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Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti (10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Alberto Giacometti was born in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland and came from an artistic background; his father, Giovanni, was a well-known Post-Impressionist painter. Alberto was the eldest of four children and was interested in art from the beginning of his life.
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Alfonso Reyes
:For the professional basketball player, see Alfonso Reyes (basketball)
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Alice Prin
Alice Ernestine Prin (2 October 1901 – 29 April 1953), nicknamed Queen of Montparnasse, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French artist model, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated, early 1920s culture of Paris.
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Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian artist who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overwork, and addiction to alcohol and narcotics.
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Anatole France
Anatole France (16 April 1844—12 October 1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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André Breton
André Breton (; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the principal founder of Surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".
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Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
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Bill Bird
William Augustus Bird (1888 – 1963) was an American journalist, now remembered for his hobby, the Three Mountains Press, a small press he ran while in Paris in the 1920s for the Consolidated Press Association. Taken over by Nancy Cunard in 1928, it became the Hours Press, and continued its association with many of the most important modernists; Ezra Pound had a position as editor for Three Mountains from 1923.
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Camilo Mori
Camilo Mori Serrano (September 24, 1896 in Valparaíso, Chile – December 7, 1973 in Santiago, Chile) was a painter and a founder of the Grupo Montparnasse.
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Caresse Crosby
Caresse Crosby (April 20, 1892 - January 26, 1970), born Mary Phelps Jacob, was a patron of the arts, poet, publisher, and peace activist. She took on the name Polly in childhood. Her parents William Hearns Jacob and Mary Phelps were both descended from American colonial families, William from the Van Renssalear family and Mary from William Phelps. At age 19, she invented the first modern brassiere to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance. Her life at first followed convention. In 1915, she married the well-to-do Richard R. Peabody, whose family had arrived in New Hampshire in 1635. They had two children, but following Richard's service in World War I, Richard turned into a drunk who loved to watch buildings burn. Polly met Harry Crosby at a picnic in 1920 and they had sex within two weeks. Their public relationship scandalized proper blue blood Boston society.
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Carmelo Gonzalez
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Chaim Soutine
Chaïm Soutine (January 13, 1893 – August 9, 1943) was a Jewish painter from what is now Belarus. Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris.
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire (; April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
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Constantin Brâncuşi
Constantin Brâncuşi (; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was an internationally renowned Romanian sculptor whose works, which blend simplicity and sophistication, led the way for numerous modernist sculptors.
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D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.
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Diego Rivera
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Gto, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo (1929–1939 and 1940–1954). His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City. In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.
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Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas[[#Notes|[p]]] (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas (), was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. A superb draughtsman, he is especially identified with the subject of the dance, and over half his works depict dancers. These display his mastery in the depiction of movement, as do his racecourse subjects and female nudes. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and depiction of human isolation.
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran (; April 8, 1911 – June 20, 1995) was a Romanian philosopher and essayist.
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Erik Satie
Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie.
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway's fiction was successful because the characters he presented exhibited authenticity that resonated with his audience. Many of his works are classics of American literature. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published .
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Eugene Jolas
John George Eugene Jolas (October 26, 1894 – May 26, 1952) was a writer, translator and literary critic.
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Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic, and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry, known in particular for his role in developing Imagism, which favored clear language, a lack of rhetoric, and precision of imagery. His best-known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his epic poem The Cantos (1925–1964).
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night and his most famous, the celebrated classic, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.
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Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of Cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of Pop Art.
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Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford (17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. He is now best remembered for The Good Soldier (1915) and the ''Parade's End tetralogy. The Good Soldier'' is frequently included among the great literature of the past century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, The Observer's '100 Greatest Novels of All Time', and The Guardian's '1000 novels everyone must read'.
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Félix Mayol
Félix Mayol (November 18, 1872 - November 1, 1941) was a French singer and entertainer.
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Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (; 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers. Among his best-known works are his Nocturnes for piano, the songs "Après un rêve" and "Clair de lune", and his Requiem.
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Georges Guibourg
Georges Guibourg (June 3, 1891 - January 8, 1970) was a French singer, author, writer, playwright, and actor, George Guibourg, alias Georgius, alias Theodore Crapulet, was one of the most popular and versatile performers in Paris for more than 50 years.
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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American writer and thinker who spent most of her life in France. She was well known due to her writing, art collection and the many people (some of whom were, or became, famous) who visited her Paris salon.
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Hart Crane
Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that is difficult, highly stylized, and very ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, The Bridge, Crane sought to write an epic poem in the vein of The Waste Land that expressed something more sincere and optimistic than the ironic despair that Crane found in Eliot's poetry. In the years following his death at the age of 32, Crane has come to be seen as one of the most influential poets of his generation.
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Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the pastic arts in the opening decades of 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.
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Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring. He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis.
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Ilya Ehrenburg
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (, ; Kiev, – Moscow, August 31, 1967) was a Soviet writer and journalist.
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James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark novel which perfected his stream of conciousness technique and combined nearly every literary device available in a modern re-telling of The Odyssey. Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939), and his complete oeuvre includes three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters.
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Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the algebra of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf (whom he cast in one of his one-act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940), and Raymond Radiguet.
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Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys (August 24, 1890 – May 14, 1979), born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, was a mid 20th century novelist from Dominica. She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea, written as a "prequel" to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, existentialism, and Marxism, and his work continues to influence fields such as Marxist philosophy, sociology, and literary studies. Sartre was also noted for his long relationship with the author and social theorist, Simone de Beauvoir. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused the honour.
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Jeanne Hébuterne
Jeanne Hébuterne (April 6, 1898 – January 25, 1920) was a French artist, best known as the frequent subject and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani.
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Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983; ) was a Catalan/Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.
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John Dos Passos
John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist and artist.
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Juan Gris
José Victoriano González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His works are closely connected to the emergence of an innovative artistic genre—Cubism, creating several of the movement's most distinctive works.
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Kay Boyle
Kay Boyle (February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992) was an American writer, educator, and political activist.
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Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky (Russian: , (Lev Davidovich Trotsky, also transliterated Lyev, Trotski, Trotskij, Trockij and Trotzky) – 21 August 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist.
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Les Six
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Léon-Paul Fargue
Léon-Paul Fargue (4 March 1876 - 24 November 1947) was a French poet and essayist.
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Man Ray
Man Ray (August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976), born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. Best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media and considered himself a painter above all. He was also a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. He is noted for his photograms, which he renamed "rayographs" after himself.
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Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall (, respell|shə-; ; ; 7 July 1887 – 28 March 1985), was a Russian–French artist, associated with several key art movements and was one of the most successful artists of the 20th century. He created a unique career in virtually every artistic medium, including paintings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints. Chagall's haunting, exuberant, and poetic images have enjoyed universal appeal, with art critic Robert Hughes referring to him as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."
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Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968; ) was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art during this period.
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Marevna
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Maria Jolas
Maria Jolas (Louisville, Kentucky, United States, January 12, 1893, – March 4, 1987 in Paris, France), born Maria McDonald, was one of the founding members of transition in Paris with her husband Eugene Jolas.
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Marie Vorobieff
Marie Bronislava Vorobieff-Stebelska (; 1892 – May 4, 1984), also known as Marevna, was a Russian-born Cubist painter. She is internationally known for convincingly combining elements of cubism (called by her "Dimensionalism") with pointillism and – through the use of the Golden Ratio for laying out paintings – structure. She tends to be accredited with having been the first female cubist painter. Though having lived the greater part of her life abroad – her formative years as a cubist painter in France and her mature years in England –, she is often referred to as a "Russian painter". Her name is included in the "artcult" list entitled "Judaica". From her relationship with the Mexican cubist painter and later muralist Diego Rivera in Paris she had a daughter, Marika Rivera (born 1919), who herself went on to become a professional dancer and film actress.
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Marie-Louise Damien
Marie-Louise Damien (December 5, 1889 – January 31, 1978) was a French singer and actress better known by the stage name Damia.
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Marika Rivera
Marika Rivera (November 13, 1919 – January 14, 2010) was a French film actress and dancer.
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Mary Phelps Jacob
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Max Ernst
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst is considered to be one of the primary pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism.
