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Gérard Depardieu was born in Châteauroux, Indre, France, to Anne Jeanne Josèphe (Marillier) and René Maxime Lionel Depardieu, who was a metal worker and fireman. Young delinquent and wanderer in the past, Depardieu started his acting career at the small traveling theatre "Café de la Gare", along with Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou. After minor roles in cinema, at last, he got his chance in Bertrand Blier's Going Places (1974). That film established a new type of hero in the French cinema and the actor's popularity grew enormously. Later, he diversified his screen image and became the leading French actor of the 80s and 90s. He was twice awarded a César as Best Actor for The Last Metro (1980) and Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), also received an Oscar nomination for "Cyrano" and a number of awards at international film festivals. In 1996, he was distinguished by the highest French title of "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur". He married Elisabeth Depardieu in 1971, and they divorced in 1996; she appeared with him in Jean de Florette (1986) and Manon of the Spring (1986); their children Guillaume Depardieu and Julie Depardieu are both actors.- Actor
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Jacques Villeret was born on 6 February 1951 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Le Dîner de Cons (1998), Robert et Robert (1978) and Malevil (1981). He was married to Irina Tarassov. He died on 28 January 2005 in Evreux, Eure, France.- Actress
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Catherine Jourdan was born on 12 October 1948 in Azay-le-Rideau, Indre-et-Loire, France. She was an actress, known for The Samurai (1967), The Leatherstocking Tales (1969) and Vortex (1976). She died on 18 February 2011 in Paris, France.- Actor
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Jean Carmet was born on 25 April 1920 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Les Misérables (1982), Bouvard et Pecuchet (1990) and The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972). He was married to Raymonde Machet. He died on 20 April 1994 in Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Actor
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Bernard Le Coq was born on 25 September 1950 in Le Blanc, Indre, France. He is an actor, known for Joyeux Noel (2005), Van Gogh (1991) and Caché (2005).- Director
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Antony Cordier was born on 17 February 1973 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. He is a director and writer, known for Cold Showers (2005), Beau comme un camion (2000) and Four Lovers (2010).- Composer
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Zaz was born on 1 May 1980 in Chambray-lès-Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. She is a composer and actress, known for Hugo (2011), Dead Man Down (2013) and A Simple Favor (2018).- Producer
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Jean Chalopin was born on 31 May 1950 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. He is a producer and writer, known for Inspector Gadget (1999), Inspector Gadget (1983) and The Hitchhiker (1983). He has been married to Ethel Fong since 1998. They have two children.- Writer
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Honoré de Balzac was a French writer whose works have been made into films, such as, Cousin Bette (1998) starring Jessica Lange, and television serials, such as Cousin Bette (1971), starring Margaret Tyzack and Helen Mirren.
He was born on March 20, 1799, in Tours, France. His father, Bernard Francois Balzac, was a government regional administrator who married a daughter of his boss. The family moved to Paris in 1815. There Balzac went to the Sorbonne, matriculated in jurisprudence and became a clerk for an attorney.
Balzac's efforts at publishing his early novels under a pseudonym and in his own publishing company failed, and he went into debt. His activity as a journalist brought recognition among intellectuals for his political and cultural reviews, which resonated with the mixed social expectations during the Restoration. However, with the 1830 fall of the Bourbon monarchy came the new, "bourgeous" (or capitalist) monarchy, a chimera doomed to fall in the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe. Such was the political background for Balzac's literary works.
Balzac created the idea of a serialized cross-genre web of stories and novels, linked together as a broad historic panorama of lives and events. This idea was implemented in his "La Comedie humane" ("The Human Comedy"). It included about 100 stories, novels and essays, some of them unfinished. Such a vast body of handwriting could not be possible without an obsession. His plans and plots grew constantly and often changed, just to include a new idea based on a fresh gossip. Altogether his works reflected on a mosaic of life in Paris, and France in general, from the 1820s to 1850.
