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  2. Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse - Wikipedia

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    Jean-François de Galaup was born near Albi, France. [ 1] His family had been ennobled in 1558. [ 2] Lapérouse studied in a Jesuit college and joined the Navy as a Garde-Marine in Brest on 19 November 1756. In 1757 he was appointed to the French ship Célèbre and participated in a supply expedition to the fort of Louisbourg in New France.

  3. Le Silence de la mer (1949 film) - Wikipedia

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    Le Silence de la mer (lit. 'The silence of the sea') is a 1949 French drama film by Jean-Pierre Melville, [ 1][ 2][ 3] his directorial debut. [ 4] It is based on the 1942 book of the same name written by Vercors (the pen name of Jean Bruller ). Set during WWII in occupied France, the story concerns the relationship of a Frenchman and his niece ...

  4. Le Silence de la mer - Wikipedia

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    90. Le Silence de la mer ( French: [lə silɑ̃s də la mɛʁ], English titles Silence of the Sea and Put Out the Light, is a French novella written in 1941 by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym "Vercors". [ 1] Published secretly in German-occupied Paris in 1942, [ 2] the book quickly became a symbol of mental resistance against German occupiers.

  5. Le Silence de la Mer (2004 film) - Wikipedia

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    Le Silence de la mer (lit. 'The silence of the sea') is a 2004 French-Belgian TV drama film directed by Pierre Boutron, based on the 1942 book of the same name by Jean Bruller (published clandestinely under the pen name "Vercors"), and starring Thomas Jouannet, Julie Delarme and Michel Galabru. The story takes place in 1941 during World War II ...

  6. Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais - Wikipedia

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    Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis. Position held. List of colonial and departmental heads of Réunion (1735–1735) Bertrand-François Mahé, comte de La Bourdonnais (11 February 1699 – 10 November 1753) was a French naval officer and colonial administrator, in the service of the French East India Company .

  7. En el corredor de la muerte - Wikipedia

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    13 September 2019. ( 2019-09-13) En el corredor de la muerte is a 2019 Spanish drama television miniseries, created by Ramón Campos, Gema R. Neira and Diego Sotelo and directed by Carlos Marqués-Marcet for Movistar+, that premiered in four parts on September 13, 2019. The series is based on the same-titled nonfiction book by Nacho Carretero.

  8. La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France

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    La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France) is a collaborative artists' book by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk. The book features a poem by Cendrars about a journey through Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905, during the first Russian Revolution ...

  9. François-Jean de la Barre - Wikipedia

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    François-Jean de la Barre. François-Jean Lefebvre de la Barre (12 September 1745 – 1 July 1766) was a French nobleman. He was tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with Voltaire 's Philosophical Dictionary nailed to his torso. [ 1]