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Max Jacob
Max Jacob (July 12, 1876 – March 5, 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic.
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Michel Kikoine
Michel Kikoine (, Michail Kikóin; May 31, 1892 – November 4, 1968), was a Belarusian painter.
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Moise Kisling
Moise Kisling (January 22, 1891 - April 29, 1953) was a Polish painter.
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Morley Callaghan
Morley Callaghan, CC, O.Ont, FRSC (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, TV and radio personality.
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Nancy Cunard
Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 – 17 March 1965) was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class but strongly rejected her family's values, devoting much of her life to fighting racism and fascism. She became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists, including Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound and Louis Aragon, who were among her lovers, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Constantin Brancusi, Langston Hughes, Man Ray, and William Carlos Williams. In later years she suffered from mental illness, and her physical health deteriorated. She died at age 69, weighing only 26 kilos (57 pounds), in the Hôpital Cochin, Paris.
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Ossip Zadkine
Ossip Zadkine (; July 14, 1890 – November 25, 1967) was a Russian-born artist who lived in France. He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs.
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso (; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor who lived most of his adult life in France. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica'' (1937), his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
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Pascin
Julius Mordecai Pincas, (March 31, 1885 – June 5, 1930) known as Pascin, Jules Pascin, or the "Prince of Montparnasse", was born in Bulgaria to parents of four ethnicities. During World War I, he worked in the United States, but he mostly painted in Paris, where he was strongly identified with the Modernist movement and the artistic circles of Montparnasse. Having struggled with depression and alcoholism, he committed suicide at the age of 45.
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Paul Fort
Paul Fort (1 February 1872 - 20 April 1960) was a French poet.
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Pinchus Kremegne
Pinchus Krémègne, aka Pinchus Kremegne (, , 28 July 1890 - 5 April 1981), was a Belarusian artist, primarily known as a sculptor, painter and lithographer. He is considered one of the Artists from Belarus: The School of Paris.
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Porfirio Diaz
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René Iché
René Iché (January 21, 1897, Sallèles-d'Aude, France – December 23, 1954, Paris) was a 20th century French sculptor.
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Robert McAlmon
Robert Menzies McAlmon (March 9, 1896 - February 2, 1956) was an American author, poet and publisher.
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Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), commonly known as Salvador Dalí (), was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres.
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist in his later career.
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Simon Petlyura
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Simone de Beauvoir
: "La Beauvoir" redirects here; also see: Beauvoir (disambiguation).
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Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American author, literary theorist, and political activist.
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Toño Salazar
Antonio "Toño" Salazar (June 1897 - December 1986) was a Salvadoran caricaturist, illustrator and diplomat. Born in Santa Tecla, in 1920 he went to study in Mexico on an art scholarship then in 1922 traveled to France to join the throng of artists and writers from around the world who were living, working, and learning in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris.
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Tsuguharu Foujita
was a painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan who applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings.
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Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917–1924), as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system.
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William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based mostly on his novels, novellas, and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter.
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Émile Zola
Émile François Zola (; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important exemplar 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''.
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Bobino
Bobino at 20 Rue de la Gaîté, in the Montparnasse area of Paris (14th arrondissement), France, is a music hall theatre that has seen most of the biggest names of 20th century French music perform there.
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Boston
Boston (pronounced ) is the capital and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. Boston city proper had a 2009 estimated population of 645,169, making it the twentieth largest in the country. Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region includes six Massachusetts counties, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, and Worcester, all of Rhode Island and parts of New Hampshire; it is home to 7.5 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.
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Brittany
Brittany ( ; , pronounced ; Gallo: Bertaèyn) is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously as a kingdom and then as a duchy, Brittany was a fief of the Kingdom of France. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain (as opposed to Great Britain). It is characterized as one of the six Celtic nations.
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Café de la Rotonde
The Café de la Rotonde is a famous café in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France. Located on the Carrefour Vavin, at the corner of Boulevard du Montparnasse and Boulevard Raspail, it was founded by Victor Libion in 1910. Along with Le Dome and La Coupole it was one of the popular gathering spots for notable artists and writers during the interwar period.
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Catacombs of Paris
The Catacombs of Paris or Catacombes de Paris are a famous underground ossuary in Paris, France. Located south of the former city gate, the "Barrière d'Enfer", at today's Place Denfert-Rochereau ), the ossuary fills a renovated section of caverns and tunnels that are the remains of Paris' stone mines. Opened in the late 18th century, the underground cemetery became a tourist attraction on a small scale from the early 19th century, and has been open to the public on a regular basis from 1867. Following an incident of vandalism, they were closed to the public in September of 2009 and reopened 19 December of the same year.
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Chile
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- Alfonso Reyes
- Alice Prin
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Anatole France
- André Breton
- Angel Zarraga
- Archibald MacLeish
- Beatrice Wood
- Bill Bird
- Blaise Cendrars
- Bobino
- Bohemianism
- Bordeaux
- Boston
- Brittany
- cabaret
- Café de la Rotonde
- Camilo Mori
- Caresse Crosby
- Carmelo Gonzalez
- Catacombs of Paris
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- Chaim Soutine
- Charles Baudelaire
- Chile
- composers
- Constantin Brâncuşi
- crêpe
- D. H. Lawrence
- Dadaism
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- Diego Rivera
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- Dorothy Parker
- Edgar Degas
- Edith Wharton
- Emil Cioran
- Erik Satie
- Ernest Hemingway
- Eugene Jolas
- Ezra Pound
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Federico Cantú
- Fernand Léger
- Ford Madox Ford
- France
- French Revolution
- Félix Mayol
- Gabriel Fauré
- Gare Montparnasse
- Georges Guibourg
- Gertrude Stein
- Greek mythology
- Grupo Montparnasse
- Harry Crosby
- Hart Crane
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henry Miller
- Ilya Ehrenburg
- Jacques Lipchitz
- James Joyce
- Jean Cocteau
- Jean Rhys
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Jeanne Hébuterne
- Joan Miró
- John Dos Passos
- Juan Gris
- Julio Gonzalez
- Kay Boyle
- La Ruche
- Le Mans
- Le Monde
- Le Parisien
- Leon Trotsky
- Les Echos
- Les Six
- Léon-Paul Fargue
- Man Ray
- Manet
- Marc Chagall
- Marcel Duchamp
- Marevna
- Maria Jolas
- Marie Vassilieff
- Marie Vorobieff
- Marie-Louise Damien
- Marika Rivera
- Marios Varvoglis
- Mary Phelps Jacob
- Max Ernst
- Max Jacob
- Mexico
- Michel Kikoine
- Moise Kisling
- Montmartre
- Morley Callaghan
- Mount Parnassus
- Muses
- music-hall
- Nancy Cunard
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- Nina Hamnett
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- Pasteur Institute
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- Peggy Guggenheim
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- René Iché
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Ballet Montparnasse Filmography
Kiki of Montparnasse Filmography
- Walking on Air (1946)
- Cette vieille canaille (1933)
- L'étoile de mer (1928)
- Emak-Bakia (1926)
- La galerie des monstres (1924)
- Ballet mécanique (1924)
- Le lion des Mogols (1924)
- Le retour à la raison (1923)
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View from Tour Montparnasse, Paris
Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse Tower), also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a 210-metre (689 ft) tall office skyscraper located in Paris, France, in the area of Montparnasse. Constructed from 1969 to 1972, it is the tallest skyscraper in France and the ninth tallest building in the European Union. In the future, it may be surpassed in height by the Tour AXA (231 metres / 758 feet), and later by Tour Phare and Tour Generali (approximately 300 metres / 980 feet). In this footage you can see all of the surrounding area of the Montparnasse Tower. Amongst others, there can be seen: The Eiffel Tower, La Défense, Grand and Petit Palais, Pont Alexandre III, Place de la Concorde and Tuileries Garden, Musée du Louvre, Cathédrale Notre Dame, Centre Georges Pompidou, Sainte-Chapelle, Jardin du Luxembourg, the Panthéon, Les Invalides, Basilique du Sacré-Cœur and butte Montmartre and much more.
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PARIS - MONTPARNASSE Y JARDINES DE LUXEMBURGO
Montparnasse is a historic Left Bank area famous for artists studios, music halls, and café life. Created from three farms in 1824, the Montparnasse cemetery was originally known as Le Cimetière du Sud.
