"Germinal (1993 film) Germinal is a 1993 French epic film based on the novel by Émile Zola. It was directed by Claude Berri, and stars Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou and Renaud. At the time it was the most expensive movie ever produced in France. The film had 6,161,776 admissions in France making it the 4th most attended film of the year. It won the César Award for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design, and was nominated for Best Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best director, Best Writing, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Music and Best Production Design."
"Anna Judic Anne Marie-Louise Damiens, stage name Anna Judic (18 July 1849, Semur-en-Auxois – 15 April 1911, Golfe-Juan) was a French comic actress. Her ménage à trois proved the inspiration for that in the 1880 Émile Zola novel ""Nana"". Niece of Montigny (the director of the Gymnase), in 1866 she entered the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of François-Joseph Regnier, which she left the following year to make her debut at the Gymnase in ""Les Grandes Demoiselles"", a one-act comedy by Edmond Gondinet. However, it was at the Eldorado that she first really became known, in a répertoire of"
"art. Claude's brothers are Jacques Lantier (""La bête humaine""), the engine driver who becomes a murderer and Étienne Lantier (""Germinal""), the miner who becomes a revolutionary and union agitator. Their half-sister is the prostitute Anna (Nana) Coupeau (""Nana""). Claude's son Jacques also figures in ""L'œuvre"", his death from unspecified causes being brought about by his parents' neglect. In him, Zola shows what happens when energy and natural creativity are stifled. The book includes a few autobiographical details. As a young journalist, Zola wrote many articles on art and he was deeply interested in the newest ways of painting; he was"
"roles in works such as ""Le Bourgeon"", ""Le Secret de Polichinelle"" and ""L'Âge difficile"", to which she brought ""une tendresse, une douceur et une bonhomie touchantes"" (""a tenderness, a softness and a touching affability"") before retiring to her native Burgundy. She is buried at Montmartre. Her lover was the journalist and author Albert Millaud. Anna Judic Anne Marie-Louise Damiens, stage name Anna Judic (18 July 1849, Semur-en-Auxois – 15 April 1911, Golfe-Juan) was a French comic actress. Her ménage à trois proved the inspiration for that in the 1880 Émile Zola novel ""Nana"". Niece of Montigny (the director of the"
"Blanche d'Antigny Blanche d'Antigny (May 9, 1840 – June 30, 1874) was a French singer and actress whose fame today rests chiefly on the fact that Émile Zola used her as the principal model for his novel ""Nana"". Blanche d'Antigny was born Marie Ernestine Antigny in Martizay, France. Her father, Jean Antigny, was the sacristan at a local church. At age 14 she ran off to Bucharest with a lover whom she then abandoned for some gypsies. On her return to Paris she worked in the circus and in various dance halls. She also posed for Paul Baudry for his"
"Zola in particular his ""Les Rougon-Macquart"" novel cycle, which includes ""Germinal"", ""L'Assommoir"", ""Nana"", ""Le Ventre de Paris"", ""La Bête humaine,"" and ""L'Œuvre"" ""(The Masterpiece)"", in which the social success or failure of two branches of a family is explained by physical, social and hereditary laws. Other writers who have been labeled naturalists include: Alphonse Daudet, Jules Vallès, Joris-Karl Huysmans (later a leading ""decadent"" and rebel against naturalism), Edmond de Goncourt and his brother Jules de Goncourt, and (in a very different vein) Paul Bourget. An attempt to be objective was made in poetry by the group of writers known as"
"(1880). Published in both French and English versions, it told the story of Nana's daughter, who rises from ""the gutter"" and overcomes her background to become a respectable lady. Édouard Manet, who was much taken with the description of the ""precociously immoral"" Nana in Zola's ""L'Assommoir"" gave the title ""Nana"" to his portrait of Henriette Hauser before ""Nana"" was published. The word ""nana"" has become, in contemporary French, ""a mildly rude French term for woman, comparable to broad"". Niki de Saint Phalle called a series of her sculptures ""Nanas"". They were "" bulbous, archetypal maternal figures like Mexican piñatas painted"
"respectively by and Gildas Arzel. These songs were featured on Céline Dion's latest album, ""D'elles"", which came out 21 May 2007. Nina Bouraoui Yasmina ""Nina"" Bouraoui (Ar:نينا بو راوي, born 1967) is a French/Algerian novelist and songwriter born in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, of an Algerian father from the town of Jijel and a French mother. She spent the first fourteen years of her life in Algiers, then Zürich and Abu Dhabi. She now lives in Paris. Her novels are mostly written in the first person and, with the exception of ""Avant les hommes"", have been said by the author to be"
