Walk 97 – Musée Bourdelle

Musée Bourdelle
18 Rue Antoine Bourdelle, 75015 Paris, France

The Musée Bourdelle is located in the old studio of French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929). It is an example of Parisian ateliers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was Bourdelle’s active studio from 1885–1929. The museum is open daily, except Mondays. Admission to the permanent collections is free.

Julien Gracq (poete)
6 Rue Armand Moisant, 75015 Paris, France

The literary works of Julien Gracq are noted for their dreamlike abstraction, elegant style and refined vocabulary. He was close to the surrealist movement, in particular its leader André Breton. Gracq was awarded the Prix Goncourt for his 1951 novel Le Rivage des Syrtes (1951), a story set at the border between two fictional Mediterranean countries, Orsenna and Farghestan, which have been at war for 300 years. He refused to accept the Prix Goncourt as a protest against commercial compromising in world literature.

André Reybaz (COMÉDIENS)
24 Rue Falguière, 75015 Paris, France

Actor André Reybaz’s long career balanced television, film and theatre for over 40 years. In 1950 he starred in the writer Jean Genet’s only film, the influential Un chant d’amour, which focuses on the longing desires of a prison guard and two prisoners in a French jail. With his partner Catherine Toth, they founded the Compagnie du Myrmidon, which received the first prize for Jeunes Compagnies in 1949 for Michel de Ghelderode ‘s Fastes d’enfer. Reybaz directed the Centre dramatique du Nord from 1960 to 1970, after which he had a notable five-year stint as a resident actor at the Comédie-Française.

Francine Gerard-Vigneau (PRODUCTEURS ET PRESENTATEURS DE L’O.R.T.F.)
24 Rue Falguière, 75015 Paris, France

Francine Gerard-Vigneau was a producer at Radio Canada in the 1960s with interview shows like Une demi-heure avec…. Later he took up a similar role at France Musique, the French national public radio channel. His programmes and interests often revolved around music, he co-authored several books, including Les compositeurs (1983), and La musique dans la vie Jazz Rock Enseignement.

Le Quintette De Saxophones Français (Guy Romby) – Saxophone
9 Rue Dulac, 75015 Paris, France

In the 1940s Guy Romby was a student of Marcel Mule, one of the greatest classical saxophonists ever. Guy’s father, Paul Romby, had played in Mule’s Quatuor De Saxophones De Paris in the 1930s. Guy Romby led the Quintette De Saxophones Français, which featured fellow saxophonists Henri Bernard, Jacques Bernard, Jean-Jacques Léger, and Michel Gamay.

Jean-Claude Bringuier (PRODUCTEURS ET PRESENTATEURS DE L’O.R.T.F. / REALISATEURS DE TELEVISION)
32Bis Rue Falguière, 75015 Paris, France

Jean-Claude Bringuier was a French documentary filmmaker and producer. After studying law, he became Henri-Georges Clouzot’s assistant in 1949 and then joined television in 1951. Between 1957 and 1962, he and Hubert Knapp launched a documentary series, Les Croquis (Sketches), personal and deliberately subjective, it was a conversation more than an interview, giving a voice to ordinary people. Between 1963 and 1968, he co-produced Le Monde en 40 minutes, programmes for young audiences exploring specific topics.

Jean Fléchet (REALISATEURS DE TELEVISION)
32 Rue Falguière, 75015 Paris, France

Director, producer and writer Jean Fléchet graduated from IDHEC (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques) in 1952. He founded the production company Les Films verts in 1961. As an organizer of the Téciméoc association (Television and Cinema, Southern and Occitan ), he directed L’Orsalhèr in 1980 for cinema and television, the first feature film entirely in Gascon.

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