After dropping out of high school, he followed his brother Richard to France, where he performed with Le Grand Magic Circus, an avant-garde musical theater group.

The historical, theoretical, and socio-political relationships between avant-garde practices in painting, sculpture and architecture had early ramifications in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia.

Julie Delpy was born 21 December 1969 in Paris, France to Albert Delpy, a theater director, and Marie Pillet, an actress in feature films and the avant-garde theater.

Les Nabis ( pronounced nah -) were a group of Post-Impressionist avant-garde artists who set the pace for fine arts and graphic arts in France in the 1890s.

Prominent literary figures such as Arthur Symons loved to keep up with the latest fads of avant-garde France here, and during " the season " sometimes stayed for weeks on end.

He traveled again to France where he was a founding member of COBRA ( a European avant-garde art movement ), and edited monographs of the Bibliothèque Cobra.

Clamoring at his door came anti-Nazi writers, avant-garde artists, musicians and hundreds of others desperately seeking any chance to escape France.

Their sound is a heavy in the old psychedelic sense, basically being a tribute to Germany's Guru Guru, Jimi Hendrix and the avant-garde groups known as ' Rock in Opposition ': Henry Cow ( England ), Etron Fou Lelublan ( France ), Faust ( Germany ), and others.

Working in France, another group of filmmakers also financed films through patronage and distributed them through cine-clubs, yet they were narrative films not tied to an avant-garde school.

In 1952, the Lettrists avant-garde movement in France, caused riots at the Cannes Film Festival, when Isidore Isou's Traité de bave et d ' éternité ( also known as Venom and Eternity ) was screened.

Contemporaries of American pop art, and often conceived as its transposition in France, new realism was, along with Fluxus and other groups, one of the numerous tendencies of the avant-garde in the 1960s.

Fikret Muallâ Saygı ( 1903, Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey-July 20, 1967, Reillanne, France ) was a 20th century avant-garde painter of Turkish descent.

La jeune France developed from the avant-garde chamber music society La spirale, formed by Jolivet, Messiaen, and Lesur the previous year.

Blut Aus Nord (, ) is a black metal band from Mondeville, Calvados, France, which has incorporated avant-garde elements in its music.

Many of his students went to study in Western Europe, especially France and Germany and brought back avant-garde styles.

Artistic creation in the années folles in France is marked by this event, when on this occasion many ideas of the international avant-garde in the fields of architecture and applied arts were brought together.

In France the well-known monthly paper Le Monde Diplomatique has advocated the antiglobalization cause and an editorial of its director Ignacio Ramonet brought about the foundation of the association ATTAC.

Persons who had a notable career in France returned to Corsica to write in Corsican, such as the musical producers, Dumenicu Togniotti, director of the Teatru Paisanu, which produced polyphonic musicals, 1973 – 1982, followed in 1980 by Michel Raffaelli's Teatru di a Testa Mora, and Saveriu Valentini's Teatru Cupabbia in 1984.

* Catherine Cathiard and Frédéric Lemos, managing director of Foncière LFPI, " First cross-border transfers of seat of European Companies in France: the experience of Foncière LFPI ", JCP E n ° 1, January 2009 ( available in French ).

In France, Eyes Without a Face ( 1960 ) continued the mad scientist theme, while in Italy director Mario Bava began his own series of horror films.

His mother, Maud Humphrey, was a commercial illustrator, who received her art training in New York and France, including study with James McNeill Whistler, and who later became artistic director of the fashion magazine The Delineator.

The Train had already begun shooting in France when star Lancaster had the original director fired and called in Frankenheimer to save the film.

In 1981, a couple of Winterstick team riders went to France at the invitation of Alain Gaimard, marketing director at Les Arcs.

** Hollywood film director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.

He went to France in mid-1917 as the director of training and planning for the 1st Infantry Division.

It was invented by French film director Albert Lamorisse and originally released in 1957 as La Conquête du Monde (" The Conquest of the World ") in France.

" He was simultaneously appointed director of the Maison de France, opening the possibility of a future cultural-diplomatic career.

Resentful and disgusted, Ingres resolved never again to work for the public, and gladly availed himself of the opportunity to return to Rome, as director of the École de France, in the room of Horace Vernet.

During this period, Jean-Jacques Lemoine, the legal director of SACEM ( the organization that collects and distributes royalties in France ), froze distribution of Ravel's account.

