Marcel Griaule and Michel Leiris are examples of people who combined anthropology with the French avant-garde.

The Afghan Hound features prominently in the avant-garde music video of popular French band M83's, " Set in Stone ( M83 Remix ).

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.

The ideals of the Abbey were derived from the avant-garde French theatre, which sought to express the " ascendancy of the playwright rather than the actor-manager à l ' anglais.

As the most gifted composer of his class and as a leader, with Debussy, of avant-garde French music, Ravel would continue to have a difficult time with the critics for some time to come.

His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse.

Gauguin's posthumous retrospective exhibitions at the Salon d ' Automne in Paris in 1903 and an even larger one in 1906 had a stunning and powerful influence on the French avant-garde and in particular Pablo Picasso's paintings.

Volapük was a French avant-garde band created in 1993 by the drummer Guigou Chenevier, along with Michel Mandel and Guillaume Saurel.

In 1998, Stereolab collaborated with French avant-garde singer and poet Brigitte Fontaine in single " Calimero ".

Thanks to the Swedish collector Rolf de Maré, Hill ’ s work become known in connection with the French avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s.

Octave Mirbeau ( 16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917 ) was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde.

The Fantômas novels and the subsequent films were highly regarded by the French avant-garde of the day, particularly by the surrealists.

It was Buñuel's intention to shock and insult the intellectual bourgeoisie of his youth, later saying: " Historically the film represents a violent reaction against what in those days was called ‘ avant-garde ,’ which was aimed exclusively at artistic sensibility and the audience ’ s reason .” Against his hopes and expectations, the film was a huge success amongst the French bourgeoisie, leading Buñuel to exclaim in exasperation, " What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in something which was basically no more than a desperate impassioned call for murder?

These poets turned to French models rather than either the New Country poets or English-language modernism, and their work was to prove of importance to later English experimental poets as it broadened the scope of the English avant-garde tradition.

Attendance and sales were disappointing, but Courbet's status as a hero to the French avant-garde became assured.

Lettrism is a French avant-garde movement, established in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian immigrant Isidore Isou.

By early 1990, numerous other stations also appeared on the air, including New Channel ( no relation to Nea Tileorasi ) with movies, music videos and talk shows, Channel Seven-X ( with avant-garde programming including foreign films, intellectual programming and a simulcast of French music network MCM ), Jeronimo Groovy TV ( initially a popular music video station that broadcast in Athens, amidst serious interference from other stations ), TeleCity ( a right-wing political television station with news and talk shows ), 902 TV ( owned by the Communist Party of Greece ), Kanali 29 ( a television station with political and cultural programs and a cult following ), and a plethora of other broadcasters, which filled every available VHF and UHF frequency, often broadcasting only for several weeks or months, or with very little programming of note.

He is a lover of avant-garde music and a patron of, amongst others, the French composer Jean-Michel Damase and the Melba Foundation in Australia.

Michel de Ghelderode ( born as Adhémar-Adolphe-Louis Martens, 3 April 1898, Ixelles – 1962, Brussels ) was an avant-garde Belgian dramatist, writing in French.

It was his wife Helen who had an interest in French and avant-garde artists and influenced her husband's collecting tastes.

The third generation was centered on " Young Israel ", a modernist group of poets and prose writers, most of whom are kibbutz members, whose work has been influenced by the avant-garde schools of English and French writing.

Art films were also influenced by films by Spanish avant-garde creators such as Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí ( e. g., L ' Age d ' Or from 1930 ) and by the French playwright and filmmaker Jean Cocteau ( e. g., The Blood of a Poet, also from 1930 ).

The director of the post at Mobile kept an adequate amount of French goods, of a kind to which they were accustomed, to supply the Indian needs.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

This was the preferred method for protein consumption over animal husbandry, as it required much more work to defend the kept animals against American Indians or the French.

Throughout the engagement the French rear had kept up an arbitrary fire on the battling ships ahead.

The French finally acquired the islands through a cunning mixture of strategies, including the policy of ' divide and conquer ', chequebook politics and a serendipitous affair between a sultana and a French trader that was put to good use by the French, who kept control of the islands, quelling unrest and the occasional uprising.

Kidd kept the French passes of the Quedagh Merchant, as well as the vessel itself.

In particular, the two sets of French passes he had kept were missing at his trial.

Goya's involvement with the court of the " Intruder king ", Joseph I, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, is not known ; he did paint works for French patrons and sympathisers, but kept neutral during the fighting.

His enormous stature and political skills kept Congress, the army, the French, the militias, and the states all pointed toward a common goal.

Having kept bonds with the English speakers ( he spent part of his childhood in the United States and usually spoke English ) and with French soldiers in North Africa ( under Admiral Lemonnier ), Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( whose villa " Baobab " at Sanary ( Var ) was opposite Admiral Darlan's villa " Reine "), helped the French Navy to join again with the Allies ; he assembled a commando operation against the Italian espionage services in France, and received several military decorations for his deeds.

During the prolonged Peninsular War from 1808 – 1814 some 300, 000 French troops were kept permanently occupied by, in addition to several hundred thousand Spanish, Portuguese and British regulars an enormous and sustained guerrilla insurgency — ultimately French deaths would amount to 300, 000 in the Peninsular War alone.

Hastily looking at his map, he realises that the French will seize the key crossroads of Quatre Bras, and that they will fight north of there, at Waterloo-later in the film he admits that he saw the battlefield a year earlier and kept it in his mind.

Thomas Chippendale's furniture designs kept the curves and feel, but stopped short of the French heights of whimsy.

During the course of the war, the British imposed a naval blockade on France, which affected trade and kept the French from fully mobilising their own naval resources.

" Embraced by young people who kept returning to see it again, the movie sold 10 million tickets and quickly became what the French call a film générationnel, a defining moment in the culture.

In the end, 17, 000 Prussians had kept 33, 000 badly needed French reinforcements off the field.

Under the latter's weak rule the island suffered considerably from the inroads of various adventurers ; hence in 1386 it placed itself under the protection of Venice, which in 1401 acquired formal sovereignty over Corfu and kept it until the French Occupation in 1797.

A closer watch was kept on the French coast, and effectual means were taken to intercept communication between France and her American possessions.

The Norwegian armed forces, together with allied British, French and Polish forces, kept up an organized military resistance for two months, longer than any other country invaded by Germany, except for the Soviet Union.