Who wrote the book Beau Geste?
"Beau Geste (TV series) Beau Geste is a BBC television serial, based on the novel by P. C. Wren. The series aired on BBC1 from 31 October to 19 December 1982 and starred Benedict Taylor, Anthony Calf and Jonathon Morris as the three brothers. Although minor plot points separate the versions, all of the versions share a common element of a stolen gem, which one of the Geste brothers, Beau Geste, is thought to have stolen from his adoptive family. This version, unlike the Hollywood movies, stays true to the book, in that the three young brothers join the legion,"
"P. C. Wren Percival Christopher Wren (1 November 187522 November 1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for ""Beau Geste"", a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. This was one of 33 novels and short story collections that he wrote, mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa. Percival Christopher Wren was born in Deptford, South London, England, the son of a schoolmaster. His literary influences included Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, and H. Rider Haggard. He graduated with a Master of Arts degree from St"
"The Last Remake of Beau Geste The Last Remake of Beau Geste is a 1977 American historical comedy film. It starred and was also directed and co-written by Marty Feldman. It is a satire loosely based on the novel ""Beau Geste"", a frequently-filmed story of brothers and their adventures in the French Foreign Legion. The humor is based heavily upon wordplay and absurdity. Feldman plays Digby Geste, the awkward and clumsy ""identical twin"" brother of Michael York's Beau, the dignified, aristocratic swashbuckler. It was the feature film directorial debut of Feldman. He subsequently went on to direct ""In God We"
"officer of Spahis who plays a secondary role in ""Beau Geste"") and ""Beau Ideal"". In this third volume Wren details what happened the night of the theft of the Blue Water. He also wrote ""Good Gestes"", a collection of short tales (about half of them about the Geste brothers and their American friends Hank and Buddy, who also feature prominently in ""Beau Sabreur"" and ""Beau Ideal"") and ""Spanish Maine"" (UK) (""The Desert Heritage"" (USA)), where loose ends are tied up and the successive tales of John Geste's adventures come to an end. Life in the Foreign Legion is also represented"
"Jean d'Outremeuse Jean d'Outremeuse or ""Jean des Preis"" (1338 in Liège – 1400) was a writer and historian who wrote two romanticised historical works and a lapidary. ""La Geste de Liége"" is an account of the mythical history of his native city, Liège, written partly in prose and partly in verse. It was probably based on an existing text and consists of three books: book one, in 40,000 lines, book two, in 12,224 lines with prose summaries, book three, has been lost, but a few passages have been found. ""Ly Myreur des Histors"" (""The Mirror of Histories"") is a more"
"which was not published until after his death. He died in Paris on 4 July 1848, during the French Revolution of 1848. in 1832 Honoré de Balzac conceived the idea of a series of books that would paint a panoramic portrait of ""all aspects of society;"" eventually called ""La Comédie Humaine"". He declared to his sister, ""I am about to become a genius."" He published ""Eugénie Grandet"", his first bestseller, in 1833, followed by ""Le Père Goriot"" in 1835, the two-volume ""Illusions perdues"" in 1843, ""Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes"" in 1847, ""Le Cousin Pons"" (1847) and ""La Cousine Bette"""
"Jean Baudrais Jean Baudrais (14 August 1749, Tours – 4 May 1832, Bicêtre from cholera) was an 18th–19th-century French writer and magistrate. Based in Paris, where he married, since the age of twenty, he published in 1781 ""l'Allégresse villageoise"", an entertainment mingled with singing and dancing, on the occasion of the birth of the Dauphin. Then he published ""La Vanité est bonne à quelque chose"", a mock-heroic poem, in 1782, ""le Dieu Mars désarmé"", entertainment in verse on the occasion of the treaty of Versailles of 1783. Author of numerous theater plays, he also was a publisher, publishing with Leprince"
"Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. De Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, autobiography and monographs on philosophy, politics and social issues. She was known for her 1949 treatise ""The Second Sex"", a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism; and for her novels, including ""She Came to Stay"" and"
"Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. De Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, autobiography and monographs on philosophy, politics and social issues. She was known for her 1949 treatise ""The Second Sex"", a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism; and for her novels, including ""She Came to Stay"" and"
