Sophie Massieu (born 8 February 1975, Cherbourg-Octeville), is a journalist from the department of Manche in Normandy, France.
Daughter of a farmer, Sophie Massieu was born blind. [1] She began her schooling at home in Réthoville, and then integrated a school for blind children which had just opened in Cherbourg, before going to the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (INJA), in Paris. [1]
Despite her handicap, Sophie Massieu had remarkable studies : hypokhâgne, khâgne, Sciences-Po, then integrated in 1998 the centre de formation des journalistes (CFJ), in Paris as well. [1]
Becoming professional in 2000, she is an independent freelance ( L'Express , La Vie , Libération ...), then chief editor during four years of the associative magazine "Facing", before multiplying radio experiments (RFI, France Information, France Inter), then television ( Le Goût du noir , on France 5, with Gérard Miller). [2] En 2012, [3] she accomplishes a documentary series for the TV series Dans tes yeux d ' Arte (40 shows of 26 minutes each), where she visits 23 countries in ten months, for that she accepts the Trofémina prize in 2014. [4]
Danielle Frida Hélène Boccara was a French singer of Italian descent, who performed and recorded in a number of languages, including French, Spanish, English, Italian, German, Dutch and Russian.
Elsa Lunghini, known mononymously as Elsa, is a French singer and actress. She was a teenage pop-star in the late-1980s. In 1986, she was the youngest singer to reach number one in the French charts, with the single "T'en va pas", and she went on to sell millions of records during the decade. Elsa, her album of 1988, had achieved double-platinum status by 1993.
Sophie Cottin was a French writer whose novels were popular in the 19th century, and were translated into several different languages.
Martine St. Clair is a Canadian singer from the province of Quebec. She has released numerous albums in a career that has spanned over two decades.
The César Award for Best Female Revelation is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to recognize the outstanding breakthrough performance of a young actress who has worked within the French film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. Nominees and winner are selected via a run-off voting by all the members of the Académie, within a group of 16 actresses previously shortlisted by the Révélations Committee.
The 14th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1988 and took place on 4 March 1989 at the Théâtre de l'Empire in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Peter Ustinov and hosted by Pierre Tchernia. Camille Claudel won the award for Best Film.
40 chansons d'or is a double-CD by Charles Aznavour, released in 1994 on EMI Records. It was reissued in 1996 with a different track listing.
The Prix Sorcières is an annual literary prize awarded in France since 1986 to works of children's literature in a number of categories. The categories were renamed in 2018.
Patrick Grainville is a French novelist.
Annie Villeneuve is a French-Canadian pop singer-songwriter. She participated at the first season of Star Académie in 2003. She also sang the French and the bilingual official song of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, I Believe/J'imagine.
Louis Valentin, born Louis Valentine, was a French journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. He was born in Gap, Hautes-Alpes, and he lived in France until his death at Antibes.
Nadine de Rothschild is a French author and former actress. She is the widow of banker Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, a member of the Rothschild family.
Philippe Poirrier, born in 1963, is a French historian, specialist in French contemporary cultural history.
Daniel Bevilacqua, better known by the stage name Christophe, was a French singer and songwriter. He was born in the Paris suburb of Juvisy-sur-Orge, to an Italian father.
Madeleine Chapsal was a French writer and the daughter of Robert Chapsal, son of the politician Fernand Chapsal, and of Marcelle Chaumont, who made dresses for Madeleine Vionnet.
Leyla Bouzid, is a Tunisian screenwriter and film director.
Lucky Blondo is a French singer who was popular in the 1960s.
Christiane Collange was a French journalist and author.
Sophie Adriansen is a French writer, a member of the Société des gens de lettres and of the "Charte des auteurs et des illustrateurs jeunesse".