"Les Chouans" (1829) was a prologue to the collection of Balsac's interconnected works, known as the Human Comedy; it really opened with "Scenes de la Vie Privee", six Scenes From a Private Life (1830-1832) and "La Peau de chagrin" (The Goat-skin 1831). Balzac was writing 14 to 18 hours a day and often through the night, constantly doping himself with countless cups of coffee. He draw upon ideas from the works of Walter Scott and William Shakespeare, as in 1835's "Le pere Goriot" ("Father Goriot"), a "King Lear" type of story set in 1820s Paris. He also created many of his own purely original plots and introduced over 2,000 characters through the books of the Human Comedy. The largest "stones" in his pyramid of fiction are "Eugene Grande" (1833), a thousand-page saga; "Les Illusions Perdues" ("Lost Illusions"); "Le cousin Pons" (1847), "La Cousine Bette" (1848). His novel "Eugenia Grande" was translated into Russian in 1844 by the young writer Fyodor Dostoevsky.
One year before his death, being in declining health, Balzac traveled to Poland to see his pen-friend of 15 years, Countess Evelina Hanska. She was a wealthy lady of the Polish nobility. They married in Berdichev, Russian Empire, in 1850, when Balzac had only three months left to live. He died on August 18, 1850, in Paris, and was laid to rest in the cemetery of Père Lachaise.- Born in Chateauroux, France, Matthieu Charneau moved to Paris after high school where he applied and was accepted into the prestigious Cours Florent, a legendary French acting school.
Soon thereafter a string of successful short-films followed, most notably Coup de Grace, directed by Justin Wu, which was selected at the International Film Festival of San Jose.
This visibility offered Matthieu to collaborate with renowned artists such as Frank Ocean, Pierre and Gilles, Ricardo Gomes, Laurent Humbert... being featured in numerous editorials for publications such as V Magazine, Out Magazine, i-D, Citizen K, Yearbook, Les Inrockuptibles and quickly gained notoriety.
After his acting school graduation, in 2015, Charneau joins Lee Jones, Stephen Moyer and Katey Sagal in Kurt Sutter's new FX Series The Bastard Executioner and in 2016, he plays in Les Nouvelles Folies Francaises, directed by Thomas Blanchard.
Portuguese Director, Carlos Conceicao's Bad Bunny, featuring Matthieu Charneau in a leading role, premiered at the 70th Cannes Films Festival in May 2017 and was selected at the 40th Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2018, and the 48th edition of New Directors/New Films at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The MoMA in New York.
In 2017, Matthieu worked with British-Nigerian director Joseph a. Adesunloye on his second feature film Faces; a follow up to his much acclaimed White Colour Black. Faces is a multi-narrative feature film set in London. The film which features international stars Terry Pheto & Shingai Shoniwa sees Matthieu playing the leading role of Gaspard and won the Best LGBTQ Feature Film Award at the International Durban Film Festival in 2018.
Continuing on his thriving journey in films de genre, Matthieu has reunited this year with Portuguese Director Carlos Conceicao on his new feature film - Um Fio De Baba Escarlate / Name Above Title - set in Portugal and centered around the exploits of an infamous serial killer, played by Charneau himself.
During the last couple years, Matthieu has been experimenting his passion for film-making while shooting and directing short films on cellphones, using the raw aspect to tell stories set between fiction and nonfiction. His first music video, featuring American singer artist Vylet will be airing at the end of 2019. - Actor
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Born in 1981 in Chambray les Tours, Brice is a model as well as a TV and film actor. His mother tongue is French, and he speaks Italian and English as well. He has modeled and posed for the greatest designers in the world, including Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Calvin Klein, Adidas, Reebok and Arena. In addition, he received worldwide notoriety for an advertisement in which he appears nude. (You can view the video here.)