"Bonjour Tristesse Bonjour Tristesse () is a novel by Françoise Sagan. Published in 1954, when the author was only 18, it was an overnight sensation. The title is derived from a poem by Paul Éluard, ""À peine défigurée"", which begins with the lines ""Adieu tristesse/Bonjour tristesse..."" An English-language film adaptation was released in 1958, directed by Otto Preminger. 17-year-old Cécile spends her summer in a villa on the French Riviera with her father Raymond and his current mistress, the young, superficial, fashionable Elsa, who gets on well with Cécile. Raymond is an attractive, worldly, amoral man who excuses his serial"
"Claude Pujade-Renaud Claude Pujade-Renaud (born 1932) is a French writer, whose first novel ""Le Ventriloque"" appeared in 1978. Since that time she has published over twenty novels, short-story and poetry collections, as well as combined creative works with long-time partner Daniel Zimmermann. She won the prix Goncourt des lycéens in 1994 for ""Belle mère"", her novel on stepmothering, and is a recipient of the French Writer's Guild Prize for her life's work. A dance teacher, she taught Body Expression courses at the University of Paris-VIII, and is the author of a number of pedagogical texts relating to the body and"
"in another home, he died during the 1829–51 cholera pandemic at the age of 83. Jean Baudrais Jean Baudrais (14 August 1749, Tours – 4 May 1832, Bicêtre from cholera) was an 18th–19th-century French writer and magistrate. Based in Paris, where he married, since the age of twenty, he published in 1781 ""l'Allégresse villageoise"", an entertainment mingled with singing and dancing, on the occasion of the birth of the Dauphin. Then he published ""La Vanité est bonne à quelque chose"", a mock-heroic poem, in 1782, ""le Dieu Mars désarmé"", entertainment in verse on the occasion of the treaty of Versailles"
"19th century, with ""La Belle Jardiniere"" (1824), ""Aux Trois Quartiers"" (1829), and ""Le Petit Saint Thomas"" (1830). Balzac described their functioning in his novel ""César Birotteau"". In the 1840s, the new railroads brought wealthy consumers to Paris from a wide region. Luxury stores grew in size, and featured plate glass display windows, fixed prices and price tags, and advertising in newspapers. The entrepreneur Aristide Boucicaut in 1852 took ""Au Bon Marché"", a small shop in Paris, set fixed prices (with no need to negotiate with clerks), and offered guarantees that allowed exchanges and refunds. He invested heavily in advertising, and"
"Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert (; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his debut novel ""Madame Bovary"" (1857), his ""Correspondence"", and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert. Flaubert was born on 12 December 1821, in Rouen, in the Seine-Maritime department of Upper Normandy, in northern France. He was the second son of Anne Justine Caroline (née Fleuriot; 1793–1872) and Achille-Cléophas Flaubert"
"the ""chansons de geste"" into three cycles: the ""Geste du roi"" centering on Charlemagne, the ""Geste de Garin de Monglane"" (whose central character was William of Orange), and the ""Geste de Doon de Mayence"" or the ""rebel vassal cycle"", the most famous characters of which were Renaud de Montauban and Girart de Roussillon. A fourth grouping, not listed by Bertrand, is the ""Crusade cycle"", dealing with the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath. Jean Bodel's other two categories—the ""Matter of Rome"" and the ""Matter of Britain""—concern the French romance or ""roman"". Around a hundred verse romances survive from the period"
"Un gentilhomme Un gentilhomme is a novel by the French novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, published by Flammarion in 1920, after his death. Only three chapters were published. It was in the mid-1890s that Octave Mirbeau first began contemplating work on a novel on a great landowner. In 1900 he had entertained the idea of a book of epic dimensions – like Leo Tolstoy's ""War and Peace"" – except set in France in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, beginning at the time of the Marshall Mac-Mahon's ""coup d'état"" on May 16, 1877. However, the three chapters published by"
"Boucicaut, the son of a small clothing-shop owner, became partner in a variety store called Le Bon Marché in Paris in 1848. He became owner in 1852 and transformed it into the first modern department store in Paris with high-volume buying, low profit margins, seasonal sales, discounts, advertising, a mail-order catalog, and entertainment and prizes for customers, spouses and children. The French gloried in the national prestige brought by the great Parisian stores. Émile Zola set his novel ""Au Bonheur des Dames"" (1882–83) in a typical department store, based on research he did at Le Bon Marché in 1880. Zola"
