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Les Hommes de bonne volonté (transl. Men of Good Will) is an epic roman-fleuve by French writer Jules Romains, published in 27 volumes between 1932 and 1946. It has been classified both as a novel cycle and a novel and, at two million words and 7,892 pages, has been cited as one of the longest novels ever written.
8 March 1961. (1961-03-08) (aged 85) Paris. Occupation. Literary historian. Mario Roques (1 July 1875 – 8 March 1961) was a French scholar, professor of history of medieval literature and renowned Romance philologist. He translated and edited Le Roman de Renart .
Etymology. The term collaborate dates from 1871, and is a back-formation from collaborator (1802), from the French collaborateur.It was used during the Napoleonic Wars against smugglers trading with England and assisting in the escape of monarchists.
Jules Gabriel Verne (/ v ɜːr n /; French: [ʒyl ɡabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas ...
Hédi Kaddour was born of a Tunisian father and a French mother. Received 1st at the aggregation of modern letters, he is a translator of English, German and Arabic. He taught French literature and dramaturgy at the École normale supérieure de Lyon (ex ENS de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud) and journalistic writing at the Centre de formation des ...
Auguste-Maurice Barrès (French:; 19 August 1862 – 4 December 1923) was a French novelist, journalist, philosopher, and politician.Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work The Cult of the Self in 1888.
The Roman salute, also known as the Fascist salute, is a gesture in which the right arm is fully extended, facing forward, with palm down and fingers touching. In some versions, the arm is raised upward at an angle; in others, it is held out parallel to the ground.
MC Solaar. Claude Honoré M'Barali ( French pronunciation: [klod ɔnɔʁe ɛmbaʁali]; born 5 March 1969), professionally known as MC Solaar ( pronounced [ɛm si sɔˈlaʁ] ), is a French rapper of Senegalese and Chadian origin. He is one of France's most famous and influential hip hop artists.