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Walk 50 – Place Édith Piaf
Nadine Santereau (ARTISTES LYRIQUES)54 Rue Pelleport, 75020 Paris, France Operatic soprano Nadine Santereau was known for her musicality and striking performances of authentic personality. In 1956 she appeared at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in Platée, the opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Jacques Autreau and Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d’Orville. It was a triumphant return…
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Walk 49 – La campagne à Paris
Jean-Claude Arnaud (COMEDIENS)1 Rue du Dr Labbé, 75020 Paris, France A fine stage actor, Jean-Claude Arnaud studied at the Centre d’art dramatique de la rue Blanche (1950) then at the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique (1953 – 1956), where he graduated with a first prize. Upon graduation he joined the Comédie-Française, becoming a member from…
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Objet 45 – Les Casely’s Acrobates
Les Casely’s8 Rue de la Bidassoa, 75020 Paris, France Circus duo Les Casely’s were a popular acrobatic act on the variety circuit of the 1940s and 50s. Regulars on the stage of the Casino de Paris, they were a welcome addition to any revue line-up, which often included comedians, singers, dancers and more unusual acts…
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Walk 47 – Gambetta
Jean Le Gac (artist)67 Av. Gambetta, 75020 Paris, France An internationally renowned artist, Jean Le Gac was a key player in the emergence of the Narrative Art movement. Since the 1960s, he has been reporting on the adventures of a painter, whose career could have been his, if great painting had not died with Picasso.…
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Objet 46 – Jean-François Calvé
Jean-François Calvé (COMEDIENS)91 Rue Villiers de l’Isle Adam, 75020 Paris, France Actor Jean-François Calvé studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique, making his debut as a young star in both cinema and theatre in 1947. His debut in the theatre was amongst some of the greatest actors at the Comédie-Française in Molière’s Le Misanthrope.…
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Objet 44 – Belleville
Roger Terrien (Guitare)38 Rue de Belleville, 75020 Paris, France Roger Terrien started his career alongside his accordionist brother Paul in the orchestras around Brittany. After WW2 he moved to Paris and became a guitarist to the stars of the day: Dario Moreno, Richard Anthony, Henri Salvador, Françoise Hardy, and Barbara. Although he was best known…
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Objet 43 – Philippe Drancy
Philippe Drancy (COMEDIENS)100 Av. Gambetta, 75020 Paris, France The defining moment of actor Philippe Drancy’s career was his work in the 1960s with the Compagnie Renaud-Barrault. The private repertory troupe was formed in 1947 to perform experimental productions. By 1962 Drancy was firmly embedded within its ranks, appearing in La nuit a sa clarté by…
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Objet 42b – Philippe Maraire
Philippe Maraire (CHANTEURS ET CHANTEUSES)11 Rue de l’Ourcq, 75019 Paris, France Child star Philippe Maraire released two EPS on the His Master’s Voice label in the mid 1960s. The second of which, Hardi! Les Cancres, is a spin-off of Jean-Charles’s popular book La foire aux cancres. He began his career at the tender age of…
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Objet 42a – Dany Fog
Dany Fog (REALISATEURS DE CINEMA)144, bd Serrurier, 75019 Paris, France Dany Fog was a French director of Danish origin, who first worked as an assistant director during the 1950s on the feature films L’Étrange Amazone (1953), Crime au concert Mayol (1954), Les Violents (1957), and La Môme aux boutons (1958). Fog graduated to the film…
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