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Le Joli Mai ("The Lovely Month of May") is a 1963 French documentary film by Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme. Beginning in the spring of 1962, just after the close of the Algerian War and the Évian Accords , [ 1 ] Marker and his cinematographer Pierre Lhomme shot 55 hours of footage interviewing people on the streets of Paris.
Le soldat inconnu vivant [The Living Unknown Soldier].La vie quotidienne (in French). Hachette. 2002. Misères et tourments de la chair durant la Grande Guerre. Les mœurs sexuelles des Français (1914-1918) [Deprivation and Torments of the Flesh during the Great War] (in French).
Julien Malland (born 24 October 1972), better known by the pseudonym Seth, is a French painter, illustrator, and writer. [1] [2] [3]A Parisian urban artist, he is known for numerous mural compositions of characters, often children, seen from a three-quarter back view (or rear three-quarter view).
1235. " Ce fut en mai ", or " Ce fu en mai ", [6] (It happened in May) is a French trouvère song, written in the 13th century by Moniot d'Arras. Its lyrics, in Old French, describe how a man sees a knight and a maiden cavorting in a garden. He follows them, and tells them of his unrequited love; they comfort him, and he cries and commends them ...
By August 2011, French Wikipedia was the 7th most visited site in France, with nearly 16 million unique visitors a month (according to Médiamétrie). In April 2012, it had 20 million unique visitors per month, or 2.4 million per day [ 9 ] with over 700 million page views.
The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (French pronunciation: [tʁɛ ʁiʃz‿œʁ dy dyk də beʁi]; English: The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry[1]), or Très Riches Heures, is an illuminated manuscript that was created between c. 1412 and 1416. It is considered a book of hours, which is a type of Christian devotional book or a ...
The Champ de Mai ([ʃɑ̃ də mɛ]; "Field of May ") was a public assembly held by Napoleon on the Champ de Mars, Paris, a large open area near the École militaire, on 1 June 1815. This was during the Hundred Days, the period between Napoleon's return from exile and the restoration of the Bourbon kings following his failed Waterloo campaign.
French Republican Calendar of 1794, drawn by Philibert-Louis Debucourt. The French Republican calendar (French: calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and ...