"Fort. In Peru, a ""son et lumière"" show opened in Park of the Reserve, Lima in 2007, called ""Circuito Mágico del Agua"" (""magic water circuit"") which has a Guinness record as the world's largest water source exposed in a public park. In Canada, the National Capital Commission has sponsored a sound and light show on Parliament Hill in Ottawa every year since 1984, from early July to mid-September. In Australia, ""Blood Under the Southern Cross"", shown at Sovereign Hill in Ballarat since 1992, depicts the events of the 1854 Eureka Rebellion. In Israel, a son et lumière production is presented"
"Dracula and Son Dracula and Son () is a 1976 French comedy and horror film directed and written by Edouard Molinaro. The film is about a vampire father and son. With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) and his son Ferdinand (Bernard Ménez) head abroad. The Prince of Darkness ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for a girl. Naturally, tensions arise when"
"Dutch and English. The plot of the French ""chanson"" is as follows: Renaud and his three brothers were sons of Aymon de Dordone. They flee from the court of Charlemagne after Renaud kills one of Charlemagne's nephews (Bertolai) in a brawl. A long war follows, during which Renaud and his brothers remain faithful to the chivalrous code of honor despite their sufferings, until Charlemagne is prevailed on by his paladins to make terms. The four brothers are pardoned on condition that Renaud go to the Holy Land on Crusade, and that their magical horse Bayard, who could expand his size"
"discovered by the police at a lighthouse. Le glaive et la balance Le glaive et la balance (English: The Sword and the Balance and Two Are Guilty)) is a 1963 French-Italian drama film directed by André Cayatte. It was written by Cayatte, Henri Jeanson and Charles Spaak. It stars the American actor, Anthony Perkins as the protagonist. On the French Riviera, the son of a wealthy local woman is kidnapped for ransom. The police soon begin an investigation into finding the boy and apprehending two assailants. The kidnappers manage to escape the clutches of the police, killing their victim in"
"son, Louis, to act as interpretor. They learn that Robert is Lady Beekman’s lawyer. Through a French waiter named Leon (who speaks English), Lorelei learns that Robert and Louis plan to show the ladies the Paris sights while charging everything to Lady Beekman, while waiting for an opportunity to steal the tiara from Lorelei to give to Lady Beekman. They go to Fontainebleau, the Folies Bergère, and the Palace of Versailles. Lorelei has made a paste copy of the tiara and, by playing one against the other, manages to keep the real tiara and send them away with the fake"
"Belle et Sébastien Belle et Sébastien is a novel by Cécile Aubry about a six-year-old boy named Sébastien and his dog Belle, a Great Pyrenees, who live in a village in the French Alps close to the Italian border. Sébastien lives with his adopted grandfather, sister, and brother, as his mother, a Romani, died after giving birth to him while trying to cross the border on Saint Sebastian's day. The novel, known in English-speaking countries as Belle and Sebastian, was made into a French live action television series in 1965, a Japanese anime version nearly two decades later in 1981"
"Sons and Lovers (film) Sons and Lovers is a 1960 British black and white film adaptation of the D. H. Lawrence 1913 novel of the same name. It was adapted by T. E. B. Clarke and Gavin Lambert, directed by Jack Cardiff, and stars Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure, William Lucas and Donald Pleasence. Freddie Francis won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work using CinemaScope on ""Sons and Lovers"" and the film received nominations in six additional categories, and was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. A young man with artistic talent who"
"days hence, and that Yde and Olive will conceive a child who will be named Croissant that very night. The episode some scholars have called ""Croissant"" follows telling of the deeds of Yde and Olive's son. The ""Yde et Olvie"" narrative then picks up with Florent dead and Yde returning to Aragon as the rightful heir to claim his throne. Editions & Translation Adaptations Prose English Prose Miracle Play Studies Yde et Olive Yde et Olive is a thirteenth-century Old French ""chanson de geste"". It is a sequel to ""Huon de Bordeaux"" and follows the ""Chanson d'Esclarmonde"", the story of"
