I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

Sunday New Orleans brunches continue at the Trade Winds but the daily French buffets have been called off.

Poetics of the New History: French Historical Discourse from Braudel to Chartier, ( 1992 )

New History in France: The Triumph of the Annales, ( 1994, first French edition, 1987 ) excerpt and text search

** French Americans and their " New World " regional identities such as:

Louisiana Creole ( also called French Créole ) refers to native born people of the New Orleans area who are descended from the Colonial French and / or Spanish settlers of Colonial French Louisiana, before it became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase.

* 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally, and he felt Bardot was being undersold.

:* New Orleans has multiple celebrations, the largest in the historic French Quarter.

:* New York City has numerous Bastille Day celebrations each July, including Bastille Day on 60th Street hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française between Fifth and Lexington Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Bastille Day on Smith Street in Brooklyn, and Bastille Day in Tribeca.

" Foresight: its Logical Laws, Its Subjective Sources ," ( translation of the 1937 article in French ) in H. E. Kyburg and H. E. Smokler ( eds ), Studies in Subjective Probability, New York: Wiley, 1964.

David Robinson writes that the film's failure was probably due to it seeming too old-fashioned compared to many of the other films released that year, such as the French New Wave films.

As time progressed, English country dances were spread and reinterpreted throughout the Western world, and eventually the French form of the name came to be associated with the American folk dances, especially in New England ( this Gallicized name change may have followed a contemporary misbelief that the form was originally French ).

Colonial Cuba was a frequent target of buccaneers, pirates and French corsairs seeking Spain's New World riches.

Most settlers in the American Mid-Atlantic and New England were Calvinists, including the English Puritans, the French Huguenot and Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam ( New York ), and the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of the Appalachian back country.

Acadian refugees, who largely came from what is now modern-day New Brunswick and Nova Scotia adapted their French rustic cuisine to local ingredients such as rice, crawfish, sugar cane, and sassafras.

This group is often associated with the French New Wave directors who came to prominence during the same time period, and indeed both groups were often friends and journalistic co-workers.

Cecilia Beaux was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest daughter of French silk manufacturer Jean Adolphe Beaux and teacher Cecilia Kent Leavitt, daughter of prominent businessman John Wheeler Leavitt of New York City and his wife Cecilia Kent of Suffield, Connecticut.

The 1666 census of New France was conducted by French intendant Jean Talon, when he took a census to ascertain the number of people living in New France.

The magazine also was essential to the creation of the Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave, of French cinema, which centered on films directed by Cahiers authors such as Godard and Truffaut.

Shooting on location, with smaller crews, would also happen in the French New Wave, the filmmakers taking advantage of advances in technology allowing smaller, handheld cameras and synchronized sound to film events on location as they unfolded.

For their influences the new generation of film-makers looked to Italian neorealism, the French Nouvelle Vague and the British New Wave but combined this eclectically with references to the well-established genres of Hollywood cinema.

François Roland Truffaut ( 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984 ) was an influential filmmaker and film critic, one of the founders of the French New Wave.

French New Wave films and the non-narrative films of the 1960s used a carefree editing style and did not conform to the traditional editing etiquette of Hollywood films.

Like its dada and surrealist predecessors, French New Wave editing often drew attention to itself by its lack of continuity, its demystifying self-reflexive nature ( reminding the audience that they were watching a film ), and by the overt use of jump cuts or the insertion of material not often related to any narrative.

Additionally, Cahiers critics such as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer went on to make films themselves, creating what was to become known as the French New Wave.

From 1955 onwards, the works of directors of the so-called Polish Film School had a great influence on the contemporary trends such as French New Wave, Italian neorealism or even late Classical Hollywood cinema.

The film is also considered to be an homage to Le Samourai, a 1967 French New Wave film by auteur Jean-Pierre Melville, which starred renowned French actor Alain Delon in a strikingly similar role and narrative.

Cocteau's films, most of which he both wrote and directed, were particularly important in introducing the avant-garde into French cinema and influenced to a certain degree the upcoming French New Wave genre.

He acknowledges owing a great debt to the French New Wave and has stated that " the French New Wave has influenced all filmmakers who have worked since, whether they saw the films or not.

A version of Nim is played — and has symbolic importance — in the French New Wave film Last Year at Marienbad ( 1961 ).

NME journalist Roy Carr is credited with proposing the term's use ( adopted from the cinematic French New Wave of the 1960s ) in this context.

The term " New Wave " is borrowed from the French film movement known as the nouvelle vague.

In Europe, Art Cinema gains wider distribution and sees movements like la Nouvelle Vague ( The French New Wave ) featuring French filmmakers such as Roger Vadim, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Luc Godard ; Cinéma Vérité documentary movement in Canada, France and the United States ; Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Chilean filmmaker Alexandro Jodorowsky and Polish filmmakers Roman Polanski and Wojciech Jerzy Has produced original and offbeat masterpieces and the high-point of Italian filmmaking with Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini making some of their most known films during this period.

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The Cinema of France comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad.

Surveying the entire range of French filmmaking today, Tim Palmer calls contemporary cinema in France a kind of eco-system, in which commercial cinema co-exists with artistic radicalism, first-time directors ( who make up about 40 % of all France's directors each year ) mingle with veterans, and there even occasionally emerges a fascinating pop-art hybridity, in which the features of intellectual and mass cinemas are interrelated ( as in filmmakers like Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Assayas, Maïwenn, Sophie Fillières, Serge Bozon, and others ).

French Impressionist Cinema is a term applied to a loosely defined group of films and filmmakers in France from 1919 – 1929, although these years are debatable.

French Impressionist filmmakers include Abel Gance, Jean Epstein, Germaine Dulac, Marcel L ’ Herbier, Louis Delluc, and Dmitry Kirsanoff.

Category: French experimental filmmakers

Besson has been criticized as the most Hollywood of French filmmakers.

Category: French experimental filmmakers

He became interested in European cinema, focusing first on the films of Ingmar Bergman, and then on the French nouvelle vague filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard and, most especially, Alain Resnais.

Resnais is often linked with the group of French filmmakers who made their breakthrough as the New Wave or nouvelle vague in the late 1950s, but by then he had already established a significant reputation through his ten years of work on documentary short films.

In a further irony, after screening the film's final cut, Rey's French was deemed unacceptable by the filmmakers.

His theories about film greatly influenced other filmmakers, such as the French New Wave directors.

The NFB also offers support programs for independent filmmakers: in English, via the Filmmaker Assistance Program ( FAP ) and in French through its Aide du cinéma indépendant – Canada ( ACIC ) program.

" Juneau recommended the creation of a French production branch to enable francophone filmmakers to work and create in their own language.

In 1956, the NFB's headquarters was relocated from Ottawa to Montreal, improving the NFB's reputation in French Canada and making the NFB more attractive to French-speaking filmmakers.

At the same time, because there was no sound in movies, several French filmmakers had their motion pictures distributed in America.