"Zola with stories about famous prostitutes such as Blanche d'Antigny, Anna Deslions, Delphine de Lizy, and Hortense Schneider, upon which Zola drew in developing the character of his title character. ""Nana"" tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class prostitute during the last three years of the French Second Empire. Nana first appeared near the end of Zola's earlier novel Rougon-Macquart series, ""L'Assommoir"" (1877), where she is the daughter of an abusive drunk. At the conclusion of that novel, she is living in the streets and just beginning a life of prostitution. ""Nana"" opens with a night"
"Marc Almond and Michael Cashmore. Both poems were adapted and translated by Jeremy Reed. ""1960s"" ""1970s"" ""1980s"" Jean Genet Jean Genet (; – ) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels ""The Thief's Journal"" and ""Our Lady of the Flowers"", and the plays ""The Balcony"", ""The Maids"" and ""The Screens"". Genet's mother was a prostitute who raised him for the first seven months of his life before putting him up for adoption. Thereafter Genet"
"Jeanne Nardal Jeanne ""Jane"" Nardal (1900 – 1993) was a French writer, philosopher, teacher, and political commentator from Martinique. She and her sister, Paulette Nardal, are considered to have laid the theoretical and philosophical groundwork of the Négritude movement, a cultural, political, and literary movement, which first emerged in 1930s, Paris and sought to unite Black intellectuals in the current and former French colonies. The term ""Négritude"" itself was coined by Martiniquan writer-activist Aimé Césaire, one of the three individuals formally recognized as the ""fathers"" of the cultural movement, along with Senegalese poet Léopold Senghor and French Guianese writer Léon"
"(1909) by Anon (probably George Reginald Bacchus), and ""My Lustful Adventures"" (1911) by the pseudonymous 'Ramrod'; ""Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l'usage des maisons d'éducation"" (1917) and ""Trois filles de leur mère"" (1926) by Pierre Louys; ""Story of the Eye"" (1928) by Georges Bataille; ""Tropic of Cancer"" (1934) and ""Tropic of Capricorn"" (1938) by Henry Miller; The ""Story of O"" (1954) by Pauline Réage; ""Helen and Desire"" (1954) and ""Thongs"" (1955) by Alexander Trocchi; """" (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov; ""Journal"" (1966), ""Delta of Venus"" (1978) and ""Little Birds"" (1979) by Anaïs Nin and ""The Bicycle Rider"" (1985)"
"and Arturo Lopez enabled Mégret to pen ""Danaë, ""a ""roman à clef"" based on the pair. Christian Mégret Mégret Christian (11 November 1904, Vincennes – 1987), was a 20th-century French journalist and novelist, winner of the Prix Femina in 1957. Mégret Christian began his career as a colonial administrator in Togo, which inspired his first novel ""Anthropophages"" ('Cannibals') which appeared in 1934. He became a journalist at ""Jour"" in 1933 and then at ""Carrefour"" from 1945. He led a parallel career as a novelist, and in 1957 was awarded the Prix Femina for his work ""Le Carrefour des solitudes"". His"
"the two works and viewed them as two totally separate and unrelated paintings. In 1877, Edouard Manet created the painting ""Nana"" (1877). Due to its scandalous nature, Manet’s painting was not included in the yearly Salon. The inspiration for this painting was the novel ""L’Assommoir"" (1876) by Emile Zola. The model for Nana was a Parisian, Henriette Hauser. The painting shows a young, beautiful woman standing in front of a mirror. She is not completely dressed: She is wearing only a short, sleeveless bodice, a slip, silk stockings, and high – heeled shoes. Henriette is in a dressing room called"
"Nathalie Nechtschein, a young French poet; ""Je ne suis pas celle"" written by Christine Orban, a Moroccan-French novelist who has authored many books an describes herself as a romantic who treasures the female's ability to dream; ""Le temps qui compte"" with lyrics by Marie Laberge, a Quebec author known in Canada for her literature, and in other Francophone countries for her plays; ""Lettre de George Sand à Alfred de Musset"", an adaptation of a letter exchanged between two lovers in the 19th century, written by George Sand; and ""Berceuse"", a lullaby written for Dion's son René-Charles by Janette Bertrand, a"
"""Outlandish"". London: Calverts Press, 2010 Jean-Luc Nancy Jean-Luc Nancy (; ; born 26 July 1940) is a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was ""Le titre de la lettre"" (""The Title of the Letter"", 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Nancy is the author of works on many thinkers, including ""La remarque spéculative"" in 1973 (""The Speculative Remark"", 2001) on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ""Le Discours de la syncope"" (1976) and ""L’Impératif catégorique"" (1983) on Immanuel Kant, ""Ego sum"" (1979) on René Descartes, and ""Le Partage des"