"Carlier and to Michel Monier. It was initially interpreted as""Peace between the Greeks and the Roman"" but was later interpreted as relating the episode in which the young Papirius, known as Praetextatus, having been permitted to attend a sitting of the Roman Senate with his father, thwarts his mother's curiosity by humorously telling her that the Senate had been debating whether it were better for the State that a man have two wives or a woman have two husbands. It was placed in the Ballroom Grove in 1738, moved to the Tuileries Garden during the French Revolution and in the"
"film ""actually works because it treats its subject with respect and doesn't degrade it for cheap, campy laughs."" while noting that the film has a ""poor dubbing job"" that made the character Ferdinand Poitevin sound like a cross between Woody Allen and Austin Pendleton. Dracula and Son Dracula and Son () is a 1976 French comedy and horror film directed and written by Edouard Molinaro. The film is about a vampire father and son. With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) and his son Ferdinand (Bernard Ménez) head abroad. The Prince of"
"according to France, is God's secret name and means ""the child who wanders."" He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. He died in 1924 and is buried in the Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery near Paris. On 31 May 1922, France's entire works were put on the ""Index Librorum Prohibitorum"" (Prohibited Books Index) of the Catholic Church. He regarded this as a ""distinction"". This Index was abolished in 1966. In 1877, France married Valérie Guérin de Sauville, a granddaughter of Jean-Urbain Guérin a miniaturist who painted Louis XVI, and with whom he had a daughter, Suzanne, in 1881 (dec. 1918). France's"
"is her child, only because she keeps silent. By contrast, Zélie fights off the master's assault, preserving her virtue, at the cost of her death. By not keeping silent and instead informing her husband, she also sets in motion his eventual fate. After the execution of his wife, Georges escapes with his young son and joins the Maroons, described by Séjour as ""slaves who have fled the tyranny of their master"". Georges already knows their watchword: ""Afrique et liberté"", ""Africa and freedom."" Their use of the French Revolutionary rallying cry ""liberté"", later codified into the motto ""liberté, egalité, fraternité"", is"
"the theme of frustration in the tale. Through him is expressed most intensely the realization of the mortality of young love."" Sons and Lovers (film) Sons and Lovers is a 1960 British black and white film adaptation of the D. H. Lawrence 1913 novel of the same name. It was adapted by T. E. B. Clarke and Gavin Lambert, directed by Jack Cardiff, and stars Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure, William Lucas and Donald Pleasence. Freddie Francis won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work using CinemaScope on ""Sons and Lovers"" and the film received"
"who taught at the Sorbonne. His ancestors were pastors. His mother is the daughter of a coal miner from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region. Renaud dedicated part of his work to his familial roots, singing traditional songs in the regional Picard language and playing the part of Étienne Lantier in ""Germinal"", a film based on the famous Émile Zola novel. In August 2005, Renaud married Romane Serda, the mother of his son Malone. In 2007, he announced to the press his intention to move his family to London, citing a love for British society and expressing disillusionment at the current state of"
"the sons of Gérôme Roland, a jeweller who has retired to Le Havre, and his wife Louise. Pierre works as a doctor, and Jean is a lawyer. It recounts the story of a middle-class French family whose lives are changed when Léon Maréchal, a deceased family friend, leaves his inheritance to Jean. This provokes Pierre to doubt the fidelity of his mother and the legitimacy of his brother. Pierre discovers that his theories about his brother's illegitimacy are correct when he discovers his mother has hid and lied about an incriminating portrait of Maréchal and his love letters to her,"
"as they exit the train. An elegant forty-seven year old, she is discontent with her personal life but successful in business with her natural beauty line, ""Pourpre et Lys"". She lives just outside of the Paris with her husband, Luc, and her daughter, Valentine. After one of her regular visits to see her elderly parents, Cécile decides on a whim to stay Sunday night with them which puts her on the 6:41 a.m. train on Monday morning. Philippe, who works as a TV salesman at a superstore, is the father of two children, Manon and Loïc. He is divorced from"
