Showing posts with label Nevers (58). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nevers (58). Show all posts
1 March 2022

Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour (1959)

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Alain Resnais and scriptwriter Marguerite Duras both agreed that it was impossible to make a film about Hiroshima, and this is the result. E...
22 August 2019

Johan-Barthold Jongkind, Nevers, Nièvre (58)

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The Dutch painter Johan-Barthold Jongkind (1819-91) was a precursor of Impressionism and stayed in the building to which this plaque is a...

Le Pont de la Loire, Nevers, Nièvre (58)

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This is not supposed to be a pretty tourist shot, although I have to admit it gives that impression, with the Pont de la Loire in the fo...
11 August 2019

Walter Benjamin, Nevers, Nièvre (58)

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The German philosopher, writer and critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was interned in the camp at Vernuche near Nevers in 1939, and in 2011...

L'Église Sainte Bernadette du Banlay, Nevers, Nièvre (58)

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In the 1950s Banlay, on the northern outskirts of Nevers, was rapidly expanding. The need for a new church was becoming important. Robert B...

Pierre Bérégovoy in Nevers, Nièvre (58)

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Pierre Bérégovoy (1925-1993) was for a relatively brief time (2 April 1992 to 29 March 1993) Prime Minister under President François M...
23 July 2018

Claude Tillier in Nevers, Nièvre (58)

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'CLAUDE TILLIER 1801–1844' Pamphleteer and novelist Claude Tillier has been mentioned below in relation to the bust of h...