Edgar Jean Faure was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956. Prior to his election to the National Assembly for Jura under the Fourth Republic in 1946, he was a member of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) in Algiers (1943–1944). A Radical, Faure was married to writer Lucie Meyer. In 1978, he was elected to the Académie Française.
The Félibrige is a literary and cultural association founded in 1854 by Frédéric Mistral and other Provençal writers to defend and promote the Occitan language and literature. It is presided over by a capoulié. The name possibly derives from an apocryphal Provençal story of Christ disputing in the temple with the seven doctors [sét félibre] of law.
Jean Guitton was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian. Le Monde called him "the last of the great Catholic philosophers."
Jean-Pierre Cassel was a French actor and dancer. A popular star of French cinema, he was initially known for his comedy film appearances, though he also proved a gifted dramatic actor, and accrued over 200 film and television credits in a career spanning over 50 years.
Raymond Pellegrin was a French actor.
Louis Pauwels was a French journalist and writer.
André du Bouchet was a French poet.
Pierre Lhomme was a French cinematographer and filmmaker.
François Périer was a French actor renowned for his expressiveness and diversity of roles.
The Diocese of Carcassonne and Narbonne is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises the entire department of Aude. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Montpellier.
The Diocese of Arras (–Boulogne–Saint-Omer) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The episcopal see is the Arras Cathedral, in the city of Arras. The diocese encompasses all of the Department of Pas-de-Calais, in the Region of Hauts-de-France.
François de Roubaix was a French film score composer. In a decade, he created a musical style with new sounds, until his death in 1975.
Pierre Étaix was a French clown, comedian and filmmaker. Étaix made a series of short- and feature-length films, many of them co-written by influential screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. He won an Academy Award for best live action short film in 1963. Due to a legal dispute with a distribution company, his films were unavailable from the 1970s until 2009.
Jean Vautrin, real name Jean Herman, was a French writer, filmmaker and film critic.
Pierre Vaneck was a French actor. During his career, he won a Molière Award in 1988 and received a César Award nomination in 2009.
Tony Aboyantz was a Soviet Armenian-born French film director and assistant director.
Henri Betti, born Ange Betti, was a French composer and a pianist.
René Clermont was a French stage and film actor as well as a playwright.
Madeleine Laurain-Portemer was a 20th-century French historian, specializing in the history of Mazarin and his time, married to Jean Portemer (1911–1998).
The following lists events that happened during 1889 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
