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Marguerite and Armand
Around this time Marker met and befriended many members of what would be called the Left Bank Film Movement, including Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Henri Colpi, Armand Gatti and the novelists Marguerite Duras and Jean Cayrol.
" The narrator learns this copy of Manon Lescaut was a gift from Armand to Marguerite, Armand telling him that she read the story " over and over again ," making notes in the margins and " declar that when a woman loves, she can not do as Manon did.
These were five lawyers: Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Marguerite Élie Guadet, Armand Gensonné, Jean Antoine Laffargue de Grangeneuve and Jean Jay ( also a Protestant pastor ), and one tradesman Jean François Ducos.
The cast included Marguerite Gonzategui ( Didon ), Lucy Isnardon ( Cassandre ), Jeanne Laval ( Anna ), Paul Franz ( Énée ), Édouard Rouard ( Chorèbe ), and Armand Narçon ( Narbal ).
While Ondine was a vehicle for Fonteyn, Marguerite and Armand displayed the excellence of Fonteyn's partnership with Rudolf Nureyev.
The station is named for the revolutionary, Armand Barbès, and the abbess, Marguerite de Rochechouart.
In the book, Dumas became " Armand Duval " and Duplessis " Marguerite Gautier ".
When evidence points to Sir Percy, Chauvelin blackmails Blakeney's wife, Marguerite ( Margaret Leighton ) by threatening to expose her criminal brother Armand ( Edmond Audran ), but Marguerite doesn't believe her husband is capable of being the daring Pimpernel.
The theme of the Lady of the Camellias is a love story between Marguerite Gautier, a " demi-mondaine " (" courtisane " in the original French, i. e., a woman " kept " by various lovers, frequently more than one at a time ) suffering from tuberculosis (" phthisie " in the novel ), and a young provincial bourgeois, Armand Duval.
Armand falls in love with Marguerite and ultimately becomes her lover, convincing her to turn her back on her life as a " courtisane " and live with him in the countryside.
This idyllic existence is broken by Armand's father, who, concerned by the scandal created by the illicit relationship and fearful that it will destroy his daughter's ( Armand's sister's ) chances of marriage, convinces Marguerite to leave Armand, who believes, up until Marguerite's death, that she has left him for another man.
Dumas is careful to paint a favourable portrait of Marguerite, who despite her past is rendered virtuous by her love for Armand, and the suffering of the two lovers, whose love is shattered by the need to conform to the morals of the times, is rendered touchingly.
Frederick Ashton used the sonata for his 1963 ballet Marguerite and Armand, created for Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, based on " The Lady of the Camellias " by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
He was born in Cap Français, St. Domingue ( present-day Cap-Haïtien, Haiti ) to Pierre Dubourg and his wife, Marguerite ( née Armand de Vogluzan ).
Directed by Peter H. Hunt, it starred Douglas Sills ( Sir Percy Blakeney ), Christine Andreas ( Marguerite St. Just ), Terrance Mann ( Citizen Chauvelin ), Marine Jahan ( Madame St. Cyr ), Tim Shew ( St. Cyr ), Elizabeth Ward ( Marie ), Philip Hoffman ( Tussaud ), James Judy ( Dewhurst ), Sandy Rosenberg ( Lady Digby ), Pamela Burrell ( Lady Llewellyn ), Gilles Chiasson ( Armand St. Just ), Ed Dixon ( Ozzy ), Allen Fitzpatrick ( Farleigh ), Bill Bowers ( Leggett ), Adam Pelty ( Elton ), Ron Sharpe ( Hal ), William Thomas Evans ( Hastings ), Dave Clemmons ( Ben ), R. F.
Armand, Marguerite's brother and a secret member of the League, tells her that he is leaving ; upset because he is the only one whom Marguerite feels she can fully trust, she begs him to stay, but he leaves (" You Are My Home ( Reprise )").
Marguerite receives a note from Chauvelin, now standing in the house, who enlists her aid, threatening to have her captured brother Armand guillotined if she refuses (" Marguerite's Dilemma ").
Marguerite finds her brother Armand in prison, and the two console each other ; Armand assures her that The Pimpernel will save them.
The league meets with Percy, Marie, and Tussaud to try to find a way to save Marguerite and Armand.
They find Chauvelin in a town on the French coast, where Marguerite learns her husband's true identity (" Armand and Marguerite Escape Prison ").

Marguerite and is
* December 9 – The first issue of the feminist newspaper La Fronde is published by Marguerite Durand.
In the novel, the courtesan's name is Marguerite Gautier ; in the opera, it is " Violetta Valéry ".
He reflects that Marguerite died alone in a " sumptuous bed " and Manon in the desert in her lover's arms, concluding that the former is worse, for Marguerite died " in that desert of the heart, a more barren, a vaster, a more pitiless desert than that in which Manon had found her last resting-place.
One popular attempt is the Marguerite ( daisy ) positions, two versions of which are displayed on the left and on the right.
Each movement is dedicated to a friend of Ravel's who died in the war, with the final movement dedicated to the deceased husband of Ravel ’ s favorite pianist Marguerite Long.
A popular tourist site on the Atlantic side of the peninsula is Chincoteague Island, Virginia, which ( together with Assateague Island in Virginia and Maryland ) is noted for its herd of feral ponies as described by Marguerite Henry in Misty of Chincoteague.
The film is Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison's documentation of their journey from Angora ( modern-day Ankara, Turkey ) to the Bakhtiari lands of western Iran, in what is now the western part of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province and the eastern part of Khuzestan.
The novel's protagonist is Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, daughter of the deceased Henry II and the infamous scheming Catholic power player Catherine de ' Medici.
Marguerite is the French form of a female given name ( English Margaret, Spanish Margarita ) which derives from the Greek Μαργαρίτης meaning " pearl ").
In Marguerite Yourcenar's Mémoires d ' Hadrien ( 1951 ), the love relationship between Antinous and Hadrian is one of the main themes of the book.
Marguerite St. Just, a beautiful French actress, is the wife of wealthy English fop Sir Percy Blakeney, a baronet.
Like many others, Marguerite is entranced by the Pimpernel's daring exploits.
Meanwhile, Marguerite is blackmailed by the wily new French envoy to England, Citizen Chauvelin.
After Percy unexpectedly leaves for France, Marguerite discovers to her horror that he is the Pimpernel.
* Marguerite, Lady Blakeney, is also named as a member of the League in the book Mam ' zelle Guillotine, but it is not known when she was formally enrolled
Resnais is more often associated with a ' Left Bank group ' of writers and filmmakers who included Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Jean Cayrol, Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet ( with all of whom he collaborated in the earlier part of his career ).
This edition is separated into 4 parts, containing 51, 43, 51, and 21 stories, respectively, for a total of 166, minus two ( part 2, story 35 and part 4, story 6 ), omitted because of their being almost identical to those of Marguerite the Navarre's Heptameron ( stories 30 and 17 ), respectively, though keeping Bandello's dedicatory preface.
The Goose Creek Police Department is housed at the Marguerite H. Brown Municipal Center, along with the City Hall and Municipal Court, and is an active department within the community of Goose Creek.
Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant ( born 22 March 1949 ) is a French actress.

Marguerite and adaptation
The following year's productions were The Sea ( Bond ), starring David Haig, Eileen Atkins and Russell Tovey ; Marguerite, a new musical starring Ruthie Henshall and Alexander Hanson ; Girl with a Pearl Earring, a stage adaptation by David Joss Buckley of Tracy Chevalier's novel ; and Keith Allen in Treasure Island.
* Misty ( film ), a 1961 adaptation of the book Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

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