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    In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art...
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     276. Galipaud, Jean-Christophe; Lilley, Ian (1999). Le Pacifique, de 50000 à 2000 avant le présent : Actes du Colloque de 1996. IRD. Conte, Éric (1995)...
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  • En Avant Guingamp (Breton: War-raok Gwengamp, English: Forward Guingamp), commonly referred to as EA Guingamp, EAG, or simply Guingamp (French: [ɡɛ̃ɡɑ̃])...
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    Vanuatu". In Galipaud, Jean-Christophe; Lilley, Ian (eds.). Le Pacifique de 5000 à 2000 avant le présent : suppléments à l'histoire d'une colonisation (The Pacific...
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  • Grotowski to the present generation of "postdramatic" theater makers. As a New Yorker writer put it: "Luminaries of the theatrical avant-garde—Richard Foreman...
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    The Citroën Traction Avant (French pronunciation: [tʁaksjɔnaˈvɑ̃]) is the world's first monocoque-bodied, front-wheel drive, mass-production car. A range...
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    of Austronesian settlement" Christophe Sand, p 3, in Le Pacifique de 5000 h 2000 avant le present / The Pacific from 5000 to 2000 BP, Archaeologue, http://horizon...
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    Rhône-Alpes. In 2001, she received a special mention for the Wepler Prize for À présent. She won the Goncourt short story prize in 2007 for her collection L'amour...
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    popular science book, Avant Le Big Bang (Before the Big Bang), based on a simplified version of their theses, where they also presented their point of view...
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    of Today) 1930: Précisions sur un état présent de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme (Precisions on the present state of architecture and urbanism) 1931:...
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    screenwriter. In the 1960s and 1970s, he directed many critically acclaimed avant-garde films of various genres. Today, he is mainly known for his later work...
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    "Les Six" (pronounced [le sis]) is a name given to a group of six composers, five of them French and one Swiss, who lived and worked in Montparnasse. The...
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    Kramer wrote, After the impact of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, however, Matisse was never again mistaken for an avant-garde incendiary. With the bizarre...
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  • The Blood of a Poet (French: Le sang d'un poète) (1932) is an avant-garde film directed by Jean Cocteau, financed by Charles de Noailles and starring Enrique...
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  • Avant Slant (subtitled One Plus 1 = II?) is an album by American jazz ensemble the John Benson Brooks Trio, released in September 1968 by Decca Records...
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    progressive metal, and post-metal. They have also incorporated math metal and avant-garde metal into their music. Magma marked a significant change in Gojira's...
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    established its reputation for innovative technology with the Traction Avant. This was the world's first car to be mass-produced with front-wheel drive...
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    the two lateral pavilions flanking a central avant-corps, again reminiscent of Mansart's work at Maisons. Le Vau supplements these with two additional receding...
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    Ville du Havre, consulted on 2 August 2012 (in French) "Les Collections Biologiques du Muséum avant le désastre du 5 Septembre 1944." Bulletin de la Société...
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    The Arts Council, 1965. Block, Jane, Les XX and Belgian Avant-Gardism 1868–1894, Studies in Fine Arts: The Avant garde, Ann Arbor: UMI Research press...
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    feature on the life of Le Prince. In 1992, the Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) directed Talking Head, an avant-garde feature film paying...
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    Direction des affaires indigènes: “Les rois indigènes . Bokkar . Au début du troisième siècle avant JésusChrist , le Maroc obéissait à Bokkar , qui résidait...
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    Lucie Castets (category Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni)
    Lucie Castets pour Matignon, Emmanuel Macron dit qu'il ne nommera personne avant mi-août". rts.ch (in French). 2024-07-23. Retrieved 2024-07-23. Breeden...
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    Grasset, Paris, June 2012, ISBN 978-2-246-78509-5 Le mystère du satellite Planck (Qu'y avait-il avant le Big Bang ?) (with preface and endnotes by Luis Gonzalez-Mestres...
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    l'intimité contemporaine, Paris, Ganse Arts et Lettres 2007. Aperceptions du présent. Théorie d'un aujourd'hui par-delà la détresse, Paris, Ganse Arts et Lettres...
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    Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse 1950 : Les Pantomimes de Bip and Mort avant l'aube, Studio des Champs-Élysées 1951 : Le Manteau – Moriana et Galvan by Nikolai...
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    portrayal of French fashion designer Coco Chanel in the biographical drama Coco avant Chanel (2009). She has been nominated three times for the César Award and...
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  • most popular sights as she performed on the roof of a Citroën Traction Avant. The modern Tour restricts the excesses to which advertisers are allowed...
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    COBRA or Cobra, often stylized as CoBrA, was a European avant-garde art group active from 1948 to 1951. The name was coined in 1948 by Christian Dotremont...
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    Avant-garde (French pronunciation: [avɑ̃ ɡaʁd]) is French for "vanguard". The term is commonly used in French, English, and German to refer to people...
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