"as he lies and risks imprisonment. The plot is partially narrated by journalist and author, Emile Blondet. The narrator talks about events he has witnessed, mainly his admiration for Armande d'Esgrignon and a small provincial town where his father, the respectable judge Blondet, still lives. As a child, Blondet frequently watches Armande while she takes a stroll with her nephew, Victurien d'Esgrigon. The angel-faced child is carefully taken care of, as he doesn't have a mother. He was raised by his doting aunt and his adoring father. As a young man, Victurien is strikingly intelligent but has a habit of"
"exact relationship between the boy and Saint-Vire, Avon purchases him from his brother, a tavern keeper. He takes the boy as his page, and as such can parade the boy throughout French high society, even at a party at Versailles held by Louis XV. The Duke displays Léon before the Comte's wife and his son and heir. He notes the resemblance of the son, Henri, to Léon's brother, Jean Bonnard, a tavern keeper. He also notes that the boy, Léon's age, prefers rural life, and wants to be a farmer. After this excursion to Versailles, the Comte becomes greatly interested"
"Belle and Sebastian (film) Belle and Sebastian () is a 2013 French adventure film directed by Nicolas Vanier. It was based on the novel ""Belle et Sébastien"" by Cécile Aubry. A sequel to the film, """", was released on 9 December 2015. In the French Alps, during the year 1943, Sébastien is a seven year old orphan boy living with César, an adoptive ""grandfather"" and his niece, Angélina. The unusual little family lives in the small village of Saint-Martin, whose inhabitants, despite the German occupation, secretly organize the passage of Jewish exiles into Switzerland. The village is also plagued by"
"Yde et Olive Yde et Olive is a thirteenth-century Old French ""chanson de geste"". It is a sequel to ""Huon de Bordeaux"" and follows the ""Chanson d'Esclarmonde"", the story of Huon's wife, and ""Clarisse et Florent"", the story of Yde's parents, in the cycle. The poem is punctuated by a poem titled ""Croissant"", which some scholars have named a separate chanson and which tells the story of Yde and Olive's son, after which the main story of Yde et Olive picks up again. It is perhaps the earliest Old French adaptation of the myth of Iphis. This myth is found"
"the rich and eccentric Monégasque Cartier St. Croix (who himself was the biracial son of the French aristocrat Louis St. Croix and his wife (implied to be Algerian like his own mother). She grew up as a pompous and spoiled rich girl as a result of being the favored child of her father and his prestigious position as the Monégasque Ambassador to France. She was also raised as a Muslim. Shortly after her mother’s mysterious death, her brother Marius, the vampiric mutant known as Emplate, was banished from the St. Croix home. He eventually returned after learning the dark arts"
"visits Moorish lands where he meets a beautiful black Christian princess and conceives a child with her. He returns to his own lands, and thirteen years later, his son Morien comes to find him. After a number of adventures, father and son are reunited and both return to Morien's country to take back their rightful lands. In modern works, Aglovale is the eponymous protagonist of Clemence Housman's 1905 novel ""The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis."" T. H. White's book ""The Once and Future King"" gives a particularly endearing portrait of the knight. Sir Breunor le Noir (/ˈbruːnor lə nojr/"
"Quatre Saisons"" (the Four Seasons), sold for $14,601,000 (estimate $12,000,000 – $18,000,000). In November 2009 ""Le Pont Boieldieu et la Gare d'Orléans, Rouen, Soleil"" sold for $7,026,500 at Sotheby's in New York. In February 2014 the 1897 ""Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps"", originally owned by the German industrialist and Holocaust victim Max Silberberg (), sold at Sotheby's in London for £19.9M, nearly five times the previous record. Camille's son Lucien was an Impressionist and Neo-impressionist painter as were his second and third sons Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro and Félix Pissarro. Lucien's daughter Orovida Pissarro was also a painter."