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Miossec "A montparnasse" videoclip
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- Duration: 3:39
- Published: 09 Sep 2009
- Uploaded: 10 Feb 2012
- Author: sophie09ps
Kiki of Montparnasse
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- Duration: 3:42
- Published: 08 Jan 2009
- Uploaded: 20 Feb 2012
- Author: chrisheadrick
Footage of Kiki from the films of Man Ray and Fernand Leger. For an extra beautiful Kiki experience, paste the URL for this page into the space at www.yooouuutuuube.com
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Cimetiere Montparnasse
Cimetiere Montparnasse Musica: Beirut "St. Apollonia".
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Alain Robert tour montparnasse
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- Duration: 3:03
- Published: 06 Jan 2007
- Uploaded: 26 Jan 2012
- Author: maitreweedoo
www.alainrobert.com
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Pulshar - Montparnasse 2 am
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- Duration: 5:03
- Published: 07 Nov 2010
- Uploaded: 15 Feb 2012
- Author: lostinsound80
All rights reserved for the producers of this track.All the tunes that I upload are for promotional use only. Artist: Pulshar; Album: Inside; Song Title: Montparnasse 2 AM; Track No: 3; Release Date: October 2010; Label: Desolat
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Kiki de Montparnasse
www.serenaperrotta.it - Kiki de Montparnasse
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Les Amants de Montparnasse Lilli Palmer hoc.avi
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- Duration: 2:38
- Published: 05 Sep 2011
- Uploaded: 10 Feb 2012
- Author: sammy123de
german actress Lilli Palmer very elegant with cigartte holder
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Montparnasse! (Les Miserables 1957)
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- Duration: 4:14
- Published: 10 Nov 2007
- Uploaded: 21 Jan 2012
- Author: lesmisloony
The flower of the underworld makes his one physically accurate appearance in a film, courtesy of the incredible 1957 LM movie. If you don't know which one he is right away, you don't DESERVE to know. Hm, other aspects of this scene are probably good too. The Valjean Robbery at the Gorbeau tenement.
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Black Zone Ensemble - "Montparnasse" [NuJazz,Lounge]
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- Duration: 4:00
- Published: 27 Oct 2008
- Uploaded: 21 Jan 2012
- Author: BlackZoneEnsemble
Black Zone Ensemble - "Montparnasse" from the album "Life" - 11/8 Records (Short version) Track available on iTunes www.myspace.com/blackzoneensemble www.blackzoneensemble.com
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Bad Lieutenant @ Fnac Montparnasse "Bizarre love triangle" by New Order Paris Nov 4th 2009
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- Duration: 3:16
- Published: 04 Nov 2009
- Uploaded: 02 Feb 2012
- Author: zerockerparis
© Guino Patrice rockerparis.blogspot.com for more on this gig and rock concerts in Paris
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TGV Atlantique leaving Paris Montparnasse
Passing of a TGV Atlantique in Double Traction that leaves Paris Montparnasse in front of my appartment.
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compile la tour montparnasse infernale 1
la tour montparnasse infernale partie 1
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La tour Montparnasse (comment il t'a défoncé)
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- Duration: 1:13
- Published: 27 Jun 2011
- Uploaded: 19 Feb 2012
- Author: PrototypeB13
Paris vu par... Godard / Montparnasse-Levallois 1965
Short film - 16mm - French, no subtitles Cinematographer: Albert Maysles With Johanna Shimkus, Philippe Hiquilly, Serge Davri. Written & directed by Jean-Luc Godard Court-métrage de Jean-Luc Godard de 1965
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Montparnasse
John Jo Flynn as Montparnasse in Les Miserables - London 2008.
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Gare Montparnasse
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- Duration: 1:17
- Published: 06 Nov 2009
- Uploaded: 13 Aug 2010
- Author: BrunOnDroid
SNCF TGV from Irún station to Paris Montparnasse crossing the spanish - french...
...border bridge Puente Internacional-Nazioarteko Zubia, over river Bidassoa and arrives at Hendaia station. Hendaia, Basque country, France 7.8.2009
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Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rencontre a la Fnac Montparnasse - 10/DEC/2009
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- Duration: 7:07
- Published: 30 Jan 2010
- Uploaded: 18 Sep 2010
- Author: foreverCLG
MANY OTHER VIDEOS ABOUT HER ARE AVAILABLE ON www.youtube.com
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Gustavo Morales Montparnasse (Poulenc)
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- Duration: 3:18
- Published: 01 Apr 2008
- Uploaded: 11 Jul 2011
- Author: gustavonyc
Gustavo Morales Richard DiFiore Thomas Center for the Arts, Gainesville FL First US Recital 1990 Recital Debut 1990 Still singing as a tenor Aun cantando de tenor
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Montparnasse at Passe Muraille
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- Duration: 2:19
- Published: 24 Mar 2011
- Uploaded: 31 Mar 2011
- Author: groundwaterprod
"The script is as sophisticated as it is compelling, and the brilliant use of nudity gilds the lily. In fact, everything about this show is perfection." -Paula Citron, Classical 96.3FM Groundwater Productions, in association with Theatre Passe Muraille, proudly present our award winning production of Montparnasse At Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson Ave., Toronto) March 17th -- April 2nd, 2011 7:30pm (Saturdays 2pm & 7:30pm) Tickets $15-$35 (Saturday matinee PWYC) For tickets: artsboxoffice.ca or 416 504-7529
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La Tour Montparnasse Infernale - Compil
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- Duration: 9:58
- Published: 27 Mar 2007
- Uploaded: 20 Feb 2012
- Author: SeppukuEntertainment
Le best of des conneries de la tour Montparnasse Infernale ! Le plus drôle d'Ecric et Ramzy dans le film ! Les meilleures scènes ;)
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Montparnasse () is an area of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail. Montparnasse was absorbed into the capital's 6th and 14th arrondissements in 1669.
The area also gives its name to:
The name Montparnasse stems from the nickname "Mount Parnassus" (''In Greek mythology, home to the nine Greek goddesses – the Muses – of the arts and sciences'') given to the hilly neighbourhood in the 17th century by students who came there to recite poetry.
The hill was levelled to construct the Boulevard Montparnasse in the 18th century. During the French Revolution many dance halls and cabarets opened their doors.
The area is also known for cafes and bars, such as the Breton restaurants specialising in ''crêpes'' (thin pancakes) located a few blocks from the Gare Montparnasse.
Artistic Montparnasse
Like its counterpart Montmartre, Montparnasse became famous at the beginning of the 20th century, referred to as ''les Années Folles'' (the Crazy Years), when it was the heart of intellectual and artistic life in Paris. From 1910 to the start of World War II, Paris' artistic circles migrated to Montparnasse, an alternative to the Montmartre district which had been the intellectual breeding ground for the previous generation of artists. The Paris of Zola, Manet, France, Degas, Fauré, a group that had assembled more on the basis of status affinity than actual artistic tastes, indulging in the refinements of Dandyism, was at the opposite end of the economic, social, and political spectrum from the gritty, tough-talking, die-hard, emigrant artists that peopled Montparnasse.Virtually penniless painters, sculptors, writers, poets and composers came from around the world to thrive in the creative atmosphere and for the cheap rent at artist communes such as La Ruche. Living without running water, in damp, unheated "studios", seldom free of rats, many sold their works for a few francs just to buy food. Jean Cocteau once said that poverty was a luxury in Montparnasse. First promoted by art dealers such as Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, today works by those artists sell for millions of euros.
They came to Montparnasse from all over the globe, from Europe, including Russia and Ukraine, from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, and from as far away as Japan. Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Camilo Mori and others made their way from Chile where the profound innovations in art spawned the formation of the Grupo Montparnasse in Santiago. A few of the other artists who gathered in Montparnasse were Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, Ossip Zadkine, Carmelo Gonzalez, Julio Gonzalez, Moise Kisling, Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Marios Varvoglis, Marc Chagall, Nina Hamnett, Jean Rhys, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, Chaim Soutine, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, Amedeo Modigliani, Ford Madox Ford, Toño Salazar, Ezra Pound, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti, Henri Rousseau, Constantin Brâncuşi, Paul Fort, Juan Gris, Diego Rivera, Federico Cantú, Angel Zarraga, Marevna, Tsuguharu Foujita, Marie Vassilieff, Léon-Paul Fargue, Alberto Giacometti, René Iché, André Breton, Alfonso Reyes, Pascin, Salvador Dalí, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Emil Cioran , Reginald Gray, Joan Miró and, in his declining years, Edgar Degas.
