and moralist, who was noted for his satire. Jean de La Bruyère was born in Paris, in today's Essonne département, in 1645. His family was middle class...

for The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, a political satire of Napoleon III. Most of the known information about Monsieur Joly is based...

which lies on the edge of the industrial port of Saint-Nazaire, in the Département of Loire-Atlantique. Tati had fallen in love with the beguiling coastline...

In December 1923 he staged his single most successful production, the satire Dr. Knock, written by Jules Romains.:92 His characterization of the manipulative...

Boulogne-Billancourt, Neuilly-sur-Seine, and Puteaux, all located in the département of Hauts-de-Seine. Stephen Holden of The New York Times called the film...

village. Milou en mai was filmed at Château du Calaoué, in the Gers département, southwestern France. Milou's mother dies, at the same time unrest and...

were out "slumming" in Montmartre. His vaudeville-inspired mix of song, satire and entertainment developed into the musical genre called chanson réaliste...

Épître à M. Gellée, médecin à Châlons, en vers, dans l’Annuaire du département de la Marne, année 1803. Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Boulliot, Biographie ardennaise...

known for being held hostage from 2021 to 2023; in Créteil, Val-de-Marne département Ever Carradine, American TV actress; in Los Angeles Died: Gene Ammons...

designate the Republic appeared in October 1792 in Puylaurens in the Tarn département near Toulouse. At that time people used to sing a song in the Provençal...

insérés dans le 4e volume du « Bulletin de la Société de statistique du département de l'Isère ») (1868) In French, "Ta mère m'a demandé de te découvrir...

fairy tales and oriental fantasies, between conventional charm and moral satire, have been collected and were published in 2005; they were originally published...

Hills, MI: Gale Group. p. 222. ISBN 0-7876-3105-1. John Wiglaff Duff, Roman satire: its outlook on social life, 1936, pp. 48-49 M. von Albrecht 1997, p. 265...

afterwards to a cottage at Abloville (near Saint-Aubin-sur-Gaillon) in the département of Eure. There he wrote Memoires d'un père (4 vols., 1804), including...

Paris (1781–1788), Le nouveau Paris (1799), Histoire de France (1802) and Satire contre Racine et Boileau (1808). He decried French tragedy as a caricature...

Gautier was born on 30 August 1811 in Tarbes, capital of Hautes-Pyrénées département (southwestern France). His father was Jean-Pierre Gautier, a fairly cultured...

to Captain of Cavalry. He married on 25 January 1761 in Vendenheim (Département du Bas-Rhin) Sophia Henrietta Rosina Juliana von und zu der Thann. She...

patois ou idiomes vulgaires de la France, et en particulier sur ceux du département de l'Isère, suivies d'un Essai sur la littérature dauphinoise [New Research...

Port-Vendres Bernini's Louis XIV in the Cour Napoléon The Laboratoire du département des peintures du Musée du Louvre was created in 1932 to support research...

children's literature. Fertiault was born in Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, in département Saône-et-Loire, located in central eastern France. His father was a soldier...

his carriage ran out of control at Sablonville in the Hauts-de-Seine département, he lost his balance and fractured his skull, and, despite the best attentions...

Lycée Max Linder, a public school in the city of Libourne in the Gironde département near his birthplace was given his name in 1981. Linder's influence on...

foreshadowed its author's future political extremism. Spiked with brutal satire and scandalous pornographic episodes, it also unmistakably attacked the...

Rhâ-Gnagna and Pervers Pépère are series exclusively dedicated to sex satire, but sexual matters are also present in Hamster Jovial. Most of Gotlib's...

story on an absurd matter. It's presumably best described as a non comedy satire. A dry and serious encounter with the Swedish bureaucracy and democracy...

knowledge upon his retirement. Born on 20 August 1940 in Épenoy in the Doubs département of France into a farming family, Jacques Bouveresse completed his secondary...

and drawings in the British Museum: Division I. Political and personal satires. Vol. 1. Trustees of the British Museum. p. 421. Bleakley (1929) p. 4 William...

and half of the duo Daft Punk; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine département Died: Fritz Zwicky, 75, Swiss-American astronomer known for the discovery...

(now part of the commune of Le Bez, to the east of Castres, in the Tarn département). At the time of Édouard's birth his father was an infantry captain in...

for converting consumer waste into viable potting soil. The project was a satire on the get-rich-quick fantasies of the dot.com boom, intellectual property...