* 2001 Amélie ( France ) – director Jean-Pierre Jeunet

* 1997 Ma vie en rose ( Belgium, France, GB ) – director Alain Berliner

He made three films in Hollywood, one for director J. Stuart Blackton in England and two in his native France.

The intense political and judicial scandal that ensued divided French society between those who supported Dreyfus ( the Dreyfusards ), such as Anatole France, Henri Poincaré and Georges Clemenceau, and those who condemned him ( the anti-Dreyfusards ), such as Hubert-Joseph Henry and Edouard Drumont, the director and publisher of the anti-semitic newspaper La Libre Parole.

Weygand returned to France in 1925, when he became director of the Center for Higher Military Studies, a position he had for five years.

Time magazine's positive review of the film wrote that director Marcel Ophüls " tries to puncture the bourgeois myth — or protectively askew memory — that allows France generally to act as if hardly any Frenchmen collaborated with the Germans.

A compromise was agreed upon ( although publicly denied by all parties ) whereby Duisenberg would serve for at least four years, upon which the Frenchman Jean-Claude Trichet, director of the Banque de France, would take over.

* Jacques Vendroux ( 1948 – ), sports journalist, director of Sports of Radio France.

Maximillian Oppenheimer ( 6 May 1902, Saarbrücken, Germany – 26 March 1957, Hamburg, Germany ) — known as Max Ophüls — was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany ( 1931 – 33 ), France ( 1933 – 40 ), the United States ( 1947 – 50 ), and France again ( 1950 – 57 ).

They allegedly found saxophonist Didier Malherbe living in a cave in Deià, before film director Jérôme Laperrousaz invited the band back to France to record the soundtrack of his movie Continental Circus.

On the death of Louis II in 1417 it reverted to Savoy, and, although Count René again retook the area for Provence in 1471, it had returned to Savoyard dominance by the start of the 16th century, by which point the County of Provence had become united with the Kingdom of France due to the death of Count Charles V in 1481.

In the wake of Mussolini ’ s declaration of war against France and England on June 10, 1940, he discovered Kafka ’ s The Metamorphosis, Gogol, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner along with French films by Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Julien Duvivier.

* Daval, René, Moore et la philosophie analytique, 1997, Presses Universitaires de France ( PUF ), ISBN 978-2-13-048690-9 ( French )

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

The stethoscope was invented in France in 1816 by René Laennec at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris.

Well known members of the Commission included Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States, who was the Chairperson, Jacques Maritain, René Cassin and Stéphane Hessel of France, Charles Malik of Lebanon, and P. C. Chang of the Republic of China, among others.

* President René Coty ( France )

* August 11 – René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France.

** French General René Cogny and 94 others die in an Air France Caravelle jetliner crash near Nice in the Mediterranean.

* November 22 – René Coty, President of France ( b. 1882 )

* September 7 – René Viviani, Prime Minister of France ( b. 1863 )

* July 29 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France ( b. 1714 )

* Louis XV of France appoints René de Maupeou as chancellor and orders him to crush the judicial opposition.

* René Démoris, Le Silence de Manon, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1995 ISBN 978-2-13-046826-4.

** René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France ( d. 1792 )

Unlike his predecessors, who had rarely stayed long in Anjou, René from 1443 onwards paid long visits to it, and his court at Angers became one of the most brilliant in the kingdom of France.

Jacques René Chirac (; ; born 29 November 1932 ) is a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007.

In 1682, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle had claimed a large territory, including the Chicago area, for France.

Submarine cables are laid using special cable layer ships, such as the modern René Descartes ( ship ) | René Descartes, operated by France Telecom Marine.

* René Dumont, citoyen de la planète Terre, a documentary by Bernard Baissat, co-production La Lanterne / France 3, 105 minutes, 1992 more information

René Nicolas de Maupeou was appointed Chancellor of France and Minister of Justice, Joseph Marie Terray became Minister of Finance, and Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d ' Aiguillon, Minister for Foreign Affairs.

SI member René Viénet's 1968 book Enragés and Situationists in the Occupations Movement, France, May ' 68 gives an account of the involvement of the SI with the student group of Enragés and the occupation of the Sorbonne.

The Republic of Metz often had to fight for its freedom: in 1324, against the Dukes of Luxembourg and Lorraine, as well as, against the Archbishop of Trier ; in 1363 and 1365, against the English brigands under command of Arnaud de Cervole ; in 1444, against Duke René of Anjou and King Charles VII of France ; and in 1473, against Duke Nicholas I of Lorraine.