José Bruyl (1889–1980) was a Francophone Belgian poet who was one of the founder members of L'Académie Charles-Cros. He was also a member of the Claude Debussy comittee in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He was a music critic and wrote several works on Arthur Honegger, the history of music and several composers such as Schubert, Liszt, Brahms and Ravel. He wrote a large number of articles in French music papers.
Jacques Fesch (1930–57) was condemned to death for theft while carrying a firearm in 1954, followed by the death of a policeman. Whilst in prison he became a Christain mystic, and is in the current process of beatification. His complete works (close on 600 pages) were published in 2015. The only comment I have to make about this is that I am, and always have been, totally opposed to capital punishment.
Jacques Tati (1907–82) was born Jacques Tatischeff of French-Russian-Dutch-Italian origin. His family grave is in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and the bicycle tyre is most fitting for a film director well remembered for his early Jour de fête (1949), about a postman on his bicycle going about his normal work (with invitations to drink alcohol), and which obviously heavily influenced the blockbuster by Dany Boon, Bienvenue chez les ch'tis (2008), at least in one particular sequence. A great director of almost silent film comedy. The suggestion, some years ago, that his pipe be airbrushed out of stills of his films, was the suggestion of an idiot.
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