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Odette Bosramiez-Jahan (poète)
23 Rue Compans, 75020 Paris, France

Poet Odette Bosramiez, known in literature circles under the name of Odette Jahan, was the winner of two major poetry prizes, the Prix Auguste-Capdeville in 1959, and the Prix Montyon in 1973. The Prix Auguste-Capdeville was created in 1935, and is a former annual prize of the Académie Française. The subject of the poems under consideration must adhere to the theme of “Love of a son for his mother” and not exceed 100 verses. The Prix Montyon is a set of prizes created on the initiative of Jean-Baptiste Auget de Montyon and awarded by the Académie Française. The prize for literature was first presented in 1782 and is still awarded today.

Robert Beaussieux (poète)
2 Rue du Dr Potain, 75019 Paris, France

Robert Beaussieux was the joint winner of the Prix Xavier Briant poetry prize for his work Du mal et du bonheur du jour. The Prix Xavier Briant was one of five Goeland prizes awarded at a ceremony at the Brasserie Lipp in 1947. As a poet his vernacular was described as capricious and reckless.

Christiane Chateau
(ARTISTES LYRIQUES)
10 Rue Paul de Kock, 75019 Paris, France

Opera singer (artiste lyrique) Christiane Chateau made her debut in 1967 at the Théâtre-Maison de la Culture (Caen) in Georges Coulonges’ L’Oiseau sans plume. Reprising her role as Le Rossignol when the production travelled to Paris to perform at the Théâtre Récamier, in the 7th arrondissement. Her soprano voice was heard across France, from Avignon to Grenoble, where she played the lead role opposite Juan Sabate in Le Comte Ory. One of her final performances was on the great stage of the Théâtre du Châtelet, performing Rossini’s opéra-bouffe L’Italienne à Alger.

Marcel Gosselin
(PRODUCTEURS ET PRESENTATEURS DE L’O.R.T.F.)
47 Rue Emile Desvaux, 75019 Paris, France

Pastor Marcel Gosselin was a pioneer of religious broadcasting in France. Unlike their British counterparts, religion is not integrated into the public broadcasting system, and it was Marcel Gosselin who instigated the first French protestant broadcast, Presence Protesrante, on Sunday 2nd October 1955. He would go on to produce the show for another 25 years, and remains its longest serving editorial producer. Originally broadcast on RTF (Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française), it was first called Émission protestante, but changed its title to mirror the French-speaking Swiss program Présence protestante. There is a Marcel-Gosselin Prize named after him, which is awarded to young people who excel in communicating the Gospel through new media (film and video).

Louis Arbessier
(COMÉDIENS)
53 Rue Emile Desvaux, 75019 Paris, France

Actor Louis Arbessier (1907-1998) studied law and worked in the insurance industry during the 1930s before attending the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Marseille. He served in the French resistance during WW2. Arbessier was a busy man in the 1950s, appearing in the films Les 3 Mousquetaires (1953), Michel Strogoff (1956) and played Napoleon III in the 1952 musical film Imperial Violets. He played a police prefect in the 1958 film Les Misérables and was the first actor to portray Maigret on TV (Liberty Bar, 1960), completing the detective theme, he played Commissaire Janvier in the 1968 TV series Les dossiers de l’agence O. He made his final appearance in the 1995 TV movie L’Affaire Dreyfus at the age of 88. His dubbing portfolio included Q in seven James Bond movies, and the voice of Vincent Price in the classic horror Theatre of Blood.

Marco-Béhar
(COMÉDIENS)
11 Rue de l’Inspecteur Allés, 75019 Paris, France

With a 50 year career across the greatest theatres of Paris, actor Marco-Béhar was a familiar face in the 19th arrondissement. Although local residents knew him more as an artist than a thespian. He was well known for his landscapes of the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont and the nearby streets, painted in a half-naive, half-neo-impressionist style. He made his stage debut in 1930 at the Théâtre de l’Atelier in Musse, and took his final curtain call in Amphitryon in 1983 at the Comédie-Française, where he was a resident for almost 40 years (1946-1983). His film roles included Berlingot et Cie (1939) and Rocket Attack U.S.A (1960).

Jeanne/Jane Dorival
(COMEDIENNES)
20 Rue Janssen, 75019 Paris, France

Jeanne Dorival (also known as Jane Dorival) was from a showbiz family, her father was the actor Georges Dorival, who was the voice of the speaking clock in France. She played the lead role of Malvina Carnajoux in the French radio soap opera Signé Furax. A singer of note, at the start of the 1950s Jeanne succeeded Juliette Gréco at the Rose Rouge cabaret in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and appeared in the film Les nuits de Paris. Later in the decade Dorival took to the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier stage in Charles Charras’ adaptation of Don Carlos. Like her father she would be known in France for her distinctive voice, in 1959 she dubbed the French vocals of Maleficent in the Disney film Sleeping Beauty.

Georges Megalos
(Guitare)
10 Rue Janssen, 75019 Paris, France

Born in 1922 to a Walloon mother and a Greek father, guitarist Georges Megalos would go on to play with some of the greatest names in French music. He first fell in love with Jazz in the carefree days that swept through Paris immediately after the war. After meeting jazz violinist Michel Warlop one evening in Pigalle, he was hired to play in his septet and toured the South of France. It was the start of a formidable career. After opening for Charles Trenet in the Salle du Capitole in Marseille, Georges Mégalos returned to Paris, where he continued recording and touring with the greats including Charles Aznavour, Johnny Hallyday, Jean Ferrat, Georges Brassens, Gilbert Bécaud, and Claude Bolling. He left Paris at the end of the 1970s after six years spent in the Bobino orchestra.

Luce Klein
(CHANTEURS ET CHANTEUSES)
1 Sq. du Vermandois, 75019 Paris, France

Singer Luce Klein was at the height of her fame in the 1960s, releasing 8 EPs throughout the decade and starring in Pierre Étaix’s film YoYo. Jean-Luc Godard chose YoYo as one of his top-ten best films of 1965. An accomplished composer and writer, she went on to co-write the music for Etaix’s 1966 film Tant qu’on a la santé. Her songwriting career during the 1960s ran parallel to her own as a singer. Klein penned songs for Patachou (1961), Simone Langlois (1962), Jacques Boyer (1962), Brigitte Bardot (1963), and Jacky Junior (1966). She studied at the Strasbourg School of Dramatic Art and at the Center Dramatique de l’Est in the 1950s. After having made several theatrical tours, she performed between 1958 and 1965 in the cabarets of the left bank: La Colombe, L’Écluse, Le Cheval d’or, L’Échelle de Jacob, Chez Moineau, and le Port du Salut.

José Rivera
(CHANTEURS ET CHANTEUSES)
1 Av. Debidour, 75019 Paris, France

José Rivera was a singer in the ballroom orchestras that kept Paris dancing come day or night. In the 1950s he started as a solo star for the labels Ducretet Thomson and Disques Decca, but soon graduated to the great accordion led orchestras of the 1960s and 70s, led by André Thivet, Roger Pintos and Raymond Boisserie.

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