Montparnasse was a community where creativity was embraced with all its oddities, each new arrival welcomed unreservedly by its existing members. When Tsuguharu Foujita arrived from Japan in 1913 not knowing a soul, he met Soutine, Modigliani, Pascin and Leger virtually the same night and within a week became friends with Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. In 1914, when the English painter Nina Hamnett arrived in Montparnasse, on her first evening the smiling man at the next table at ''La Rotonde'' graciously introduced himself as "Modigliani, painter and Jew". They became good friends, Hamnett later recounting how she once borrowed a jersey and corduroy trousers from Modigliani, then went to ''La Rotonde'' and danced in the street all night.
Between 1921 and 1924, the number of Americans in Paris swelled from 6,000 to 30,000. While most of the artistic community gathered here were struggling to eke out an existence, well-heeled American socialites such as Peggy Guggenheim, and Edith Wharton from New York City, Harry Crosby from Boston and Beatrice Wood from San Francisco were caught in the fever of creativity. Robert McAlmon, and Maria and Eugene Jolas came to Paris and published their literary magazine ''Transition''. Harry Crosby and his wife Caresse would establish the Black Sun Press in Paris in 1927, publishing works by such future luminaries as D. H. Lawrence, Archibald MacLeish, James Joyce, Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Dorothy Parker and others. As well, Bill Bird published through his ''Three Mountains Press'' until British heiress Nancy Cunard took it over.
The cafés and bars of Montparnasse were a meeting place where ideas were hatched and mulled over. The cafés at the centre of Montparnasse's night-life were in the Carrefour Vavin, now renamed Place Pablo-Picasso. In Montparnasse's heyday (from 1910 to 1920), the cafés ''Le Dôme'', ''La Closerie des Lilas'', ''La Rotonde'', ''Le Select'', and ''La Coupole''—all of which are still in business— were the places where starving artists could occupy a table all evening for a few ''centimes''. If they fell asleep, the waiters were instructed not to wake them. Arguments were common, some fuelled by intellect, others by alcohol, and if there were fights, and there often were, the police were never summoned. If you couldn't pay your bill, people such as La Rotonde's proprietor, Victor Libion, would often accept a drawing, holding it until the artist could pay. As such, there were times when the café's walls were littered with a collection of artworks, that today would make the curators of the world's greatest museums drool with envy.
There were many areas where the great artists congregated, one of them being near Le Dôme at no. 10 rue Delambre called the Dingo Bar. It was the hang-out of artists and expatriate Americans and the place where Canadian writer Morley Callaghan came with his friend Ernest Hemingway, both still unpublished writers, and met the already-established F. Scott Fitzgerald. When Man Ray's friend and Dadaist, Marcel Duchamp, left for New York, Man Ray set up his first studio at l'Hôtel des Ecoles at no. 15 rue Delambre. This is where his career as a photographer began, and where James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau and the others filed in and posed in black and white.
The ''rue de la Gaité'' in Montparnasse was the site of many of the great music-hall theatres, in particular the famous "Bobino".
On their stages, using then-popular single name pseudonyms or one birth name only, Damia, Kiki, Mayol and Georgius, sang and performed to packed houses. And here too, Les Six was formed, creating music based on the ideas of Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau.
The poet Max Jacob said he came to Montparnasse to "sin disgracefully", but Marc Chagall summed it up differently when he explained why he had gone to Montparnasse: "I aspired to see with my own eyes what I had heard of from so far away: this revolution of the eye, this rotation of colours, which spontaneously and astutely merge with one another in a flow of conceived lines. That could not be seen in my town. The sun of Art then shone only on Paris."
While the area attracted people who came to live and work in the creative, bohemian environment, it also became home for political exiles such as Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Porfirio Diaz, and Simon Petlyura. But, World War II forced the dispersal of the artistic society, and after the war Montparnasse never regained its splendour. Wealthy socialites like Peggy Guggenheim, who married artist Max Ernst, lived in the elegant section of Paris but frequented the studios of Montparnasse, acquiring pieces that would come to be recognzed as masterpieces that now hang in the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, Italy.
The Musée du Montparnasse opened in 1998 at 21 Avenue du Maine. Although operating with a tiny city grant, the museum is a non-profit operation.
Economy
SNCF, the French rail company, has its head office in Montparnasse and the 14th arrondissement.Prior to the completion of the current Air France head office in Tremblay-en-France in December 1995, Air France was headquartered in a tower located next to the Gare Montparnasse rail station in Montparnasse and in the 15th arrondissement; Air France had its headquarters in the tower for about 30 years.
Education
The Vandamme Library (Bibliothèque Vandamme) is located in the neighborhood.
Further reading
References
External links
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Alice Ernestine Prin (2 October 1901 – 29 April 1953), nicknamed ''Queen of Montparnasse'', and often known as ''Kiki de Montparnasse'', was a French artist model, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated, early 1920s culture of Paris.
1923 : ''L'Inhumaine'' by Marcel L'Herbier
1923 : ''Le Retour à la Raison'' by Man Ray, short film
1923 : ''Ballet Mécanique'' by Fernand Léger, short film
1923 : ''Entr'acte'' by René Clair, short film
1923 : ''La Galerie des Monstres'' by Jaque Catelain
1926 : ''Emak-Bakia'' by Man Ray, short film
1928 : ''L'Étoile de mer'' by Man Ray
1928 : ''Paris express'' or ''Souvenirs de Paris'' by Pierre Prévert et Marcel Duhamel, short film
1930 : ''Le Capitaine jaune'' by Anders Wilhelm Sandberg
1933 : ''Cette vieille canaille'' by Anatol Litvak
''Kiki de Montparnasse'' (2007); by Catel & Bocquet (in French) Bruxelles: Casterman
''Kiki of Montparnasse'' (1968); by Frederick Kohner (a novel) London: Cassell ISBN 978-0-304-93242-9
''Kiki: Reine de Montparnasse'' (1988); by Lou Mollgaard (in French) Paris: Laffont
''Kiki's Memoirs'' (1996) translation by Samuel Putnam (original ed. pub by J. Corti, Paris)
''Kiki's Paris'' (1989); by Klüver and Martin. (French translation – Paris: Flammarion)
''Kiki's Memoirs, 1930'' (2006) translation by N. Semoniff (in Russian – published by Salamandra P.V.V., 2011)
''Kiki Souvenirs, 1929'' (2005) translation by N. Semoniff (in Russian – published by Salamandra P.V.V., 2011)
''Kiki's Memoirs'' (2009) [''Recuerdos recobrados''] translation by José Pazó Espinosa (in Spanish – published by Nocturna)
Kiki de Montparnasse – Selected Works
http://www.savasumanovic.org.rs
Early life
Alice Prin was born in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Côte d'Or. An illegitimate child, she was raised in abject poverty by her grandmother. At age twelve, she was sent to live with her mother in Paris in order to find work. She first worked in shops and bakeries, but by the age of fourteen, she was posing nude for sculptors, which created discord with her mother.
Notoriety begins
Adopting a single name, ''"Kiki"'', she became a fixture in the Montparnasse social scene and a popular artist model, posing for dozens of artists, including Chaim Soutine, "Julian Mandel" (a pseudonym), Tsuguharu Foujita, Francis Picabia, Jean Cocteau, Arno Breker, Alexander Calder, Per Krohg, Hermine David, Pablo Gargallo, Mayo, and Tono Salazar. Moise Kisling painted a portrait of Kiki titled ''Nu assis'', one of his best known.Her companion for most of the 1920s was Man Ray, who made hundreds of portraits of her. She is the subject of some of his best-known images, including the notable surrealist image ''Le violon d'Ingres'' and ''Noire et blanche''.
She appeared in nine short and often experimental films, including Fernand Léger's ''Ballet mécanique'' without any credit.