"Gérard de Nerval Gérard de Nerval (; 22 May 1808 – 26 January 1855) was the ""nom-de-plume"" of the French writer, poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie. A major figure of French romanticism, he is best known for his poems and novellas, especially the collection ""Les Filles du feu"" (""The Daughters of Fire""), which includes the novella ""Sylvie"" and the poem ""El Desdichado"". He played a major role in introducing French readers to the works of German Romantic authors, including Klopstock, Schiller, Bürger and Goethe. His later work merged poetry, fiction, observation and experience, and influenced Marcel Proust, André Breton and"
"John Antoine Nau John Antoine Nau (1860–1918), real name Eugène Léon Édouard Torquet, was a French poet and writer most famous for his novel ""Enemy Force"", which won the first Prix Goncourt in 1903. He was born on November 19, 1860, in San Francisco, California and was thus an American citizen. His father, an engineer and businessman, had emigrated from France to California about 1845 and become a naturalized citizen. Attacked by typhus, he died in 1864, leaving a widow and three children. In 1866 they returned to France, first to Le Havre and then to Paris. In 1881 at"
"Jean-Luc Nancy Jean-Luc Nancy (; ; born 26 July 1940) is a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was ""Le titre de la lettre"" (""The Title of the Letter"", 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Nancy is the author of works on many thinkers, including ""La remarque spéculative"" in 1973 (""The Speculative Remark"", 2001) on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ""Le Discours de la syncope"" (1976) and ""L’Impératif catégorique"" (1983) on Immanuel Kant, ""Ego sum"" (1979) on René Descartes, and ""Le Partage des voix"" (1982) on Martin Heidegger."
"irony and sadness over the lost cause as ""an old and rugged Positivist"". The poet is the artist in words whose writing, as in the racecourse scene in ""Nana"" or in the descriptions of the laundry in ""L'Assommoir"" or in many passages of ""La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret"", ""Le Ventre de Paris"" and ""La Curée"", vies with the colourful impressionistic techniques of Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The scientist is a believer in some measure of scientific determinism – not that this, despite his own words ""devoid of free will"" (""""dépourvus de libre arbitre""""), need always amount to a philosophical"
"Dream"" was used for the first volume of his diary, published in 1991. In 1980, after his one-year national service in Charleville-Mezieres, he met Hélène Hottiaux. They son Alexandre Zannini was born in 1990; his birth was related in the fourth volume of Nabe's diary, ""Kamikaze"" (2000). His first book, ""Au Régal des Vermines"", was written while Nabe did his national service. He finished it in June 1983, and it was published in January 1985 by Bernard Barrault. The book treats jazz, writers, art, homosexuality, his parents, his wife, racism, and other topics. Some media controversy accompanied Nabe during this"
"Jeanne Marni Jean Marni or J. Marni (nee Jeanne-Marie-Francoise Barousse; Mme. Marniere; 1854-1910) was a French writer. She wrote novels, plays, and journalistic pieces. She published a short story at the age of eight, but her other works were published after 1885, after she became a widow. Known by her pseudonym, J. Marni, she wrote a number of novels that were very French in tone. The best known are ""La Femme de Silva,"" ""L'Amour Coupable,"" ""Papote,"" ""La Princesse Sablina."" Others of her works, that have been translated into English and other languages, include ""Frangoise,"" ""Reaction,"" "" Le Veilleur"" and ""La"
"of the restaurant The Good Fork, which is often turned upside-down by the mischief of the two youngest children, Tom-Tom and Nana. New heroes were created: Anatole Latuile and Ariol, who are now the main characters. Tom-Tom and Nana Tom-Tom and Nana is a French comic strip series published in the monthly magazine ""J'aime lire"" since 1977. The first authors of the series were writer Jacqueline Cohen and artist Bernadette Després. They were joined by author Evelyne Reberg, and in the most recent editions, by artist Marylise Morel. The comic book has gained success which reached a peak around 1995-2000"
