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Vautrin is a character from the novels of French writer Honoré de Balzac in the La Comédie humaine series. His real name is Jacques Collin. He appears in the novels Le Père Goriot (Father Goriot, 1834/35) under the name Vautrin, and in Illusions perdues (Lost illusions, 1837–43) and Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, 1838–44), the sequel of Illusions perdues, under the name of Abbé Carlos Herrera. In prison, he got the nickname Trompe-la-Mort (Dodgedeath), because he manages to avoid the death sentence repeatedly.
By the time the Comédie humaine series begins, Jacques Collin is an escaped convict and criminal mastermind fleeing from the police. The character first appears in the La Comédie humaine series using the name of Vautrin, so he is usually referred to in literary criticism under this name. Balzac was inspired to the character by Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857) a former criminal who later became chief of the Paris police.
Little is known about Collin's early life. From the novels it can be gathered that he is born in or around 1779 and that he worked as an apprentice in a bank; a position his aunt Jacqueline had obtained for him. In the first decade of the 19th century he first came into contact with the criminal underworld. When a young Italian soldier that Collin was interested in committed a forgery, Collin took the responsibility and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in 1810. Several attempted escapes have increased the sentence to 20 years by 1818, when the first novel that includes him takes place.
Wilhelmina (Minnie) Vautrin (September 27, 1886 – May 14, 1941) was an American missionary renowned for saving the lives of many women at the Ginling Girls College in Nanjing, China, during the Nanking Massacre.
Minnie Vautrin was born in Secor, Illinois. She was hard working and spent much of her childhood and teen years earning money to attend college. At 17, she attended Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. She then graduated from the University of Illinois. She began a career in teaching, starting with high school in LeRoy, Illinois.
In 1912, Vautrin made her way to China as a missionary and teacher. During her first few years there she helped found a girls school in Luchowfu. After her first furlough, she returned and helped build and found Ginling Girls College in Nanjing, where she eventually took over as Master of Studies.
When the Japanese army invaded Battle of Nanjing in December 1937, she and the other foreigners in the city, including John Rabe, worked to protect the civilians in the Nanking Safety Zone. Ginling Girls College became a haven of refuge, at times harboring up to 10,000 women in a college designed to support between 200 and 300. With only her wits and the use of an American flag, Vautrin was largely able to repel incursions into her college.
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Actors: Lucinda McNary (producer), Lucinda McNary (director), Lucinda McNary (editor), Joseph Kwong (actor), Eamon Yates (actor), Joseph Kwong (writer), Tera Whitten (actress), Robert S. Benjamin (actor), Richard Poshard (actor), Neal Steiger (actor), Stefan Dobber (actor), Shannon Kwong (actress), Carl Cubbedge (composer), Josh Hunsaker (composer), David Pickett (composer),
Plot: In early December, 1937 the Japanese army invaded Nanjing, China and committed mass slaughter and atrocities against the Chinese people. Minnie Vautrin, an American woman who was the dean of Gingling College organized and proposed the Nanjing International Safety Zone where refugees could come for safety. She courageously stood up against the Japanese soldiers who tried to infiltrate the safety zone and saved many lives because of her actions. This movie, written by Joseph Kwong, tells the story of the courageous people who helped the Chinese during this time. The emphasis is on Minnie Vautrin because of her courage and strength.
Keywords: 3d-animation, atrocity, bombing, courage, fire, invasion, nanjing-china, slaughter, world-war-twoActors: Sanping Han (producer), John Chong (producer), Junichi Kajioka (actor), Junichi Kajioka (miscellaneous crew), Ye Liu (actor), Sam Voutas (actor), Wei Fan (actor), Hideo Nakaizumi (actor), Yuanyuan Gao (actress), Yiyan Jiang (actress), Chuan Lu (writer), Di Yao (actress), Chuan Lu (director), Steffen Wild (producer), John Paisley (actor),
Genres: Drama, History, War,Actors: Deborah Ross (miscellaneous crew), John Getz (actor), Phil Marshall (composer), Bill Guttentag (director), Bill Guttentag (writer), Woody Harrelson (actor), Bill Guttentag (writer), Stephen Dorff (actor), Chris Mulkey (actor), Bill Guttentag (producer), Mariel Hemingway (actress), Jürgen Prochnow (actor), Michelle Krusiec (actress), Rosalind Chao (actress), Pakk Hui (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: "Nanking" tells the story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Japanese army murdered over 200,000 and raped tens of thousands of Chinese. In the midst of the horror, a small group of Western expatriates banded together to save 250,000 -- an act of extraordinary heroism. Bringing an event little-known outside of Asia to a global audience, "Nanking" shows the tremendous impact individuals can make on the course of history. It is a gripping account of light in the darkest of times.
Keywords: 1930s, air-raid, air-raid-shelter, air-raid-siren, airplane, airplane-shot-down, american, american-flag, anarchy, archive-footage