Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.
Jean-Pierre Wimille was a Grand Prix motor racing driver and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.
Robert Marcel Charles Benoist was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver and war hero.
Alain de Benoist – also known as Fabrice Laroche, Robert de Herte, David Barney, and other pen names – is a French journalist and political philosopher, a founding member of the Nouvelle Droite, and the leader of the ethno-nationalist think tank GRECE.
The Nouvelle Droite, sometimes shortened to the initialism ND, is a far-right political movement which emerged in France during the late 1960s. The Nouvelle Droite is at the origin of the wider European New Right (ENR). Various scholars of political science have argued that it is a form of fascism or neo-fascism, although the movement eschews these terms.
Christian Marquand was a French actor, screenwriter and film director. Born in Marseille, he was born to a Spanish father and an Arab mother, and his sister was film director Nadine Trintignant. He was often cast as a heartthrob in French films of the 1950s.
The Groupement de Recherche et d'Études pour la Civilisation Européenne, better known as GRECE, is a French ethnonationalist think tank founded in 1968 to promote the ideas of the Nouvelle Droite. GRECE founding member Alain de Benoist has been described as its leader and "most authoritative spokesman". Prominent former members include Guillaume Faye and Jean-Yves Le Gallou.
Events from the year 1944 in France.
Carnival in Flanders is a 1935 French historical romantic comedy film directed by Jacques Feyder. It is also widely known under its original title in French, La Kermesse héroïque. A German-language version of the film was made simultaneously and was released under the title Die klugen Frauen, featuring Ernst Schiffner in one of his early film roles.
Events from the year 1964 in France.
Events from the year 1891 in France.
Events from the year 1878 in France.
The Paris Waltz is a 1950 French-Italian historical musical film directed by Marcel Achard and starring Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay and Jacques Charon. It portrays the life of the nineteenth century composer Jacques Offenbach.
Jenny Orléans was a French actress.
Les Hommes nouveaux is a French drama film from 1936, written and directed by Marcel L'Herbier, starring Harry Baur. The film was based on a novel of Claude Farrère.
The Phantom Baron is a 1943 French drama film directed by Serge de Poligny and starring André Lefaur, Odette Joyeux and Jany Holt.
Hubert-Jean-Baptiste Rohault de Fleury was a French painter and philanthropist. He was one of the initiators of the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur, Paris.
Mea Culpa is a 2014 French thriller film directed by Fred Cavayé, starring Vincent Lindon, Gilles Lellouche and Nadine Labaki.
Behind the Facade is a 1939 French drama film directed by Georges Lacombe and Yves Mirande and starring Lucien Baroux, Jules Berry and André Lefaur. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris.
Roland Piétri, was a French actor and theatre director.
