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    Henri Gance (17 March 1888 – 29 November 1953) was a French weightlifter who won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, representing France...
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  • Gance is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abel Gance (1889–1981), French film director, producer, writer, and actor Henri Gance...
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    Abel Gance (French: [gɑ̃s]; born Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon; 25 October 1889 – 10 November 1981) was a French film director, producer, writer and...
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    1927 French silent epic historical film, produced, and directed by Abel Gance that tells the story of Napoleon's early years. It is also the only film...
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    Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwa matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of...
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  • Games Gold Silver Bronze 1920 Antwerp details Henri Gance  France Pietro Bianchi  Italy Albert Pettersson  Sweden 1924 Paris details Carlo Galimberti...
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  • J'accuse! (1938 film) (category Films directed by Abel Gance)
    directed by Abel Gance and starring Victor Francen. It is a remake of the 1919 film of the same name, which was also directed by Gance. The married Edith...
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    J'accuse (1919 film) (category Films directed by Abel Gance)
    J'accuse is a 1919 French silent film directed by Abel Gance. It juxtaposes a romantic drama with the background of the horrors of World War I, and it...
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  • de Monte Cristo, directed by Henri Pouctal 1919: J'accuse, directed by Abel Gance 1921: La Roue, directed by Abel Gance 1922: Crainquebille, directed...
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    years. He worked with many notable directors, including Luis Buñuel, Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol, Sidney Lumet, Joseph Losey, Chantal Akerman...
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    Williquet  Belgium Florimond Rooms  Belgium Middleweight –75 kg details Henri Gance  France Pietro Bianchi  Italy Albert Pettersson  Sweden Light-heavyweight...
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  • Henri Beaulieu (1873 in Montargis – 1953) was a French stage and film actor, theatre managing director and author. 1927 : Napoléon by Abel Gance 1934:...
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  • Henri Gance  France Pietro Bianchi  Italy Albert Pettersson  Sweden...
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  • (died 1965) 7 March – Claude Roger-Marx, writer (died 1977) 17 March – Henri Gance, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (died 1983) 22 March – René...
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  • Vénus aveugle (category Films directed by Abel Gance)
    aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France during the German...
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  • La Roue (category Films directed by Abel Gance)
    (pronounced [la ʁu], 'The Wheel') is a French silent film, directed by Abel Gance, who also directed Napoléon and J'accuse. It was released in 1923. The film...
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    Cocteau. He also worked on the sets of the film-makers Jacques Feyder, Abel Gance, Robert Bresson, François Truffaut and Federico Fellini, and many of these...
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  • August – Auguste Giroux, rugby union player (born 1874) 29 November – Henri Gance, weightlifter and Olympic gold medalist (born 1888) 30 November – Francis...
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  • Williquet  Belgium Florimond Rooms  Belgium Middleweight –75 kg details Henri Gance  France Pietro Bianchi  Italy Albert Pettersson  Sweden Light-heavyweight...
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  • Guns for San Sebastian (category Films directed by Henri Verneuil)
    William Barnaby "Barby" Faherty, S.J. The film is directed by Frenchman Henri Verneuil, and stars Anthony Quinn, Anjanette Comer and Charles Bronson....
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    Decugis — Tennis, Mixed doubles Suzanne Lenglen — Tennis, Women's singles Henri Gance — Weightlifting, Middleweight Ernest Cadine — Weightlifting, Light heavyweight...
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  • directed by Henri Chomette) - L'avocat La Fin du monde (1931, directed by Abel Gance) - Schomburg Les Trois Mousquetaires (1932, directed by Henri Diamant-Berger)...
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    newsreels, and feature films, notably Abel Gance's film Napoleon (1927) with a final widescreen sequence in what Gance called Polyvision. Claude Autant-Lara...
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  • Austerlitz (1960 film) (category Films directed by Abel Gance)
    Austerlitz is a 1960 French historical drama film directed by Abel Gance and starring Jean Marais, Rossano Brazzi, Martine Carol, Jack Palance, Claudia...
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  • The Lady of the Camellias (1934 film) (category Films directed by Abel Gance)
    French historical romantic drama film directed by Fernand Rivers and Abel Gance and starring Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay and Jane Marken. It is based...
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    Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (UK: /ˈdjuːʃɒ̃/, US: /djuːˈʃɒ̃, djuːˈʃɑːmp/; French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter,...
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  • Barberousse (category Films directed by Abel Gance)
    by Abel Gance. Léon Mathot as Trively Émile Keppens as Gesmus Maud Richard as Odette Trively Germaine Pelisse as Pauline Yvonne Briey Henri Maillard...
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    Claude Chabrol, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jean Eustache, Georges Franju, Abel Gance, Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, Pierre Kast, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais...
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    (Robert Siodmak, 1934) The Crisis is Over (1934) – (uncredited) Dédé (Abel Gance, 1934) – Poliche (uncredited) Gold in the Street (K. Bernhardt, 1934) –...
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    had three exhibitions. The leaders of the movement were André Derain and Henri Matisse. Besides Matisse and Derain, other artists included Robert Deborne...
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