Dr Tony Shaw

In the vanguard of the nouvelle vague  cinema mentioned below in Godard's film À bout de souffle , Les Quatre Cents coups was the fi...

At the time of writing, 10:30 on Wednesday 17 April 2019 in England, the above Livre de Poche  edition of Victor Hugo's  Notre-Dame  ...

Poet, painter, film-maker, playwright, philosopher and novelist, Isidore Isou Goldstein (1925–2007), who wrote as Isidor Isou, was born i...

Pierre Castex (1924–91) was a journalist and  writer of screenplays, cinema critic and journalist who worked for  Action , Libération , ...

Caroline Babert (1947–2010) was a journalist with Gala and a novelist who wrote Souviens-toi, Éléonore ! (1977), Les Méandres de la Mos...

'MEMORIAL LIBERPRESS 2008 GERDA TARO (1910–1937) A FIN QUE PERSONNE N'OUBLIE TA LUTTE INCONDITIONNELLE POUR ...

The statue of the poet and teacher Eugène Manuel (1823–1901) by Gustave Michel in the courtyard of the 'Petit lycée Janson-de-Sail...

Hector Bianciotti (1930–2012) was born in Argentina and was a film actor, a journalist, a writer and an academic who took on French na...

Jeanne Bourin (1922–2003) (née Mondot), was a historical novelist who returned to the Catholic faith at the age of forty. She had a...

' Quand verrai-je ma fin du monde ? Que votre Volonté soit faite etnon la mienne. Mais je vourdrais semer des oiseaux dans ceux ...

Józef Czapski (1896–1993) was one of the officers to survive the Katyń massacre, and was a fourth founder of Kultura: another exile l...

Zofia Hertz (1911–2003) was the first Polish woman to become a lawyer. She met Jerzy Giedroyc in 1933 at the Bureau de la culture, de ...

Michel Audiard (1920–85) was a screen writer, a film director, and a novelist. Sometimes called a right-wing anarchist, one of his gre...

Albert (or Albin) Kazimirski de Biberstein (1808–87), of French nationality but born in Poland, was an Arabic-speaking orientalist who...

Poet and singer Bernard Dimey is commemorated in this plaque in rue Germain Pilon. He spent fourteen years with painter and sculptor Y...

Ferdinand Brunot (1860–1938) was a noted linguist. A teacher at the Sorbonne, his famous work was Histoire de la langue français...

Jean Aragny (1898–1939) was a playwright about whom little information seems readily available, apart from his writings, seems to be k...

Victor Charbonnel (1863–1926) was a priest who left the priesthood and then gave a series of anti-clerical talks. Among a number of ot...

'PIERRE CORNEILLE NÉ À ROUEN LE 6 JUIN 16016, MORT À PARIS LE 1 ER OCTOBRE 1684, EST INHUMÉ DANS CETTE ÉGLISE. ––––––...

'ICI SE TROUVAIT DE 1845 à 1852 LE THÉÂTRE DES SOIRÉES FANTASTIQUES FONDÉ PAR JEAN-EUGÈNE ROBERT-HOUDIN RÉNOVATEUR DE LA PRESTIGITAT...