Artwork and autobiography
A painter in her own right, in 1927 Prin had a sold-out exhibition of her paintings at the Galerie au Sacre du Printemps in Paris. Signing her work with her chosen single name, ''Kiki'', she usually noted the year. Her drawings and paintings comprise portraits, self-portraits, social activities, fanciful animals, and dreamy landscapes composed in a light, slightly uneven, expressionist style that is a reflection of her easy-going manner and boundless optimism.Her autobiography was published in 1929 as ''Kiki's Memoirs'', with Ernest Hemingway and Tsuguharu Foujita providing introductions. In 1930 the book was translated by Samuel Putnam and published in Manhattan by Black Manikin Press, but it was immediately banned by the United States government. ''Kiki's Memoirs'' remained banned in the United States through the late 1970s, when it still was held in the section for banned books in the New York Public Library. This autobiography finally saw republication in 1996.
Her music hall performances in black hose and garters included crowd-pleasing risqué songs, which were uninhibited, yet inoffensive. For a few years during the 1930s, she owned a Montparnasse cabaret, which she named ''Chez Kiki''.
A symbol of bohemian and creative Paris, at age of twenty-eight she was declared the ''Queen of Montparnasse''. Even during difficult times, she maintained her positive attitude, saying "all I need is an onion, a bit of bread, and a bottle of red [wine]; and I will always find somebody to offer me that."
She left Paris to avoid the occupying German army during World War Two, which entered the city in June 1940. Nazi officials had a reputation for intolerance toward the art and artists associated with Montparnasse that extended to all embracing its liberal lifestyle. Although some of the Nazi leaders secretly collected the new art flourishing in Paris, it was suppressed where ever they exerted control. Hitler is said to have hoped that his military would burn Paris to the ground. She never returned as a resident.
Death and legacy
Prin died in 1953 in Sanary-sur-Mer, France at the age of fifty-one, apparently of complications of alcoholism or drug dependence. A large crowd of artists and fans attended her Paris funeral and followed the procession to her interment in the ''Cimetière du Montparnasse''. Her tomb identifies her as ''"Kiki, 1901–1953, singer, actress, painter, Queen of Montparnasse."'' Tsuguharu Foujita has said that, with Kiki, the glorious days of Montparnasse were buried forever.Long after her death, Prin remains the embodiment of the outspokenness, audacity, and creativity that marked that period of life in Montparnasse. In 1989, biographers Billy Klüver and Julie Martin called her "one of the century's first truly independent women." In her honor, a daylily has been named ''Kiki de Montparnasse''.
Kiki was featured in a 3 page obituary in Life Magazine in the June 29, 1953 edition.
Filmography
Notes
Further reading
External links
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| name | Alain Robert |
|---|---|
| birth date | August 07, 1962 |
| death date | |
| other names | Robert Alain Philippe |
| known for | Scaling skyscrapers |
| occupation | Climber |
| nationality | French |
| website | alainrobert.com }} |
Alain Robert (born as Robert Alain Philippe on 7 August 1962), is a French rock and urban climber, from Digoin, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. Known as "the French Spider-Man" (after the comic character Spider-Man), or "the Human Spider", Robert is famous for scaling skyscrapers.
Overview
Robert has scaled 85 giant structures around the globe including many of the world's tallest structures, most of which he has scaled using only his bare hands and climbing shoes.Robert began climbing as a young boy, scaling rock cliffs in the area around his home. At the age of 12 when he forgot his keys and was locked out of his parents' eighth-floor apartment, he chose to simply scale the exterior wall to his home. In 1982 he suffered two accidents, the first in January, aged 19, and the second in September, aged 20. He fell on each occasion. He suffered multiple fractures and now suffers from permanent vertigo. The doctors considered him 60 percent handicapped and told him he would not be able to climb again. Within six months he was climbing again. He kept taking on more and more challenging structures and improving his skills. He polished his rock-climbing skills in the French Alps before turning to buildings.
Robert is managed by English licensed football agent Bryan Yeubrey.
Strategy
Because authorities will not normally give him permission for such dangerous exploits, Robert usually appears, at dawn, on the site of whichever giant skyscraper he has chosen to climb. His exploits attract crowds of onlookers who stop to watch him climb. As a consequence, Robert has been arrested many times, in various countries, by law enforcement officials waiting for him at the end of his climb. The arrests and trials are normally little more than brief formalities and he has always been discharged.His physical conditioning and expert climbing technique allow him to climb using the small protrusions of building walls and windows (such as window ledges and frames). Over the course of his climbing career, he has become so used to cramming his fingers into the cracks of ledges and hanging from balconies that he is actually unable to completely straighten his fingers. Many of his climbs provide him no opportunity to rest and can last several hours. He sometimes has a small bag of climbing chalk powder (similar to powdered rosin), which is used to absorb sweat from the hands, fastened around his waist.
Career
Robert's urban climbing career has been characterized by an ever-expanding list of famous landmarks which includes the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House and the Montparnasse Tower in Paris, as well as the world's tallest skyscrapers. In the 1990s, as his exploits brought him worldwide media exposure, speculation began as to whether or not he would attempt the tallest building in the world at the time: the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Although Malaysian authorities were expecting his attempt, they were still astonished when one day in 1997 he suddenly appeared several floors up on the side of the tower. He was eventually arrested at the 60th floor, 28 floors below the top. While scaling the Sears Tower, now called Willis Tower, in Chicago in 1999, he encountered the most challenging climbing conditions in his career. Near the top of the 108-story building, a thick fog set in that covered the glass and metal wall of the last 20 floors with moisture, making it dangerously slippery. He overcame the difficulties and reached the top. Alain Robert was the second man to scale the Sears Tower. In 1981, Dan Goodwin, using suction cups, battled building security guards and the Chicago Fire Department for seven hours before successfully completing the climb.In June 1999 Robert also climbed the Marriott Hotel in Warsaw, Poland.
In 2000, Robert climbed the high Luxor Obelisk in Place de la Concorde, France.
In February 2003, he legally climbed the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, UAE, watched by about 100,000 spectators. It became more frequent for Robert to be paid to scale buildings as part of publicity efforts. In May 2003, he was paid approximately $18,000 to climb the Lloyd's building to promote the premiere of the movie ''Spider-Man'' on the British television channel ''Sky Movies''. On 19 October 2004, he scaled the headquarters of the French oil company Total while wearing a Spider-Man costume.
Robert scaled Taipei 101 on 25 December 2004, a few days before its grand opening as the tallest building in the world. The climb was legal, part of the week's festivities. The skyscraper's outwardly slanting sides posed no apparent difficulty for him, but heavy rain resulted in a climb lasting four hours—double his estimate.
On 11 June 2005 he climbed the Cheung Kong Centre in Hong Kong, scaling to reach the top of the 62-story tower.
On 1 September 2006, he climbed the tallest building in Lithuania and the Baltic States – Europa Tower, , in Vilnius. Wearing a black suit and using a safety rope, which he detached several times, he reached the observation deck of the building, , in 40 minutes. In 2006 he also climbed Torre Vasco da Gama in Portugal as part of an advertisement for Optimus, a national mobile operator. He finished the year climbing the Santa Fe World Plaza in Mexico City on 7 December 2006. On 23 February 2007, he legally climbed the headquarters building of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) on the coast of Abu Dhabi.
On 20 March 2007, he again climbed the Petronas Twin Towers, marking the tenth anniversary of his previous ascent of this building. Upon reaching the 60th floor, he allowed himself to be apprehended. He flew the Malaysian flag and drew applause from waiting police, fire crew, and media representatives before handing himself in. He was handcuffed and escorted off the premises before being driven to a police station.
On 31 May 2007, he scaled the 88-story Jin Mao Building in Shanghai, China's then tallest skyscraper, once again wearing a Spider-Man costume. He was later arrested and jailed for five days before being expelled from China. In November 2007, Robert was invited by the local government of Zhangjiajie, a scenic region in the southern province of Hunan, to climb the Tianmen mountain to boost the profile of the region and bring in tourists.
On 4 September 2007, he climbed the Federation Tower office building in Moscow, (Russia's tallest skyscraper). Detained by police, he could face a fine for violating safety norms at a construction site.
