The styles can vary from abstract to trompe-l ' œil ( a French term for " fool " or " trick the eye ").

In 1896, French magician Georges Méliès accidentally discovered the same " stop trick.

He used another famous trick to prove that French magic was stronger than local shamanism techniques: he presented an empty box with an iron bottom that anyone could lift.

He is one of the bouts, or " ends ", in the French game of Tarot ; taking a trick with these cards has a special scoring significance.

The Germans rejected the French offers because they considered the French overtures to be a trap to trick them into accepting the Versailles treaty " as is " and because the German foreign minister, Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau thought that the United States was more likely to reduce the severity of the peace terms than France.

The Rococo love of artifice led to a rise in appreciation in France for trompe-l ' œil ( French: " trick the eye ") painting.

However, the aliens, having forgotten hand-to-hand combat since it was made obsolete by their advanced technology, are caught off-guard by the angered Englishmen, who mistake the craft for a French trick.

To Slam ( in French, chelem ) is to take every trick in the round.

The French idiom acheter ( un ) chat en poche ( to buy a cat in a bag ) refers to an actual sale of this nature, as do many European equivalents, while the English expression refers to the appearance of the trick.

A trick often performed in conjunction with mouth-blown smoke rings is the French inhale.

His most glorious day remains March 17, 1912 in Turin, where, against Italy, after having arrived at 5 A. M., he scored a hat trick, and the French team defeated the Italians for the first time in their history, 4-3.

Pran continues his self-imposed discipline of behaving as an uneducated peasant, despite several of Phat ’ s attempts to trick him into revealing his knowledge of both French and English.

Today, it is typically understood to be entirely mythical, a European misunderstanding ( or made up ), or an Iroquoian attempt to trick or confuse the French.

:" to trick others, not to be trickt, and to obtain a share of the French subsidies ".

Similarly, the French word for trick is tricoter, which means to tie or knot together.

This French film, set in Italy, is a summertime splurge in shock and terror all shot in lovely sunny scenery -- so breath-taking that at times you almost forget the horrors the movie is dealing with.

Currently Algerian cinema is in a phase of restructuring ; the French-wing is taking the lead over the Algerian one, and many film production are written in French rather than Algerian arabic.

* Animal ( 1977 film ), French film ( L ' Animal ) by Claude Zidi with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

French stage and early film actress Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, ca.

Category: French film actors

As Schub runs off to warn Cora, Fay seeks out Hapgood in his hotel, and the two seduce each other in the style of a French romantic film.

He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent film comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films.

From the film industry, Chaplin drew upon the work of French comedian Max Linder, whose films he greatly admired.

In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.

It is still visited on occasion by fishermen, French Navy patrols, scientific researchers, film crews, and shipwreck survivors.

Jost extended the 1997 studies through his French " Passion 2001 " expedition, explaining the evolution of the ecosystem, and releasing several papers, a video film, and a website.

* The film Carlo Goldoni – Venice, Grand Theatre of the World, directed by Alessandro Bettero, was released in 2007 and is available in English, Italian, French, and Japanese.

The name of Ciby 2000, the French film production and distribution company founded in 1990, is a play on words on DeMille's name, since " 2000 " in French is " Deux Milles ".

* The Class ( 2008 film ) ( Entre les murs ), a prize-winning French film

* Cléopâtre ( 1899 film ), a French short film written and directed by Georges Méliès

Chris Marker (; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012 ) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist.

The film won the 1954 Prix Jean Vigo, but was banned by French censors for its criticism of French colonialism.

Equivalent terms in other European languages: maestro di cappella ( Italian ), maître de chapelle ( French ), chapel master ( English ), kapelmeester ( Dutch ), mestre de capela ( Portuguese ), and maestro de capilla ( Spanish ).

" In a 1969 French television interview with Pierre Desgraupes on the program L ' invité du dimanche, La Scala's maestro Francesco Siciliani speaks of Callas's voice going to high F.

The French maestro Pierre Monteux ( 1875 – 1964 ), who had conducted the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, was hired to restore the orchestra.

Around 1452 he moved to Paris where he served as maestro di cappella to the French court, as well as treasurer of the Abbey of St. Martin-de-Tours at Tours.

In 1699 he relocated to Mantua, where he became maestro di cappella to the inept Charles IV, Duke of Mantua, a pensionary of France with a French wife, who took the French side in the War of the Spanish Succession.

In the 1972 Italian-Yugoslavian adaptation, Il maestro e Margherita, Woland was played by French actor Alain Cuny.

In Morocco, Hicham took part in several concerts and festivals, the most important being “ Le Festival des Oudayas ”, annually organized by the French Cultural Institute ; and the “ Festival of Plucked Strings ”, sponsored by renowned Moroccan-Canadian artist and guitar player Said Laghzaoui, during which Hichammy performed with Ahmet Meter, the Turkish qanun maestro and soloist with the National Turkish Orchestra.

The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.

* 1924 – Georges Prêtre, French conductor

* 1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist ( d. 1832 )

* 1861 – Georges Méliès, French filmmaker and innovator ( d. 1938 )

* 1862 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright ( d. 1921 )

* 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter ( d. 1891 )

* 1894 – Georges Guynemer, French aviator ( d. 1917 )

* 1864 – René Georges Hermann-Paul, French artist ( d. 1940 )

* 1899 – Georges Auric, French composer ( d. 1983 )

One of the key persons who greatly influenced fascism, the French revolutionary syndicalist Georges Sorel was greatly influenced by anarchism and contributed to the fusion of anarchism and syndicalism together into anarcho syndicalism.

* 1997 – Georges Groulx, French Canadian actor ( b. 1922 )

* 1919 – Georges Ulmer, French singer and composer ( d. 1989 )

On 17 March 1649 a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf of the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ) since 1637, landed at St. Georges Harbour and constructed a fortified settlement, which they named Fort Annunciation.

Soon, however, Pei and his team won the support of several key cultural icons, including the conductor Pierre Boulez and Claude Pompidou, widow of former French President Georges Pompidou, after whom another controversial museum was named.

* 1873 – Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter ( d. 1939 )

* 1921 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright ( b. 1862 )

* 1910 – Georges Vedel, French educator ( d. 2002 )

* 1911 – Georges Pompidou, French politician ( d. 1974 )

* 1920 – Georges Pichard, French comics artist ( d. 2003 )

* 1926 – Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter

* 1920 – Georges Marchal, French actor ( d. 1997 )

Georges Bonnet, the French Foreign Minister 1938 – 39. But Ribbentrop emerged as one of the Nazi Party's leading hardliners.

The French Foreign Minister, Georges Bonnet, once asked Ribbentrop that very question.

The French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet acting on his own initiative told the Italian Ambassador to France, Baron Raffaele Guariglia, that France had accepted Mussolini's peace plan.