"home town of Bellēme. Aristide Boucicaut Aristide Boucicaut (; July 14, 1810 – December 26, 1877) was a French entrepreneur who created ""Le Bon Marché"", the first modern department store. Born in Bellême, in the Orne department on 14 July 1810, Boucicaut was the son of the owner of a small shop that sold fabrics, ribbons and other items for a woman's wardrobe. Boucicaut worked in the family shop, then, at the age of 18, as a street vendor selling fabrics. In 1834 he moved to Paris and went to work in a novelty store on rue de Bac, the"
"André Gide André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars. The author of ""more than fifty books,"" at the time of his death his obituary in ""The New York Times"" described him as ""France's greatest contemporary man of letters"" and ""judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."" Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works,"
"within a new habitat. The name of the hypothesis comes from the book which was originally published in 1924 ""Beau Geste"". The book tells the story of three English brothers which all enlisted in the French Foreign Legion and ended up in a desert battle against a Tuareg army. They were greatly outnumbered, and in order to create the illusion that they had more men then they actually had, they took whatever dead soldiers they could find and propped them up along the walls of the fortress. There has been mention of this hypothesis in places such as research into"
"In the next two years, Cooper was more discerning about the roles he accepted and made four successful large-scale adventure and cowboy films. In William A. Wellman's adventure film ""Beau Geste"" (1939), he plays one of three daring English brothers who join the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara to fight local tribes. Filmed in the same Mojave Desert locations as the original 1926 version with Ronald Colman, ""Beau Geste"" provided Cooper with magnificent sets, exotic settings, high-spirited action, and a role tailored to his personality and screen persona. This was the last film in Cooper's contract with Paramount. In"
"in Britain. While his fictional accounts of life in the pre-1914 Foreign Legion are highly romanticised, his details of Legion uniforms, training, equipment and barrack room layout are generally accurate. This may, however, simply reflect careful research on his part. The descriptions of Legion garrison life given in his work ""The Wages of Virtue"", published in 1916, closely match those contained in the autobiographical ""In the Foreign Legion"" by ex-legionnaire Edwin Rosen, published by Duckworth London 1910. Similarly, the episode of the fallen soldiers in ""Beau Geste"", who were propped up by Sergeant Major Lejaune to create the impression that"
"Gesta Romanorum Gesta Romanorum is a Latin collection of anecdotes and tales that was probably compiled about the end of the 13th century or the beginning of the 14th. It still possesses a two-fold literary interest, first as one of the most popular books of the time, and secondly as the source, directly or indirectly, of later literature, in Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Giovanni Boccaccio, Thomas Hoccleve, William Shakespeare, and others. Of its authorship nothing certain is known. It is conjecture to associate it either with the name of Helinandus or with that of Petrus Berchorius (Pierre Bercheure). It is"
"Les Belles Lettres Les Belles Lettres is a French publisher specialising in the publication of ancient texts such as the ""Collection Budé"". The publishing house, originally named ""Société Les Belles Lettres pour le développement de la culture classique"", was founded by the Association Guillaume Budé, with the initial goal of publishing Greek and Latin classics. According to the usual story, the history of ""Belles Lettres"" began in World War I when the linguist Joseph Vendryes wanted a critical edition of Homer to include in his field pack, but could find only German editions. At the end of the war, the"
"Beau Masque Beau Masque (Handsome Face) is a Franco-Italian film directed by Bernard Paul and released in 1972. In a region in the east of France, Pierrette, (Dominique Labourier), a young mill worker devotes herself totally to her trade union activity even to the detriment of her private life. She has separated from her husband and left her child in the care of a relative. Two men enter into her life. She crosses first the path of an émigré Italian, nicknamed ""Beau Masque"", (Luigi Diberti), a truck driver. Then, at the time of a dance organised by the French Communist"
"Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel ""Les Enfants Terribles"" (1929), and the films ""The Blood of a Poet"" (1930), ""Les Parents Terribles"" (1948), ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1946) and ""Orpheus"" (1949). He was described as ""one of [the] avant-garde's most successful and influential filmmakers"" by AllMovie. Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, a town near Paris, to Georges Cocteau and his wife, Eugénie Lecomte; a socially prominent Parisian family. His father was a lawyer"
"Aristide Boucicaut Aristide Boucicaut (; July 14, 1810 – December 26, 1877) was a French entrepreneur who created ""Le Bon Marché"", the first modern department store. Born in Bellême, in the Orne department on 14 July 1810, Boucicaut was the son of the owner of a small shop that sold fabrics, ribbons and other items for a woman's wardrobe. Boucicaut worked in the family shop, then, at the age of 18, as a street vendor selling fabrics. In 1834 he moved to Paris and went to work in a novelty store on rue de Bac, the Petit Saint-Thomas, which sold"
"Eugénie Grandet Eugénie Grandet is an 1833 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac, about miserliness and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eugénie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. Balzac conceived his ambitious project, ""The Human Comedy"", while writing ""Eugénie Grandet"" and incorporated it into the ""Comédie"" by revising the names of some of the characters in the second edition, which he also dedicated to Maria Du Fresnay, his then-lover and mother of his daughter Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay, and, as was proved later on, the ""real"" Eugénie Grandet. ""Eugénie Grandet"" is set in"
"and conventions inherited from 19th-century France. He sought to uncover the authentic self beneath its contradictory masks."" In his journal, Gide distinguishes between adult-attracted ""sodomites"" and boy-loving ""pederasts"", categorizing himself as the latter. In the company of Oscar Wilde, he had several sexual encounters with young boys abroad. Gide's novel ""Corydon"", which he considered his most important work, erects a defense of pederasty. Notes Sources André Gide André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in"
"René Bazin René François Nicolas Marie Bazin (26 December 1853 – 20 July 1932) was a French novelist. Born at Angers, he studied law in Paris, and on his return to Angers became Professor of Law in the Catholic university. In 1876, Bazin married Aline Bricard. The couple had two sons and six daughters. He contributed to Parisian journals a series of sketches of provincial life and descriptions of travel, and wrote ""Stephanette"" (1884), but he made his reputation with ""Une Tache d'Encre"" (""A Spot of Ink"") (1888), which received a prize from the Academy. He was admitted to the"
"Luke Thrice. Other pseudonyms include Edward Rutledge, Andrew Peirce, George Jerry Osborn and Matthew Primus. Russell died in Santa Monica, California in 1956. John Russell (screenwriter) John Russell (22 April 1885 - 6 March 1956) was an American author and screenwriter. Born in Davenport, Iowa, in 1885, Russell wrote for the New York City News Association news agency, and then for the New York Tribune. ""The Pagan"" was based on one of his stories, and he wrote the screenplay for ""Beau Geste"". As author he was best known for his short stories, originally written for a wide range of magazines"
"Beau Hunks Beau Hunks is a 1931 American Pre-Code Laurel and Hardy film, directed by James W. Horne. The title is a reference to he novel ""Beau Geste"" (1924), and to the common ethnic slur of the time, ""bohunk"". At 37 minutes, it is the longest L&H short. The French Foreign Legion scenario was remade as ""The Flying Deuces"" with Charles B. Middleton again playing their commanding officer. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart Jeanie-Weenie (only ever seen as a photograph) rejects him, as it is the only place where Ollie can forget"
"François-Régis Bastide François-Régis Bastide (1 July 1926; Biarritz – 16 April 1996; Paris) was a French writer, diplomat, politician, and radio host. Bastide was born in Biarritz in the French Basque Country on 1 July 1926 and attended school in Bayonne. In October 1944 he joined the 2nd Armored Division led by General Leclerc and participated in the last phase of the WWII Western Front operations. Bastide published his first book, the novel ""Lettre de Bavière"", in 1947. He continued to publish books regularly and won the Grand Prix de la Critique for his 1953 biographical essay ""Saint-Simon par lui"