On 18 December 2007, he climbed the 29-story Portland House office building in London (Westminster's tallest building). It took him just over 40 minutes. Police taped off the area and later arrested him for criminal damage and wasting police time.
On 15 April 2008, he climbed the 60-story Four Seasons Place in Hong Kong. The police and four fire engines were standing by and it took him almost 1 hour to reach the top. Robert encountered difficulty at the top when he found that the last were impossible to climb. He had to climb sideways until he reached a corner and managed with difficulty to reach the top. He almost fell when a woman on the other side of the glass screamed and almost fainted. Witnesses said that he was detained upon completing the climb. He stated that his climb was intended to increase awareness of global warming.
On 5 June 2008, he climbed the New York Times Building in New York. He unfurled a banner with a slogan about global warming and was then arrested by police on the roof. The banner read "Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week."
On 17 February 2009, he once again climbed the Cheung Kong Centre in Hong Kong, taking 40 minutes to reach the top of the 62-story tower. "He unfurled a banner reading "onehundredmonths.org" near the base of the tower before climbing."
On 2 April 2009, during the 2009 G-20 London summit he climbed to the 9th floor of the Lloyd's building and unfurled a 100-foot banner declaring that there were 100 months left to save the planet.
On 2 June 2009, he climbed to the 41st floor of the RBS Tower in Sydney Australia before returning to the ground; he was arrested as he finished his descent.
On 1 September 2009, one day after Malaysia celebrated its 52nd ''Independence Day'' and after two arrests in 1997 and 2007, Alain Robert finally made it successfully to the top of the Petronas Twin Towers. He started at 6:00 am local time and reached the top at 7:40 am local time without attracting the attention of the public. He celebrated his climb by standing with his arms outspread on the pinnacle of one of the Twin Towers.
On 8 October 2009, Robert climbed the 33-story building of the Ariane TV station in Paris. He was arrested at the top of the building but was soon released.
On 30 August 2010, he climbed the Lumiere Residential building in Sydney, Australia, which was a 57 story building. The climb took about 20 minutes as officials were waiting at the top for his arrest.
On 5 November 2010, starting at 6pm, he took 35 minutes to scale the Singapore Flyer. It was the first time he climbed a circular, moving structure and became the first person to climb around the world's tallest observatory wheel.
On January 26, 2011 he completed a morning climb of the Hang Seng Head Office building in Hong Kong finishing at midday.
On March 28, 2011 Robert climbed the tallest building in the world, the 828-meter Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, taking just over six hours to complete the climb. However, he used a harness in accordance with safety procedure.
On May 17, 2011 he climbed the Istanbul Sapphire, which is currently Europe's 4th tallest building. It was a legal climb.
Notable climbs
The table below contains the notable structures climbed by Alain Robert.{|class="wikitable sortable" !|Location !|Building !|Date !|Height !class="unsortable"|Notes |- ||Sydney, Australia ||Sydney Tower ||1997 ||319 m (1,047 ft) || |- ||Sydney, Australia ||Sydney Opera House ||1997 ||65 m (213 ft) || |- ||Sydney, Australia ||Sydney Harbour Bridge ||1997 ||135 m (443 ft) || |- ||Sydney, Australia ||RBS Tower ||2 June 2009 ||218 m (715 ft) ||Descended to ground. Arrested and fined AUS$750 |- ||Sydney, Australia ||Lumiere building ||30 August 2010 ||151 m (495 ft) ||Arrested at the top. Took about 20 minutes to climb the 57-story building |- ||Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ||Hotel Vermont ||1996 || || |- ||Montreal, Canada ||Crown Plaza Hotel ||1999 ||120 m (393 ft) || |- ||Montreal, Canada ||Place de la Cathédrale || ||146 m (479 ft) || |- ||Hong Kong ||Four Seasons Place ||2008 ||130 m (427 ft) || |- ||Hong Kong ||The Far East Finance Centre ||1996 ||200 m (656 ft) || |- ||Hong Kong ||The Cheung Kong Centre ||2009 ||283 (928 ft) || |- ||Hong Kong ||The Cheung Kong Centre ||2005 ||283 (928 ft) || |- ||London, England ||One Canada Square ||18 October 2002 ||244 m (801 ft) ||Abandoned half way due to rain |- ||London, England ||One Canada Square ||1995 ||244 m (801 ft) || |- ||London, England ||Lloyd's building ||2 April 2009 ||95 m (312 ft) ||Climbed to the 9th floor. Unfurled a 100 ft banner. |- ||London, England ||Portland House ||18 December 2007 ||101 m (331 ft) ||Arrested. 40 minute climb. |- ||Paris, France ||Eiffel Tower ||1996/97 ||313 m (1,027 ft) || |- ||Paris, France ||Grande Arche at La Défense ||1999 ||105 m (344 ft) || |- ||Paris, France ||The Luxor Obelisk in Place de la Concorde ||1999 ||31 m (102 ft) || |- ||Paris, France ||Tour Montparnasse ||1995 ||209 m (686 ft) || |- ||Paris, France ||Tour Crystal at Front de Seine ||2005 ||100 m (328 ft) || |- ||Paris, France ||Tour Crystal at Front de Seine ||1996 ||100 m (328 ft) || |- ||Paris, France ||Mercurial Towers at Bagnolet ||1995 ||125 m (410 ft) || |- ||Paris, France ||Headquarters of the French oil company Total ||19 October 2004 ||187 m (614 ft) ||Wore a Spider-Man costume |- ||Paris, France ||Ariane building ||8 October 2009 ||152 m (499 ft) ||no formal charges were brought against him |- ||Frankfurt, Germany ||Dresdner Bank Tower ||1995 ||145 m (476 ft) || |- ||Milan, Italy ||Banca di Milano building ||1995 ||112 m (367 ft) || |- ||Tokyo, Japan ||Shinjuku Center Building ||1998 ||245 m (804 ft) || |- ||Warsaw, Poland ||Marriott Hotel ||1999 ||140 m (459 ft) || |- ||Johannesburg, South Africa ||IBM Tower ||1998 ||110 m (361 ft) || |- ||Abu Dhabi, UAE ||National Bank of Abu Dhabi ||Feb 2003 ||173 m (568 ft) ||A legal climb. Watched by about 100,000 spectators. |- ||Abu Dhabi, UAE ||The Etisalat building ||2005 ||160 m (525 ft) || |- ||Abu Dhabi, UAE ||ADIA Headquarters Building ||2007 ||185 m (607 ft) || |- ||New York City ||New York Times Building ||5 June 2008 ||228 m (748 ft) ||Unfurled global warming banner. Arrested by police. |- ||New York City, United States ||Empire State Building ||1994 ||381 m (1,250 ft) || |- ||Chicago, United States ||Sears Tower ||1999 ||443 m (1,453 ft) || |- ||San Francisco, United States ||Golden Gate Bridge ||1996 ||227 m (745 ft) || |- ||Philadelphia, United States ||Blue Cross Tower ||1997 ||185 m (607 ft) || |- ||Las Vegas, United States ||Luxor Hotel ||1996 ||106 m (348 ft) || |- ||Tampere, Finland ||Hotel Ilves ||2003 ||61 m (200 ft) || |- ||Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ||Petronas Tower 1 ||20 March 1997 ||452 m (1,483 ft) ||Arrested at the 60th floor |- ||Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ||Petronas Tower 2 ||20 March 2007 ||452 m (1,483 ft) ||Arrested at the 60th floor |- ||Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ||Petronas Towers ||1 September 2009 ||452 m (1,483 ft) ||Stood atop the highest point of the tower, fined MYR 2000 |- ||Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia ||Sabah Foundation Building ||1997 ||150 m (492 ft) || |- ||Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ||Melia Hotel ||1997 ||80 m (262 ft) ||For fundraising |- ||Singapore ||Overseas Union Bank Centre ||2000 ||280 m (919 ft) ||Arrested at the 21st floor |- ||Singapore ||Suntec Tower One ||2008 ||176 m (577 ft) || |- ||Taiwan ||Taipei 101 ||2004 ||508 m (1,667 ft) ||Climbed as part of opening event |- ||Caracas, Venezuela ||Parque Central Torre ||2002 ||224 m (735 ft) || |- ||Barcelona, Spain ||Torre Agbar ||2007 ||144 m (472 ft) || |- ||Barcelona, Spain ||Torre Agbar ||2006 ||144 m (472 ft) || |- ||Portugal ||Torre Vasco da Gama ||2006 ||145 m (476 ft) ||Optimus-sponsored legal climb to promote a phone. |- ||Lisbon, Portugal ||25 de Abril Bridge ||6 August 2007 ||190 m (623 ft) ||Arrested |- ||Mexico City ||Santa Fé World Plaza Corporate Tower ||2006 ||127 m (417 ft) || |- ||Bratislava, Slovakia ||Slovak Radio Building ||12 April 2007 ||80 m (262 ft) ||Took less than 20 minutes |- ||Shanghai, China ||Jin Mao Building ||31 May 2007 ||420 m (1,378 ft) ||Arrested, expelled from China |- ||Moscow, Russia ||West Federation Tower ||4 September 2007 ||244 m (801 ft) ||Detained by police. |- ||São Paulo, Brazil ||Edifício Itália ||February 2008 ||168 m (551 ft) || |- ||Beirut, Lebanon ||Phoenicia Hotel ||October 2008 ||239 m (784 ft) || |- ||Jakarta, Indonesia ||The City Tower ||12 November 2008 || || |- ||Pune, India ||The Amanora Tower ||28 February 2010 ||100 m (328 ft) ||Took less than 12 minutes |- ||Paris, France ||GDF Suez building ||7 April 2010 ||185 m (607 ft) ||Arrested at the top |- ||Singapore ||Singapore Flyer ||5 November 2010 ||165 m (541 ft) ||First person to climb around the world's tallest observatory wheel. |- ||Dubai, UAE ||Burj Khalifa ||28 March 2011 ||828 m (2716 ft) ||Legal climb, partial use of safety harness. Tallest building in the world at the time of ascent. |}
Accidents
In a 2005 interview, Alain Robert said that he has fallen seven times in his life. The worst was his fall in September 1982.