"Jean, the Soldier, and Eulalie, the Devil's Daughter Jean, the Soldier, and Eulalie, the Devil's Daughter () is a French fairy tale collected by Achille Millien. The fable is classed as Aarne-Thompson type 313 (A girl helps the hero to flee) and revolves about a transformation chase. Others of this type include ""The Water Nixie"", The ""Foundling-Bird"", ""The Master Maid"", and ""The Two Kings' Children"". The motifs contain notable similarities to the legend of Jason and Medea, in the tasks assigned to the hero, and in the help from a woman connected with the villain. Jean was coming back from"
"Son frère (film) Son frère ("""") is a 2003 French film directed by Patrice Chéreau. The screenplay, based on the Philippe Besson 2001 book ""Son frère"" (English title ""His Brother"") was written by Chéreau and Anne-Louise Trividic. Brothers Thomas (Bruno Todeschini) and Luc (Eric Caravaca) have an estranged relationship. One day, Thomas comes to Luc's apartment explaining that he is ill and asks if Luc will accompany him to the hospital. Thomas has an undetermined platelet disorder which is treated with cortisone and splenectomy—neither help. Luc, who happens to be gay, and is in a relationship with Vincent (Sylvain Jacques),"
"a few translation errors, such as the phrase ""Ton canotier avait un couteau"", which is rendered as 'Your oarsman had a knife'; a ""canotier"" is a straw hat and ""couteau"", here, means 'osprey feather'. A British edition was published in 1996 by Faber and Faber, translated by Barbara Wright. The plot concerns the efforts of a young member of the bourgeoisie, Victor Krap, to cut himself off from society and his family—while at the same time accepting hand-outs from his mother. The title, ""eleutheria"" (""ελευθερία"") is Greek for ""liberty"". Each act takes place on successive Winter days in Paris. Henri"
"Antoine Banier The abbé Antoine Banier (2 November 1673 – 2 November 1741), a French clergyman and member of the ""Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres"" from 1713, was a historian and translator, whose rationalizing interpretation of Greek mythology was widely accepted until the mid-nineteenth century. Banier, born at Dallet in Auvergne and educated at the Jesuit college at Clermont, arrived in Paris as a young man and held a place as tutor to the children of président Dumetz. In his ""Mythologie et la fable expliqués par l'histoire"" (1711, recast in dialogue form in 1715, enthusiastically received and often reprinted) he"
"his son the entire story of his conception. The young man determines that his only course of action is to return to his mother and kill her husband so that his parents can be reunited. They return to Wales, and when they arrive, they are greeted by a messenger who tells them that the lady's husband has died. Thanks to this coincidence, Milun marries his lady. Milun ""Milun"" is a Breton lai by the medieval poet Marie de France. ""Milun"" is the ninth lai in the collection known as the ""Lais of Marie de France"". Like the other lais (lays)"
"Le glaive et la balance Le glaive et la balance (English: The Sword and the Balance and Two Are Guilty)) is a 1963 French-Italian drama film directed by André Cayatte. It was written by Cayatte, Henri Jeanson and Charles Spaak. It stars the American actor, Anthony Perkins as the protagonist. On the French Riviera, the son of a wealthy local woman is kidnapped for ransom. The police soon begin an investigation into finding the boy and apprehending two assailants. The kidnappers manage to escape the clutches of the police, killing their victim in the process. But three men are eventually"
"Vicomte are hiding from the Revolutionary Guard in the attic of a house in Lyons. Out of money they have not eaten for two days and the young Vicomte is slowly starving to death. Their loyal servant Jean-Pierre is out looking for milk for the child when he passes out from hunger, awaking to the sound of two men talking in English. He tells the crowd who are after them, which direction they have gone in return for a bottle of wine and a roast capon, but he soon feels like a treacherous coward. Having dropped and broken the precious"
"Alice and Martin Alice et Martin (US title: Alice and Martin) is a 1998 French film, a psychological drama, directed by André Téchiné. It stars Juliette Binoche and Alexis Loret. It is Téchiné's second collaboration with Binoche after the 1985 film ""Rendez-vous"". The plot follows the two title characters, Martin, a male model, and Alice, a struggling violinist. Their romance is shattered when Martin's troubled past begins to haunt him. At age ten, Martin is living in Cahors with Jeanine, his hairdresser mother and her taxi-driver lover, Said. Martin is the illegitimate child of a successful business man, Victor Sauvagnac."
"Galliez report: thirty four sheets of closely written French, an unsolicited defense of Sergeant Bertrand Caillet at the latter's court-martial in 1871."" A descendant of the cursed Pitamont clan, which destroyed itself in a long feud with the neighboring Pitavals, Bertrand is born one Christmas Eve to an adolescent girl who had been raped by a priest, Father Pitamont. Bertrand grows up with strange sadistic and sexual desires which are usually expressed as dreams. Sometimes the dreams are memories of actual experiences in which he had transformed into a wolf. His step-uncle, Aymar Galliez, who raises the boy (along with"
"the mother of Safi, left in turmoil of Abidjan and unreachable ... Papa lumière Papa lumière is a French drama film directed by Ada Loueilh. Charles de Gaulle Airport, in April 2011. Jacques and Safi landed in Abidjan, where they were repatriated urgently. He has old leather tanned by Africa and he is expat life hotelier. She, her mixed race daughter of 14 years, has become accustomed to live with her mother and does not know what to think of this big mouth and crappy father who embarked with him once. Moved to a reception center in Nice, they will"