1920s.
A Secret is a 2007 French film directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on the 2004 novel by Philippe Grimbert.
My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument is a 1996 French drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. It won the César Award for Most Promising Actor and was also nominated for Most Promising Actress. The film ensured Desplechin's and Amalric's career launches in the 90s as respected director and actor respectively. Historically it also marks one of Marion Cotillard's very first roles in the industry.
On Tour is a 2010 internationally co-produced comedy-drama film directed by Mathieu Amalric. It stars Amalric himself as a producer who brings an American Neo-Burlesque troupe to France, played by genuine performers Mimi Le Meaux, Kitten on the Keys, Dirty Martini, Julie Atlas Muz, Evie Lovelle and Roky Roulette. In a road movie narrative, the plot follows the troupe as they tour French port cities with their show, which was performed for actual audiences during the production. The inspiration for the film was a book by Colette about her experience from music halls in the early 20th century, and a part of Amalric's aim was to translate the sentiment of the book to a modern setting.
Pierre A. Riffard is a French philosopher and specialist in esotericism. Born in Toulouse (France), he is a professor of pedagogy and philosophy at the University of the French West Indies and Guiana . Teaching in the French overseas departments and territories and elsewhere: Asia, Oceania, Sub-Saharan Africa, Guiana.
The Lumières Award for Best Director is an annual award presented by the Académie des Lumières since 1996.
Laurent "Riss" Sourisseau is a French cartoonist, author and publisher. Since 1992, he has worked for the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo and is now its majority owner.
Jacques Lebaudy was a Frenchman from an extremely wealthy family of sugar refiners, known for his eccentricity and his attempt to establish a new nation, the Empire of the Sahara. The circumstances of his death in 1919 in Westbury, Long Island resulted in a sensational grand jury proceeding.
The Very Private Life of Mister Sim is a 2015 French comedy-drama film directed by Michel Leclerc and starring Jean-Pierre Bacri. It is an adaptation of the 2010 novel The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by English author Jonathan Coe. It was released in France on 16 December 2015.
Mathieu Laine is a French entrepreneur and intellectual.
Pierre Bourgeade was a French man of letters, playwright, poet, writer, director, journalist, literary critic and photographer. A descendant of Jean Racine, he was also the brother-in-law of the writer Paule Constant.
Jacques Serguine is a French writer and essayist.
Alain Pâris is a French conductor and musicologist.
Camille Bellaigue was a noted French music critic and musicologist. He wrote one of the first biographies in French of Giuseppe Verdi, dedicating it to Arrigo Boito.
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