On 18 January 1982, at 19, he fell when his anchor and rope gave way during training. He fractured his wrists, heels and nose and underwent three operations.
On 29 September 1982, at 20, he fell when his rope came undone while abseiling. He was in a coma for five days and fractured both forearms, his elbow, pelvis and nose. His elbow was also dislocated and a nerve was damaged, leaving him partially paralyzed. He also suffered cerebral edema and vertigo. He underwent six operations on his hands and elbow.
In 1993, he fell while showing students how to rely on their legs when climbing. He kept his hands behind his back on an easy route but lost his balance and fell headfirst, shattering both wrists. He went into another coma and spent two months in the hospital.
In 2004, he fell when climbing a traffic light whilst posing for a photo in an interview. He landed on his elbow and needed forty stitches; just one month later he climbed the world's tallest skyscraper at the time, Taipei 101, as part of its official opening week.
Arrests
On 22 November 2005, he was arrested as he began to climb the One Houston Center building in Houston, Texas. He was charged with criminal trespassing and misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance. The controlled substance charge was due to two pills that the police found in his possession. He claimed the pills were the prescription drug clobazam, a medication used to prevent epileptic seizures. He spent two days in jail and then appeared in court a week later, on 29 November, and provided proof of a doctor's prescription for the medication, asking that the drug charges be dropped. On 20 December 2005, he climbed the Cristal Tower in Paris in protest of the arrest. His next court appearance was scheduled for 4 January 2006, but Robert said that he would be climbing in Mexico at that time.On 15 March 2006 he climbed one of the Mercurial Towers in Bagnolet in protest of the presumed seven-day sentence, prior to returning to Texas to serve the sentence. On 31 March he appeared before a Houston court. The drug charge was dropped because of the valid prescription and the jail sentence was reduced to one day and a $2000 fine for trespassing. The previous time served in November was credited so Robert did not serve any more time in jail.
On 31 May 2007, after scaling the 88-story Jin Mao Building in Shanghai, he was arrested and jailed for 5 days before being expelled from China.
On 27 February 2008 he climbed the Edifício Itália, one of the tallest buildings in Brazil, despite being unauthorized to do so. He was detained by the police after his successful ascent.
On 15 April 2008, he climbed the 60-story Four Seasons Place in Hong Kong. According to witness reports, he was detained by police upon completing the climb.
On 5 June 2008 (11:40 am local time), he climbed the 52-story New York Times Building and hung a yellow banner on the 9th floor which read, "Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week." He was arrested upon reaching the roof at 12:25 pm.
On 2 June 2009, Robert climbed the 41 story RBS building in Sydney. He was arrested once he reached the ground.
On 1 September 2009, after scrambling up the 88-story Petronas Twin Tower in Malaysia in less than 2 hours following two failed attempts over the past decade, he was held in police custody overnight before being brought to court. He pled guilty to criminal trespassing and was fined about $567. He had been freed without charge after his second unsuccessful attempt at climbing the building in 2007.
On 30 August 2010, Alain Robert was arrested after climbing the 57-storey Lumiere building on Bathurst Street in Sydney, Australia at 10.30am.
Books and documentaries
Alain Robert's autobiography, ''With Bare Hands'', was first published in English in 2008. It features his development into a famous urban climber from his days as a child and gives a deep insight into his philosophy and how he managed to overcome his disabilities.The book was released for the Asian market in April by Blacksmith Books in Hong Kong with the subtitle “The true story of Alain Robert, the real-life Spiderman” (ISBN 9789889979928). In September it was released by Maverick House Publishers in the UK for the English language market across Europe. This edition has the subtitle “The Story of the Human Spider” (ISBN 9781905379552).
There is an award-winning 52-minute documentary about Robert titled ''The Wall Crawler'' by Director/Producer Julie Cohen, released in 1998.
The Channel 4 series Cutting Edge covered Robert in an episode entitled ''The Human Spider'' in April 2008.
References
External links
See also
Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:People from Digoin Category:French rock climbers Category:Urban climbers Category:Free soloists Category:French environmentalists Category:French stunt performers
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| name | Lilli Palmer |
|---|---|
| birthname | Lilli Marie Peiser |
| birth date | May 24, 1914 |
| birth place | Posen, Prussia, Germany |
| death date | January 27, 1986 |
| death place | Los Angeles |
| spouse | Rex Harrison (1943–1957) }} |
Life and career
Palmer, who took her surname from an English actress she admired, was one of three daughters born to Dr. Alfred Peiser, a German Jewish surgeon, and Rose Lissman, an Austrian Jewish stage actress in Posen, Prussia, Germany (now Poznań, Poland). When Lilli was four her family moved to Berlin-Charlottenburg. She studied drama in Berlin before fleeing to Paris in 1933 following the Nazi takeover. While performing in cabarets, she attracted the attention of British talent scouts and was offered a contract by the Gaumont Film Company. She made her screen debut in ''Crime Unlimited'' (1935) and appeared in British films for the next decade.In 1943, she married actor Rex Harrison and followed him to Hollywood in 1945. She signed with Warner Brothers and appeared in several films, notably ''Cloak and Dagger'' (1946) and ''Body and Soul'' (1947). She also periodically appeared in stage plays as well as hosting her own television series in 1951. Harrison and Palmer appeared together in the hit Broadway play ''Bell, Book and Candle'' in the early 50s and later starred in the film version of ''The Four Poster'' (1952), which was based on the award-winning Broadway play of the same name, written by Jan de Hartog. She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in 1953 for ''The Four Poster''. Harrison and Palmer divorced in 1956; they had one son, Carey Harrison, born in 1944. During the marriage, Harrison had many affairs, including one with Carole Landis, who committed suicide in 1948 in the wake of their failed relationship.
Palmer returned to Germany in 1954 where she played roles in many films and television productions. She also continued to play both leading and supporting parts in the U.S. and abroad. In 1957, she won the Deutscher Filmpreis for Best Actress for her portrayal of Anna Anderson in ''Is Anna Anderson Anastasia?''. She starred opposite William Holden in ''The Counterfeit Traitor'' (1962), an espionage thriller based on fact, and opposite Robert Taylor in another true World War II story, Disney's ''Miracle of the White Stallions'' (1963). On the small screen, in 1974 she starred as Manouche Roget in the six-part television drama series ''The Zoo Gang'', about a group of former underground freedom fighters from World War II, with Brian Keith, Sir John Mills, and Barry Morse.