Brice made his cinema debut in 2012, as the main character Faraz, an Iranian student in the Italian comedy "Universitari Molto Piu Che Amici." In the same year he was a finalist in the French reality show Survivor on TF1. In 2015 he was a finalist of the Italian reality show Survivor (VIP edition) on Canale5 "L'Isola dei Famosi." Brice is married to Elena Falbo, an Italian photographer. Brice and Elena met in 2005 in Bora Bora (French Polynesia). They split their time between their homes in France and Italy.- Georges Lycan was born on 8 May 1924 in Francueil, Indre-et-Loire, France. He was an actor, known for Gold for the Caesars (1963), Triple Cross (1966) and Red Sun (1971). He died on 6 February 2006 in Paris, France.
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Jacques Revaux was born on 11 July 1940 in Azay-sur-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, France. He is a composer and actor, known for The Astronaut's Wife (1999), Goodfellas (1990) and 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001).- Additional Crew
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René Descartes (Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; 31 March 1596 - 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist and lay Catholic who invented analytic geometry, linking the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra. He spent a large portion of his working life in the Dutch Republic, initially serving the Dutch States Army of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange and the Stadtholder of the United Provinces. One of the most notable intellectual figures of the Dutch Golden Age, Descartes is also widely regarded as one of the founders of modern philosophy.- Blanche Montel was born on 14 August 1902 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. She was an actress, known for Three Musketeers (1932), La belle Nivernaise (1924) and L'Arlésienne (1930). She was married to Henri Decoin. She died on 31 March 1998 in Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France.
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Patrick Jamain was born on 5 June 1944 in Châteauroux, Indre, France. He was a director and assistant director, known for François Kléber (1995), L'affaire Crazy Capo (1973) and Honeymoon (1985). He died on 22 February 2023 in Châteauroux, Indre, France.- Director
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Jeanne Labrune was born on 21 June 1950 in Luant, Indre, France. She is a director and writer, known for Sans un cri (1991), Correspondance privée sur un lieu public (1988) and Beware of My Love (1998).- Production Manager
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- Producer
Benjamin Lanlard was born on 20 July 1972 in Châteauroux, Indre, France. He is a production manager and actor, known for Print-Maker, La Déesse du Crépuscule and I Am Not a Witch (2017).- Music Artist
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- Composer
Amel Bent was born on 21 June 1985 in Joué-lès-Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. She is a music artist and actress, known for High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008), Je reste (2012) and Foreign Investigations (2010). She has been married to Patrick Antonelli since 15 June 2015. They have two children.- Director
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Catherine Binet was born on 13 March 1937 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. She was a director and writer, known for The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981), Spring (1971) and Trompe-l'oeil (1982). She died on 20 February 2006 in Paris, France.- Composer
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Sinclair was born on 19 July 1970 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. He is a composer and actor, known for The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008), Mon idole (2002) and Ma vie en l'air (2005). He was previously married to Emma de Caunes.- François Rabelais was a French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He is primarily known as a writer of satire, of the grotesque, and of bawdy jokes and songs.
Ecclesiastical and anticlerical, Christian and considered by some as a free thinker, a doctor and having the image of a "Bon Vivant", the multiple facets of his personality sometimes seem contradictory. Caught up in the religious and political turmoil of the Reformation, Rabelais showed himself to be both sensitive and critical towards the great questions of his time. Subsequently, the views of his life and work have evolved according to the times and currents of thought. - Aude Amiot was born on 23 January 1964 in Saint-Symphorien, Indre-et-Loire, France. She was an actress, known for Oh, Woe Is Me (1993), Drancy Avenir (1997) and Nos amours retardataires (1994). She died on 30 August 2012 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France.
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Francis Girod was born on 9 October 1944 in Semblançay, Indre-et-Loire, France. He was a director and actor, known for Le bon plaisir (1984), Transfixed (2001) and The Infernal Trio (1974). He died on 19 November 2006 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.- Catherine Davenier was born on 23 December 1953 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. She is an actress, known for In the House (2012), 99 Francs (2007) and Samba (2014).