• Topaze may refer to: Topaze (play), a 1928 French play written by Marcel Pagnol, which spawned a number of film adaptations: Topaze (1933 American film)...
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  • Mr. Topaze (U.S. title: I Like Money) is a 1961 British film directed by Peter Sellers and starring Sellers, Nadia Gray, Leo McKern, and Herbert Lom. It...
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    Topaze (Véhicule Expérimental 111 Topaze) is the designation of a French sounding rocket. The Topaze was developed by several French companies, notably...
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  • name HMS Topaze, after the French word for the gemstone Topaz: HMS Topaze (1793), a 38-gun fifth rate, previously the French frigate Topaze. She was handed...
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  • Topaze is a 1928 play in four acts by the French writer Marcel Pagnol. It tells the story of a modest school teacher who is fired for being too honest...
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  • sailors and to report back or mediate between Lascars and the European crew. Topaze Indo-Portuguese was a term applied in India by the British East India Company...
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    Topaze is a 1933 American pre-Code film directed by D'Abbadie D'Arrast and starring John Barrymore and Myrna Loy. It was based on the 1928 French play...
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    the name Topaze, in honour of the gemstone Topaz: French frigate Topaze (1751), a 26-gun frigate, lead ship of her class French frigate Topaze (1790),...
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    HMS Diamond (1904) (category Topaze-class cruisers)
    HMS Diamond was a Topaze-class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 6 January 1904, at Birkenhead, and was commissioned in January...
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  • HMS Topaze was a Royal Navy 32-gun frigate, originally completed in 1791 as a French Magicienne-class frigate. In 1793 Lord Hood's fleet captured her at...
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    HMS Topaze was a 51-gun Liffey-class wooden screw frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 12 May 1858, at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth. Her crew...
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    The Topaze-class cruisers (often referred to as the Gem class) were a quartet of third-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade...
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  • when, at the age of seven, he played the role of Gaston in the film Mr. Topaze, directed by his father. As an adult, Michael became a builder and property...
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  • Topaze is a 1933 French comedy film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Louis Jouvet, Simone Héliard and Marcel Vallée. It is based on the 1928 play...
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  • Topaze is a 1951 French comedy film directed by Marcel Pagnol and starring Fernandel, Hélène Perdrière and Marcel Vallée. It is based on Pagnol's own 1928...
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    Topaze was one of six Émeraude-class submarines built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) in the first decade of the 20th century. The Émeraude class...
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  • "Topaze" is a 1966 Australian TV play based on the 1928 play by the French writer Marcel Pagnol. It aired on 6 April 1966 in Sydney, on 30 March 1966 in...
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    Émeraude class (1906–1919) Émeraude (Q41) Opale (Q42) Rubis (Q43) Saphir (Q44) Topaze (Q45) Turquoise (Q46) Circé class (1907–1918) Circé (Q47) Calypso (Q48)...
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  • Pagnol's own 1928 play Topaze. A separate adaptation Topaze had been directed by Louis J. Gasnier three years earlier. Arnaudy as Topaze Sylvia Bataille as...
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    was totally or mostly washed off when the statue was rafted out to HMS Topaze. Precise reading of these designs varies. The birdmen are popularly interpreted...
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    British captured her in 1814 and the Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Topaze. She did not go to sea again until 1818, and was paid off in 1822. She served...
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  • "Topaze" was an American television play broadcast on September 26, 1957, as part of the second season of the CBS television series Playhouse 90. Ellis...
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    Merchants of Glory, which was produced in 1924. This was followed, in 1928, by Topaze, a satire based on ambition. Exiled in Paris, he returned nostalgically...
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    his directorial debut with Mr. Topaze, in which he also starred. The film was based on the Marcel Pagnol play Topaze. Sellers portrayed an ex-schoolmaster...
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    The majority of the Alphonse Atoll, Seychelles Thorpe Bank, Seychelles Topaze Bank, Seychelles Walters Shoals, just south of Madagascar, was once a large...
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    précieuses (fr.: gemstones) program, that included five prototypes Agathe, Topaze, Emeraude, Rubis and Saphir, leading up to the Diamant orbital rocket. Its...
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    pierres précieuses (fr.: gemstones) that included the five prototypes Agate, Topaze, Emeraude, Rubis and Saphir (Agate, Topaz, Emerald, Ruby and Sapphire),...
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    showed a sail approaching from the north. This vessel was the French frigate Topaze, a powerful 40-gun vessel that was significantly stronger than any of the...
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    HMS Topaze was a Topaze-class protected or third-class cruiser which served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. The vessel was the lead ship...
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  • (1935) Crime Without Passion (1934) (also directed by him and Ben Hecht) Topaze (1933) Freaks (1932) (uncredited) Rasputin and the Empress (1932) The Unholy...
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