A talented writer, Palmer published a memoir, ''Change Lobsters and Dance'', in 1975. Reminiscences by Vivian Matalon and Noël Coward (Matalon directed Palmer in the premiere production of Coward's play ''Suite in Three Keys'' in 1966; see ''A Song at Twilight'') suggest that Palmer was not always the patient and reasonable person she represented herself as being in this autobiography. She wrote a full-length work of fiction presented as a novel rather than a memoir, ''The Red Raven'' in 1978.
Palmer was married to Argentine actor Carlos Thompson from 1957 until her death in Los Angeles from cancer in 1986 at the age of 71.
Lilli Palmer is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.
Awards
Partial filmography
References
External links
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| name | Charlotte Gainsbourg |
|---|---|
| background | solo_singer |
| birth name | Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg |
| born | July 21, 1971London, UK |
| origin | Paris, France |
| genre | French pop |
| occupation | actress, singer-songwriter |
| years active | 1986–present |
| label | Phonogram Records, Atlantic Records, Because Music, Vice Recordings |
| parents | Serge Gainsbourg (father)Jane Birkin (mother) }} |
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg (born 21 July 1971) is an English-French actress and singer-songwriter. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult (''5:55'' and ''IRM'') to commercial and critical success. Gainsbourg has also appeared in many films, including several directed by Lars von Trier, and has received both a César Award and the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award. She is the daughter of English actress Jane Birkin and French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg.
Personal life
Gainsbourg was born in London to Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg and was raised in Paris. Her maternal grandmother was actress Judy Campbell and her uncle is the screenwriter Andrew Birkin, who directed her in ''The Cement Garden''. She attended École Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel in Paris.Gainsbourg's longtime partner is French-Israeli actor/director Yvan Attal, with whom she has three children, Ben (born on 12 June 1997), Alice (born on 8 November 2002) and Joe (born on 16 July 2011).
On 5 September 2007, Gainsbourg was rushed to a Paris hospital where she underwent surgery for a cerebral hemorrhage. She had been experiencing headaches since a minor waterskiing accident in the United States several weeks prior.
Career
Acting
Gainsbourg made her motion picture debut playing Catherine Deneuve's daughter in the film ''Paroles et musique'' (1984). In 1986, Gainsbourg won a César Award for "Most Promising Actress" for ''L'effrontée'', and, in 2000, she won "Best Supporting Actress" for the film ''La Bûche''.In 1993, Gainsbourg made her English speaking debut in ''The Cement Garden'', written and directed by her uncle, Andrew Birkin. She made her stage debut in 1994 in David Mamet's ''Oleanna'' at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse. In 1996, Gainsbourg starred as the title character in ''Jane Eyre'', a film adaption of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel.
In 2006, Gainsbourg appeared alongside Gael García Bernal in Michel Gondry's ''La Science des rêves'' (''The Science of Sleep''). In 2007, she appeared as Claire in the Todd Haynes-directed Bob Dylan biopic ''I'm Not There'', also contributing a cover of the Dylan song "Just Like a Woman" to the film soundtrack.
In 2009, she won the award for Best Actress at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for the film ''Antichrist''.
Gainsbourg has finished filming an French/Australian production, ''The Tree'' scheduled for a 2010 release. Her next project will be the Lars von Trier science fiction disaster film, ''Melancholia''. In late December she will begin filming an adaptation of Alfred de Musset's ''La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle''. She will star alongside the British musician Pete Doherty.
Music
Gainsbourg made her musical debut with her father on the song "Lemon Incest" in 1984. Two years later, she released her debut album ''Charlotte for Ever'', which was produced by her father.In 2000, Gainsbourg was featured on the Madonna album ''Music'' on the track "What It Feels Like For A Girl". There is a lengthy spoken intro by Gainsbourg, taken from the film ''The Cement Garden'', which inspired the title of the song. The track was further remixed for the single version of this song in 2001, with Gainsbourg's ''The Cement Garden'' speech repeated during the song.
In 2004, she sang a duet with French pop star Étienne Daho on his single "If".
In 2006, Gainsbourg released her second album ''5:55'' to critical acclaim and commercial success, reaching the top spot on the French charts and achieving platinum status in the country. In the UK, the album was moderately successful, reaching #78 (The single "The Songs That We Sing" only made #129).
In late 2009, Gainsbourg released her third studio album, ''IRM'', which was produced by Beck. One of the influential factors in the album's creative process was her time spent filming ''Antichrist''. Gainsbourg's head injury in 2007 influenced the title of the album "IRM", an abbreviation for the French translation of "magnetic resonance imaging". While receiving a brain scan, she began to think about music. "When I was inside that machine," she said, "it was an escape to think about music. It's rhythm. It was very chaotic."
Her song "Heaven Can Wait" was chosen as the Starbucks iTunes Pick of the Week on 2 March 2010.
Her song "Trick Pony" appeared at the beginning of the ''Grey's Anatomy'' episode "Perfect Little Accident" (Season 6, Episode 16 / airdate: 25 February 2010). "Trick Pony" is also featured in the FIFA 11 soundtrack.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1984 | ''Paroles et musique'' | Charlotte Marker | |
| ''La tentation d'Isabelle'' | L'enfant | ||
| ''L'Effrontée'' | Charlotte Castang | César Award for Most Promising Actress | |
| 1986 | Charlotte | Serge Gainsbourg film | |
| Lucy | aka ''Kung-fu master!'' | ||
| ''Jane B. par Agnès V.'' | La fille de J. | Agnès Varda film | |
| ''The Little Thief'' | Janine Castang | aka ''La petite voleuse'' | |
| 1990 | Matilda | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani film | |
| ''Merci la vie'' | Camille Pelleveau | ||
| ''Aux yeux du monde'' | Juliette Mangin | Éric Rochant film | |
| 1992 | ''Amoureuse'' | Marie | aka ''The Lover'' |
| 1993 | Julie | Andrew Birkin film | |
| 1994 | ''Grosse Fatigue'' | Herself | aka ''Dead Tired'' |
| Jane Eyre | Franco Zeffirelli film | ||
| ''Anna Oz'' | Anna Oz | Éric Rochant film | |
| Marie | Marion Vernoux film | ||
| ''The Intruder'' | Catherine Girard | ||
| ''La Bûche'' | Milla Robin | aka ''Season's Beatings'' | |
| 2000 | ''Passionnément'' | Alice Almeida | aka ''Passionately'' |
| ''Félix et Lola'' | Lola | Patrice Leconte film | |
| ''My Wife Is an Actress'' | Charlotte | aka ''Ma Femme est une actrice'' | |
| 2002 | ''La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan '' | Voice | |
| 2003 | ''21 Grams'' | Mary Rivers | |
| ''Une star internationale'' | Herself | Short film | |
| ''Ils Se Marièrent et Eurent Beaucoup d'Enfants'' | Gabrielle | aka ''...And They Lived Happily Ever After'' | |
| ''L'un reste, l'autre part'' | Judith | aka ''One Stays, the Other Leaves'' | |
| Bénédicte Getty | Dominik Moll film | ||
| ''Nuovomondo'' | Lucy Reed | aka ''The Golden Door'' | |
| ''Prête-moi ta main'' | Emma | aka ''I Do/Rent a Wife'' | |
| ''La Science des rêves'' | Stéphanie | aka ''The Science of Sleep'' | |
| 2007 | ''I'm Not There'' | Claire | Todd Haynes film |
| 2008 | ''The City of Your Final Destination'' | Arden Langdon | |
| She | Cannes Film Festival Best Actress AwardBodil Award for Best ActressScream Award Nomination for Best ActressChlotrudis Award Nomination for Best ActressRobert Festival Nomination for Best ActressSant Jordi Award Winner for Best Foreign Actress | ||
| ''Persécution'' | Sonia | Patrice Chéreau film | |
| 2010 | Dawn | Julie Bertuccelli film | |
| 2011 | Claire | Lars von Trier film. |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| ''Nuremberg'' | Marie Claude Vaillant-Couturier | Miniseries | |
| ''Les Misérables'' | Fantine | Miniseries |
Discography
References
External links
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