"Jacques Lacan, Karl-Otto Apel, Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, Ernst Cassirer, Ernst Troeltsch, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Ludwig Feuerbach, Félix Ravaisson, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Charles Sanders Peirce, Max Weber, Dilthey, Nikolai Berdyaev, Hermann Cohen, Salomon Maimon, Paul Natorp, Hans Jonas, Augusto del Noce, Jean Nabert, Thomas Merton, Edith Stein, Leo Strauss, etc. Some contemporary authors, for example : Paul Ricoeur, Gianni Vattimo, Jean-Marie Déchanet, Emmanuel Lévinas, , , Maxence Caron, Bernard Bonnejean, , Rémi Brague, , Yves Congar, Henri de Lubac, , Stanislas Breton, Michel Henry, Francis Kaplan, , Pierre Caye, , Dominique Noguez, Charles Taylor, Habermas, Jean-Luc Marion, , , , François"
"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"
"a string of novels in such different areas as crime fiction, science fiction and children's literature. Some of his books have been translated into other languages, in particular into English and German. For his novel ""Le Témoin est à la noce"" he received the Prix du Roman d’Aventures in 1984. Alexis Lecaye Alexis Lecaye (born August 22, 1951 in Alexandria, Egypt) is French author and script writer. He publishes under the pen name Alexandre Terrel as well and is probably best known for the creation of the long running TV crime series Julie Lescaut. Lecaye grew up in Lebanon and"
"was published three years later. Perhaps Manet found inspiration in ""L'Assommoir"", Zola's previous book, in which the character of Nana appears for the first time. Nana (painting) Nana is a painting by French painter Édouard Manet. It was completed in 1877 and was refused at the Salon of Paris the same year. The work is now at the Kunsthalle Hamburg art museum in Germany. The painting shows a young and beautiful woman who stands before a mirror with two extinguished candles, her face turned to the spectator. Her dress is incomplete; she wears a white chemise, blue corset, silk stockings"
"Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (; ; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline ""J'Accuse…!"" Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902. Zola was born in Paris in 1840. His father,"
"Jane de La Vaudère Jane de la Vaudère was the pen name of Jeanne Scrive, a French novelist, poet and playwright who was born April 15, 1857, in Paris, and died on July 26, 1908. Her father was a famous doctor, Gaspard-Léonard Scrive, Surgeon-General of the French Army during the Crimean War. She is considered by contemporary critics a participant in the Decadent movement and Naturalism. Her poetic works include ""Les Heures perdues"", ""L'Eternelle chanson"", ""Minuit"", and ""Evocation"". She is also remembered for a collection of decadent novels and short stories, such as ""Les Androgynes"" (1903), ""Les Demi-Sexes"" (1897), or"
"J'Accuse…! ""J'Accuse...!"" (, ""I Accuse...!"") was an open letter published on 13 January 1898 in the newspaper ""L'Aurore"" by the influential writer Émile Zola. In the letter, Zola addressed President of France Félix Faure and accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army General Staff officer who was sentenced to lifelong penal servitude for espionage. Zola pointed out judicial errors and lack of serious evidence. The letter was printed on the front page of the newspaper and caused a stir in France and abroad. Zola was prosecuted for libel and found guilty on"
"time: after a February 1985 taping of the TV program ""Apostrophes"", an hour-long show devoted to books, authors and literature, Nabe was aggressively accosted by a journalist, Georges-Marc Benamou; because he references Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Leon Bloy, and Lucien Rebatet, Nabe is accused of being an antisemite and a racist. After the program, his book was sold out, and Nabe was sued by the Licra (Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l’antisémitisme), an anti-racist association. In 1989, the charges were dropped. His second book, ""Zigzags"" (1986) is a compilation of various texts (essays, short stories, poetry, etc.) In 1986, he published"
"carried through to her last novel, ""Here"", published in 1995, in which the author explores a range of existential issues relating to the formlessness of both individual and social reality. Agnès Varda dedicated her 1985 film ""Sans toit ni loi"" (Vagabonde) to her. Nathalie Sarraute Nathalie Sarraute (; July 18, 1900 – October 19, 1999) was a French lawyer and writer. Sarraute was born Natalia Ilinichna Tcherniak (Russian Ната́лья Ильи́нична Черня́к, Natalya Chernyak) in Ivanovo (then known as Ivanovo-Voznesensk), 300 km north-east of Moscow in 1900 (although she frequently referred to the year of her birth as 1902, a date"
"The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film, set in the nineteenth century, closely follows the plot of the novel, which is a realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s. The movie was well received by the critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 90% of 10 critics gave the film a positive review, for an average rating of 6.9/10. Germinal (1993 film) Germinal is a 1993 French epic film based on the novel by"