Tag: music
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Walk 96 – Porte Dorée
Jean-Claude Pelletier (Piano)269 Av. Daumesnil, 75012 Paris, France French jazz pianist, composer, arranger and conductor Jean-Claude Pelletier began his music studies at the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris aged just ten years old. He studied piano, music theory and harmony at the Conservatoire until 1948. After playing in jazz orchestras and with his own…
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Walk 82 – Le Bistrot du Peintre
Les Players C/O Laurent Dumm (CHANTEURS ET CHANTEUSES)19 Rue Keller, 75011 Paris, France Inspired by the Shadows and Duane Eddy, Les Players were a 4 piece rock ‘n’ roll combo formed by 17 year olds Hervé Roy (organ), Christian Martin (bass), Michel Libretti (lead guitar) and Jean Pierre Prevotat (drums) in 1961. After appearing at…
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Walk 81 – Voltaire
Marc Ogeret (CHANTEURS ET CHANTEUSES)16 Rue Pétion, 75011 Paris, France Born in Paris, French singer Marc Ogeret is best known for his powerful interpretations of political and poetic chanson. In the 1950s he started performing in cabarets, such as Chez Bernadette, Chez Agnès Capri, and La Colombe, on the Île de la Cité. He received…
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Walk 80 – Richard Lenoir
Jean Lescot (COMEDIENS)96 Bd Beaumarchais, 75011 Paris, France Although Jean Lescot played over 100 roles in TV and Film, it’s his exceptional career as a voiceover artist that lives long in the memory. One of his most memorable assignments, with its distinctive syntax, was the French voice of Yoda in episodes I, II, and III…
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Walk 79 – Saint-Ambroise
Claude Richard – COMEDIENS12 Cité Popincourt, 75011 Paris, France Actor Claude Richard made his theatrical debut in 1952 at the Studio des Champs-Élysées in Gaston-Marie Martens’ Le Village des miracles. He spent the rest of the decade in the ranks at the Théâtre Montparnasse and the Théâtre de l’Atelier. The 1960s was a fruitful time…
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Walk 71 – Musée Clemenceau
Clarisse Deudon – COMEDIENNES9 Rue de Passy, 75016 Paris, France Actress Clarisse Deudon studied at the Conservatoire National de Paris, where she won first prize in tragedy and diction. She joined the Comédie-Française in 1942, making her debut in Maurice Donnay’s L’Autre Danger. She would leave the theatre in 1954 to devote more time to…
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Walk 66 – Tombe de Sainte-Marie Eugenie de Jesus
Michel Subiela (REALISATEURS DE TELEVISION)11 Rue de Boulainvilliers, 75016 Paris, France The godfather of fantastical drama on French television, Michel Subiela created the series Tribunal de l’impossible, which was broadcast on the first channel of ORTF from 1967 to 1974. An anthology of fantastic (occult etc) news stories that had hit the headlines, it was…
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Walk 65 – La Maison La Roche (Le Corbusier)
Pierre Gaspard Huit (REALISATEURS DE TELEVISION)25 bis Rue Jasmin, 75016 Paris, France Director Pierre Gaspard Huit studied at the theatre school Cours Simon, where he graduated with a first prize. His early directorial experiences were in Germany, where he had been a prisoner of war during WW2. After the war he worked as an assistant…
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Walk 64 – Jasmin
Jasmin MétroThe station was opened on 8 November 1922. It is named after the French poet Jacques Jasmin (born Jacques Boé; 1798–1864), called the wig-maker poet, whose works in Langue d’oc were the precursor of the Félibrige, the literary movement of Provençal. Chapelle Sainte-Thérèse (Paris)The Sainte-Thérèse chapel is the first sanctuary that was dedicated to…
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