Annie Le BrunAnnie Le Brun (born 1942, Rennes) is a French writer, poet and literary critic. While still a student, Annie Le Brun discovered the shock of surrealism; She read André Breton's Nadja first, hand copying his fr and the Anthology of Black Humor. Shortly after, in 1963, she met Breton himself, and took part in the activities of the surrealist movement until 1969, upon the dissolution of the group.
Princess Marie-Esméralda of BelgiumPrincess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, Lady Moncada (born 30 September 1956), is a member of the Belgian royal family. She is the half-aunt of King Philippe of Belgium and Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Princess Marie-Esméralda is a journalist, author and documentary-maker. She is also an environmental activist and a campaigner for women’s rights and indigenous people’s rights. Princess Marie-Esméralda is the youngest child of the late Leopold III of Belgium and his second wife, Lilian Baels, Princess of Réthy.
Cours-la-ReineThe Cours-la-Reine, also spelled Cours la Reine (without hyphens), is a public park and garden promenade located along the River Seine, between the Place de la Concorde and the Place du Canada, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It is one of the oldest parks in Paris, created in 1616 by Queen Marie de Medicis. The further extension of the garden between Place du Canada to Place d'Alma is called the Cours Albert Premier. Queen Marie de Medicis, nostalgic for the gardens of her native Florence, created the Cours-la-Reine not long after she began making the Luxembourg Garden (1612-1630).
Benoît LacroixBenoît Lacroix (bənwa lakʁwa; 8 September 1915 – 2 March 2016) was a Quebec theologian, philosopher, Dominican priest, professor in medieval studies and historian of the Medieval period, and author of almost 50 works and a great number of articles. He was born Joachim Lacroix in Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Quebec, one of five children to Caïus Lacroix and Rose-Anna Blais. He studied at Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière obtaining a baccalaureate in the arts in 1936.
Roberto MattaRoberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (roˈβeɾto ˈmata; November 11, 1911 – November 23, 2002), better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art. Matta was of Spanish, Basque and French descent. Born in Santiago, he studied architecture and interior design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, and graduated in 1935. That spring, he journeyed from Peru to Panama and completed surreal drawings of many of the geographical features he witnessed.
MinotaureMinotaure was a Surrealist-oriented magazine founded by Albert Skira and E. Tériade in Paris and published between 1933 and 1939. Minotaure published on the plastic arts, poetry, and literature, avant garde, as well as articles on esoteric and unusual aspects of literary and art history. Also included were psychoanalytical studies and artistic aspects of anthropology and ethnography. It was a lavish and extravagant magazine by the standards of the 1930s, profusely illustrated with high quality reproductions of art, often in color.
Allouville-BellefosseAllouville-Bellefosse is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, northern France. A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some northwest of Rouen at the junction of the D33, D34 and the D110 roads. The church of St.Quentin, dating from the sixteenth century. Chêne chapelle, a 1000-year-old oak tree (the oldest in France). The tree houses two chapels, the lower dedicated to Notre Dame de la Paix and the upper called the Cellule de l'Eremite. The sixteenth-century abandoned church at Bellefosse.
Christian CombazChristian Combaz is a French writer and columnist who was born on September 21, 1954 into a middle-class family in Algiers (his father worked for a French petroleum company). Christian Combaz spent his early years in Bordeaux. His family moved to Paris in 1968 where he attended college at the fashionable lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, a Jesuit-run school in the Trocadero district. He graduated at the Sainte-Croix de Neuilly college among the French aristocracy. Some of his early works have been influenced by this education among the privileged.
Joannes Charles Melchior ChatinJoannes Charles Melchior Chatin (19 August 1847 – 4 July 1912) was a French botanist and zoologist. Joannes Charles Melchior Chatin was born in Paris, the son of the doctor and botanist Gaspard Adolphe Chatin (1813-1901). During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he was an aide-major in the French army. He gained the title doctor of medicine in 1871 and doctor of natural sciences in 1872. In the same year he became professeur agrégé at the École supérieure of pharmacy directed by his father.
Lugné-PoeAurélien-Marie Lugné (27 December 1869 19 June 1940), known by his stage and pen name Lugné-Poe, was a French actor, theatre director, and scenic designer. He founded the landmark Paris theatre company, the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, which produced experimental work by French Symbolist writers and painters at the end of the nineteenth century. Like his contemporary, theatre pioneer André Antoine, he gave the French premieres of works by the leading Scandinavian playwrights Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
