Gironde is the largest department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the Gironde estuary, a major waterway, its prefecture is Bordeaux. In 2019, it had a population of 1,623,749. The famous Bordeaux wine region is in Gironde. It has six arrondissements, making it one of the departments with the most arrondissements.
Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. It tied with Roger Zelazny's This Immortal for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966. It is the first installment of the Dune Chronicles. It is one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels.
Dune is a 1992 adventure strategy game based on the 1965 science-fiction novel of the same name by Frank Herbert. It was developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Virgin Interactive.
Arcachon is a commune in the southwestern French department of Gironde. It is a popular seaside resort on the Atlantic coast 55 kilometres (34 mi) southwest of Bordeaux, in the Landes forest. It has a sandy beach and a mild climate said to be favourable for people suffering from pulmonary complaints.
Berck, sometimes referred to as Berck-sur-Mer in French or Berck-su-Mér in Picard, is a commune in the northern French department of Pas-de-Calais.
Camiers is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in Hauts-de-France in France.
Erg Chebbi is one of Morocco's several ergs – large seas of dunes formed by wind-blown sand. It is located on the far western edge of the Sahara Desert. There are several other ergs in Morocco, such as Erg Chigaga near M'hamid.
Maurice Thiriet was a French composer of classical and film music.
Petit Fort was a structure located in northwestern Indiana, in or near the Indiana Dunes, near the mouth of Fort Creek, now known as Dunes Creek. It may have been a French military outpost, but was more likely a private residence, trading post, or at most a support station for larger forts in the area. The National Park Service refers to it as a "fur depot."
La Grande-Motte is a commune in the Hérault département in Occitanie in southern France. It is a popular seaside resort and port near Montpellier, built in the 1960s and 1970s. La Grande-Motte is characterized by homogeneous architecture; many of the prominent buildings are pyramidal in form. With 2 million tourists per year it is one of the favorite resorts of the French.
Pléneuf-Val-André is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France. The writer Florian Le Roy (1901–1959), winner of the 1947 Prix Cazes was born in Pléneuf-Val-André and the journalist Yves Grosrichard (1907–1992) died there too.
Tolowa Dunes State Park is a 4,000-acre (16 km2) California State Park located in Del Norte County, on the North Coast of California.
Les Films du Poisson is a French film production company founded in 1995 by Yael Fogiel and Laetitia Gonzalez. The company has produced more than a hundred films: features, documentaries and shorts. Many have won awards in France and around the world. In 2011 France's Academy of Film names Les Films du Poisson Best Producers.
Jean-Paul Étienne Dreyfus, better known as Jean-Paul Le Chanois, was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. His film ...Sans laisser d'adresse won the Golden Bear (Comedies) award at the 1st Berlin International Film Festival.
Landscape with Dunes or In the Dunes is an oil painting created in August 1883 by Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived at The Hague. It is currently held in a private collection.
Phan Thiết station is a subsidiary station of Saigon station at the fishing town of Phan Thiết. It is where the North–South railway begins to follow the beachfront northbound, all the way up to Huế Railway Station.
Jean Bourgoin was a French cinematographer. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for the 1962 war film The Longest Day.
The House on the Dune is a 1952 French crime drama film directed by Georges Lampin and starring Ginette Leclerc, Jean Chevrier and Roger Pigaut. It was a remake of the 1934 film of the same title, which was in turn based on the 1932 novel The House on the Dune by Maxence Van Der Meersch. The film's sets were designed by the art director Maurice Colasson.
The canton of Garonne-Lomagne-Brulhois is an administrative division of the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave.
Chiquet Mawet was a playwright, storyteller, poet, social activist and professor of ethics. Part of the generation between The Battle of Stalingrad in 1942 and the Protests of 1968, Beaujean, at 20, was fascinated by the hope of self-managed socialism (Titoism) in Yugoslavia.
